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How can I help an employee improve their communication skills?
I'm currently a team lead at an IT company, managing a team of 5 software engineers + a PM. Our main role is to maintain and upgrade a SaaS product used by internal and external employees.
We work ...
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How do I manage this difficult stakeholder?
I need to send an update every week on a turn-around initiative to senior management and the working group.
There's a bully in the working group who waits for me to send an update highlighting that ...
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Is what I said to my boss (director) excessive?
I am a manager in the cybersecurity division of the company I work in. I have been in management for about 5 years and am well respected by my colleagues.
This week, one of the cybersecurity engineers ...
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Giving constructive criticism to my boss' boss
I work at a bank in the United States. Every month we have a two hour department meeting and the head of Loan Operations talks first and gives a run down of the past few weeks activities. What bothers ...
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Manager not telling me in advance where I'll be working
I started a new job about a month ago. I'm in the IT department of a medium sized company. They have two offices that are relatively close together. When I accepted the job I understood that I would ...
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Not being reduced the workload
There are around 10 people in my team. We are tech workers and everybody is responsible for their tech area. No two people are responsible for the same area. We work with clients. There are 2 big ...
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Discover all possible stakeholders in a pile of (legacy) systems
I have been assigned a team that seems to have been "abandoned" in the following sense: Hadn't had a direct manager for a long time and has been getting more and more responsibilities of ...
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How should I manage a significantly more experienced technical employee?
For my job for the foreseeable future I will be managing someone else. They are about thirty years older than me, quite experienced technically, and will be doing technical tasks at my direction, and ...
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Boss keeps restricting my work
TL;DR bold text is the important bits.
I work at a small company (<20 people) and I've noticed what appears to be a gradual worsening of favor with my boss. I do programming work primarily now but ...
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Having trouble adjusting to new manager's communication style. Thinking of quitting
I have been working a part time job for several years. From the feedback I have been getting, I have been doing it well. Recently I got a new manager. The former manager was really great. I found that ...
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As the Big Boss does not trust the PM or myself and the project may be in jeopardy, how can we improve the situation?
TL;DR: The Department Director doesn't trust/believe myself or the Program Manager and is actively demeaning (though possibly out of ignorance rather than true malice), and this is putting the project ...
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How to talk to manager to assign a task to someone else
I am working on a task at a software company for two weeks. Now I realize that one of the team members who guide me is too slow or confusing. I am unable to make much progress after a certain amount ...
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Unequal pay for web and app developers with the same experience - How should I approach my boss?
I recently got a great opportunity to work at an American company that sponsors visas. I am currently a web front-end developer, and there are two other developers on the team. One is an iOS developer,...
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Is it the manager's job or the employee's job to set expectations?
Who should set work expectations / goals? Employee or Manager?
Hoping some managers out there can weigh in.
I recently had a performance review that was lacking in some categories and was surprised as ...
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Is it inappropriate to tell my boss that "baby talk" is unprofessional?
My boss is a great guy. Probably my favorite boss I've ever had, both professionally and personally. There is one thing that's very strange about him. At work, he often uses "baby-talk" ...
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