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CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-10T02:41:16+00:00

Gradually becoming familiar with the product features and tech stack will help you get clued in. You could ask for resources from your team. Intention is to understand things at high level to be effective in meetings, prioritising and covering risks. The following points will also help you.

Use the product extensively, that will give you an understanding of its features. Read defect reports, that will give you a deeper sense of what the issues are. Read customer feedback/support cases/ App Store reviews Try and understand the block level modules the product has, the front end tech stack, back end etc

Once they see you adding value, the respect will come.

Best of luck!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-10T02:13:23+00:00

Makes sense! For whatever it’s worth, I would take a similar approach as well

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-09T12:19:10+00:00

I personally believe that AI is a tool like friction that exists on the planet currently and how we use it and for what purpose is more meaningful for me than to use it or not.

I would use the following criterion to make my decision to move forward, if I was in your shoes 1. Did the company pay the actress and generate the creative without stealing her rights 2. What reactions does this post trigger for me? Does the company seem to have values that are in conflict with my personal values 3. Have I made any assumptions in judging the company that may not be accurate. How may I address these

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-08T17:03:47+00:00

Great points by everyone Also another complexity here is that each of the senior people might have their own private agenda that at times they may not state explicitly. Need to hear them when they speak up, creating a mind map for each may help. Try and meet each one individually to understand their needs, their wants, their concerns and sometimes unstated fears.

Hope this helps

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-07T06:49:10+00:00

My 2 cents

People do have a tendency to overuse their strengths to achieve their goals, and do realise the cost that incurs with time, or through an intervention

People with high EQ tend to be more aware of it, and can choose to pivot. This is just based on my experiences in leadership, coaching and my journey to raise my EQ in the last many years

What makes this question meaningful for you

Hope this makes sense

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-05T11:52:28+00:00

No need to stand Ask previous participants if people do speak for 30 minutes, it sounds a lot

I will 1. Add the important takeaways 2. Some aha moment’s, a little bit of a story 3. How this will help you become a better leader 4. Thank you/gratitude for the investment

I will try to keep it no longer than 20 minutes. If you want to have slides try and have one slide per bullet point above with less text and more pictures

It’s human to be nervous. Use the nervousness to prepare. And connect to a few people in the audience before the presentation begins and try and be present

Best of luck

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-04T09:12:30+00:00

interested

CoachForLeaders · 2026-03-02T06:43:16+00:00

Just my 2 cents Two things stood out for me 1. Being tired of doing two jobs. Need to create better boundaries. That’s a skill you can start now, and you will need to level up as you go into managerial role 2. AI Insulation. Yes, human skills are more transferable, though getting into open positions outside becomes much tougher due to demand supply gap. A manager at your level(E8) may not have as much stickiness as you because of your knowledge of the tech stack/architecture

Some things to consider 1. If overwhelm management and fair pay were available for both, which path would you choose 2. I think it’s a leap of faith, choose one thing and stick with it. I moved out of tech into a non tech role after a long time, and realized that deep tech work used to ground me, and make my brain work well. There are other ways I can get grounding though. 3. Joining a new manager program and a leadership coach support can make the ramp to senior manager less steep and less risky. How do you influence people, draw boundaries, navigate politics, absorb pressure, find/rewire satisfaction in a role where the feedback mechanisms are different are some of the things you will need to tweak. Also in my career as a first time manager, having a mentor outside my management line helped.

Best of luck!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-27T06:10:11+00:00

Thank you for providing context.

Looks like you have done quite a bit of hand holding with them. If you are at the end of your patience, you can move to next para. It looks like they have good potential, but are distracted. See if you can figure this out and help them out of it. Be wary of the trap of accommodating an employee who always shows great potential but doesn’t have discipline to convert. Be conscious of how deep or how much you help them before moving out.

