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Arrogant , lazy worker considered for promotion
I recruited a person called AG in Asia office.
In the initial year of AG's employment, I encountered significant challenges due to issues related to arrogance, laziness, and a lack of ordinary task ...
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Bosses are simultaneously demanding I document my work, and also trying to prevent me from doing any work
My bosses are simultaneously demanding I document my work while preventing me from doing any work.
I assume they are trying to somehow get around my 3 month notice period. They demand I enter details ...
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How to convince my overseas manager that my new hire is incompetent?
I am a manager in two person office in Asia Pacific (APAC), which is part of a global company that has offices all around the world. I recruited another person so that in my absence support could be ...
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How to best deal with a devious work colleague that is constantly undermining my role?
In my current role, I am responsible for managing several teams, for where I am accountable for their performance and how they work together to deliver work. I am the scrum master.
In one team I have ...
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Fighting back being thrown under the bus
I work for a small company, and I've recently discovered that while talking to the big boss my manager has wrongly blamed me for some issues that delayed our product.
Although I can understand that ...
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Can't stand managers not reading emails and replies
Background:
We work remotely. Our managers are in a different country
I know the best solution is to reduce emails and instead use either Slack or instant messages, but these managers are from ...
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Does the Manager's manager need to know disputes in teams?
I was reading about conflict resolution and I read a good approach, if a situation is considered as a conflict that wont resolve by itself, is to start with the manager calling an informal and private ...
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How do I handle a situation where I'm "stuck" between the CEO and Production Manager?
Summary: Our factory is suffering major issues, our CEO and my manager are in
disagreement about the reasons for it and how to fix it. The CEO wants
me to take his side in this and help the manager to ...
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Accused by the team of "stealing" my role from a colleague: all team members are against me
Two months ago, I was hired as a project and team manager in a multinational consultancy company. I have about 8 years of work experience, but only 6 months as a project manager (I worked before in ...
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How to handle lying and insubordinate employee?
The company that I work for (IT company) has undergone cost-cutting and laying off employees. As a result, a few teams are down to one person, including two of my teams. One of these two, let's call ...
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As a manager - how to handle a conflict between team members that reached a boiling point
Two of my employees were given a big task. They were responsible for splitting the work between them and coordinating the efforts and sub-tasks. The task seemed to be running smoothly for two weeks ...
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Hired as a manager to effect change; existing co-worker capable but lacks 'drive' to learn and build. How to build the relationship we need?
I have recently started a new job, where I am now in essence the Supply Chain Manager for a small company that has several locations across my province (Canada). Two of the people that work for this ...
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How do I get my boss to understand that I won't be able to attend a required session to visit a tranquility retreat?
I'm a 41-year-old single mom of one, with a 15-year-old daughter, Becky (not her real name). Becky has Asperger's Syndrome, diagnosed aged 8. She can't fully live independently and has some issues ...
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Dealing with conflict in matrix management
I'm a technical lead who also line manages developers. One of the devs (lets call her Alice) I manage works in a separate scrum team to the ones I'm the tech lead for. The teams do all work on the ...
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Getting new boss with no experience in the field
I'm getting a new boss (for several unknown reasons I was not promoted to this position, although I have the skills and experience), who does not have any specific experience in the field which he ...
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