Leadership

What is the best and worst decision you’ve made in your career?

I bring a lifetime of organizational leadership and look forward to participation in this group to share ideas of leadership and to improve the overall approach to leadership in the professional workp...

My direct report informed me that they have depression and are on medication last week. This week they haven’t shown up for work for two days already. They are remote. What should I be considering i...

What's everyone's opinion on anonymous feedback in performance reviews? My new firm does everything anonymous. My last firm only did upward feedback anonymous and downward feedback was always transpar...

My manager (Head of level) gave me feedback that my team where OVER performing and suggested that I was working my team too hard because we are exceeding ALL targets and have been for a while. My peer...

What is something a leader has done that made you immediately respect them way more? I’ll go first: 1) apologizing for making a big mistake that affected me 2) intuiting that I was being mistreated ...

One of my high performing direct reports moved 3 hours away during Covid because my old boss told her she could be remote forever. We learned we’ll be required back in office 4x in Q4 2026. HR & I off...

Do Managers/Directors just not care about career pathing anymore? Are they too busy to exert energy in this? This is 2 jobs in a row now where there is no clarity on what growth would look like *and* ...

I lead an engineering team of ~20 in Central Europe, working with HQ in New South Wales (very hard to find overlap time). The teams struggle with trust, unclear ownership, and async misalignment. Lo...

Hello everyone! I recently completed my MBA and am now looking for a Front Desk or customer service position in the hotel industry or a similar field in Fresno. I have one year of experience working i...

I’m not sure whether my CEO believes his own ____ or is knowledgable but with poor delivery? Can anyone help me?

As a direct report, how can I better work with a very confident, wickedly intelligent, and assertive leader with strong opinions? I’m new to a role and we get along very well, but I find when I commun...

I have a manager who reports to me who is very conscientious and high performing, but needs a lot of hand holding. He is constantly asking for guidance on the most minute details of his job, and it’s ...

I am currently at mid-management level, and started facing the sandwich situation. But there is on particular personal who leads a different vertical. There is a huge behavioural issue with the person...

I get annoyed when my boss moves our 1:1 more than once - especially to the following week. We have it weekly. Is this a sign they don’t care about your growth?/That you’re not a priority? For contex...

I have a question from someone relatively new to management— is there such a thing as too many compliments from management? I naturally like to point out when my team members are excelling and tell th...

have you ever had a day where you literally had 0 obligations and could do virtually whatever you wanted? if so, what did you do?

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Has anyone else ever gone over to a coworker’s desk in the morning to apologize about something that happened the day prior because they felt bad? If so, what was the situation? I’ve been on both sid...

I’m starting a new job at a new company next Monday as a first time manager. I’m a very seasoned (20 year) IT Services Project Manager of complex projects. Plenty of experience managing dotted line re...