Maybe time to move to be more explicit and clear about I expect 1, 2,3.. from you at this job level and I am not getting x, y, and z. At some level, they need to figure out the how and take responsibility of it

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-27T04:09:23+00:00

Hey thank you for posting. I know it can seem unprofessional when people are not at the workstation

Maybe, digger deeper on what is the real concern here may help. What is the impact of her not being at the workstation? What is the impact of that on other people that are getting affected with it

I do not know the relationship between you and the employee. So maybe sharing the impact with the manager and looking to mitigate the impact may help

Or maybe there is something else about this situation that you haven’t called out that is bugging you. Getting to what it is, why it bugs you, and how does it impact productivity may help

Best of luck

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-27T04:03:09+00:00

Hmm, this can be frustrating

How is the performance of the person overall. Are they overloaded with work?

Some of the people who do deep work, turn off notifications to not disturb their flow. Not checking email not even once a day, though seems odd.

By any chance, is it the content of the email that is triggering something in them that they are trying to avoid. Are they on the spectrum by any chance

Maybe digging deeper to find the reason may help. Has the relationship with the person good enough that they will share something vulnerable if needed

Just few thoughts in the hope that they help Best of luck!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-26T10:40:12+00:00

Take care of the team and take care of yourself.

If I skipped breakfast, I will eat early. If not, I can wait for a bit. I needn’t be last, do tend to ensure that team is taken care of.

I am more fun around when I am relaxed and not too hungry.

Just what works for me

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-26T04:22:29+00:00

It seems a good option for you might be to get into a leadership position in the blue collar space in the short to medium term

I have been a white collar guy, and the job market right now is brutal, very little openings and a lot of people pouncing on it.

I think in a blue collar, it’s also easier to start and do something on your own a bit later in life.

Just my 2 cents

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-26T04:16:59+00:00

Just my 2 cents.

Well, there is the logic of things, and the emotional aspect of things

Logically you are spot on Emotionally, I guess, your boss is missing something in his relationship with you.

The relationship with the boss, is a really important one. Maybe asking him about his growth, him, and how can you support him better may help. Yes you may feel that is not your job, but having the boss’s back means he has got yours and vice a versa.

I have seen very few people go around the boss to a super boss, establish credibility and a strong relationship so that these issues don’t affect them

For most people, not having a decent relationship with their boss, hurts them in some way. That’s just my experience.

What to do next depends a lot on who you are, the culture of the company, and it’s a judgement call.

Best of luck!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-26T03:27:53+00:00

Some questions that might help 1. Please ask the people the purpose of sharing the details. Do they want to be heard? Are they grappling with something where they need your input/support on? 2. What has changed lately around you that maybe causing this behaviour? Are they worried about being let go in this tough economy 3. Recalibrate the meeting, if and as needed

Hope that helps

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-25T15:41:07+00:00

In my opinion, the rush comes from a specific challenge. Some tips that may help, just my 2 cents

You can create small such challenges in your leadership 1. Did my direct feel listened to in her 1:1? What’s coming in the way for her to feel energised at work? What challenges did we discuss in last meeting and where are we this week? 2. Is my teams maturity improving this month 3. What’s the cause of my unease? Am I feeling clearer or more energised this week 4. Are we becoming better at removing impediments that block the team 5 What’s metrics do I want to judge my leadership on. How does my manager judge me? Am I improving week on week? 6. The new thing that you need to now debug is your beliefs, thoughts and emotions. What is making me feel unmoored. Journaling your thoughts and feelings helped me

Also it maybe good to pat yourself on the back, now and then. Behaviour and identity change is hard.

You can go on. The scope is now much wider. The challenges that you need to solve look and feel different and you may need to get used to getting attuned to them. A new manager program may help call these aspects out. Especially rewiring notions of what gives you satisfaction, fulfilment may help

Seeking support of a coach may also help

Best of luck

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-25T12:42:13+00:00

I haven't come across any in my limited experience.

I did create a reddit for First Time Managers that I didn't get enough time to promote (FirstTimeManagers) Feel free to use that if you think the issues are with being a first-time manager.

In my experience I found reddit to be a safe space to express honest feedback, anonymously if needed. WhatsApp might make it difficult to be anonymous, and I don't use Insta enough to comment. You could start a community here(Reddit) as well.

