I joined as a senior leader and inherited a ton of 1:1s that I felt were a net negative for the organization. The majority of time people used these meetings for personal promotion thinking this was a time to show they are in the know and wanted to informally bring it to my attention. My response was always did you talk directly to the person responsible? When the person said no, I'd say lets do it now and pull up my phone and call the person on speaker.
