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Managers have more reports and less time. Take control of your manager and manage THEM!

How the remote work environment is affecting your career

remote work environment

This guy slept through manager training

Many receive feedback,
but only the wise profit from it. Harper Lee

Interactions with managers have dropped significantly in the remote work environment. Let’s face it, Zoom and chat are not as effective as a face to face interaction.

Not only do we miss a lot of the body language when communicating online,

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Working from home, managing your manager remotely, and Covid-19

working from home

Working from home

Working from home

Covid-19 has many employees working from home. Because this is a new practice for many, I wanted to share some best practices to ensure success as you work from home.

Working from home isn’t anything new. Folks have been working from home successfully since the dawn of time.

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Scripts for providing feedback to your manager

script for providing feedback

Providing feedback should be approached as a favor given, not an accusation

Scripts for providing feedback

This is the third in a series on the topic of giving feedback to your manager. For most of us, this can be an intimidating conversation because no one wants to upset the person who has influence over their career.

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Take the initiative and have a tough conversation with your manager

Tough conversation

Your team members fly is open. Does that have to be a tough conversation?

The tough conversation doesn’t have to be tough

Last week we discussed why your manager might be difficult to work with. This week’s topic was supposed to discuss scripts to use, but I realized I missed a step prior to the conversation.

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What did I do to my incompetent manager to deserve this?

I have an incompetent manager

Your manager sucks. We have all worked for them. Maybe someone in positional power is an ass and could benefit from feedback for improvement. You may feel your incompetent manager shouldn’t have their role.  We have all thought it at one point in our career and this is OK.

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