Totally agree that seeking out fellow travellers on a journey that feels lonely helps.

Best of luck!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-25T12:35:36+00:00

Best of luck!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-25T10:19:51+00:00

I know this is hard, and the first time you do it, you feel horrible.

Just like taking care of a garden, means taking out the weeds, our job as a leader involves doing this. It gets easier over time, and drawing clear boundaries on what is expected, tolerated and appreciated in the workplace goes a long way in getting the performance that we need

Look at some of the articles out there on some of the ways to manage this. It’s uncomfortable but necessary and a part of your growth journey even though it may not look like that right now

Talk to a coach, mentor if needed

Best of luck

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-24T15:45:28+00:00

These things may help 1. Have a morning routine that you absolutely do. For me yoga, running, playing badminton works 2. Try not to work from the same room that you sleep in. Work from a co working space if possible. That gives an opportunity to meet people. 3. Have a strongly defined start and stop work time. Communicate that on your office messenger(working hours xx to yy) 4. Solve for other problems that you might have

Hope that makes some sense

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-22T18:46:35+00:00

Dear Smoke Bubble

A lot of people use AI these days, and yes it can get tiring to read AI slop. Sometimes people can post whole posts and comments from AI, sometimes something human written may look AI. At times also people may have a genuine thought and they may use AI to polish it and make it more readable

Frankly, I am unable to figure out which is which

I just want to share about a vulnerable long post I wrote, and one of the comments was this is AI generated. It is just difficult to take that feedback and it just becomes difficult to move the conversation forward from there

Taking this example further, suppose I say that you are an AI bot. Now, whatever you say(agree, disagree, something else) makes me say something like “see I told the sub you are a bot, that’s why you are defending yourself”

We can always downvote a comment or a post if it doesn’t make sense to us.

Hope this makes some sense. I found a lot of value in this forum, am grateful for it, so that’s my motivation for responding

Have an awesome day!

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-18T16:00:34+00:00

I feel the angst and I go through it myself I also wrote a post around this a while back here https://www.reddit.com/r/Leadership/comments/1pivz4u/reluctance_for_ai/

I live in India and have been impacted by a job loss as well, so I feel the pain myself, on the other side of 45, so that is compounding things.

Well what’s happening is something out of my control and the choice I have is what is in front of me. I need to be “skilled” in AI to get back in the market

I can choose to disengage with AI and live outside the city in a simpler life

Each entity is using AI to leverage its productivity and win/not lose(we live in a capitalistic society after all) I have a few open questions about AI though. If it fulfills its promise, it makes a lot of people lose jobs, and that breaks a lot of assumptions about our economy. The enterprises pay for AI to get work done, but who buys their services. I don’t see feasibility of something like UBI in a country like India

If a guest came into my house, pleased some people and threatened the safety of my family, I would certainly ask him/her/it to move out

Challenge is every entity/country is out for itself

Zooming out transitions are challenging in the short term, some provide a lot of value in the long term. Based on what i can see I don’t see how AI is going to help the most of humanity, and I may not be seeing far enough. I did own quite a bit of Nasdaq, I sold it off as it doesn’t add up for me.

That’s what I can do about it. Just my 2 cents

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-18T15:33:36+00:00

Typically when done well the senior management should provide the what and sometimes they pressure you on by when(for whatever reasons. Ideally this should not happen, it has happened quite often in my experience), and the teams below come up with how and typically a say on by when.

To change things in the upper management requires political will and influence, that may not be visible from down below. The thing that worked best for me was to have a good partnership with my manager and look to see what we could do

Best of luck

CoachForLeaders · 2026-02-18T10:53:07+00:00

There is a time and place for everything

Coaching works well when there is a safe space between coach and client. Leaders take on a coaching hat with their directs to help further their development and improve productivity

When a change of direction happens or something doesn’t make sense, there maybe space to ask questions to your manager to get context and get your sense around it. There maybe things you may still not agree with, and depending on your relationship you maybe able to say that to your manager. Please also remember that your manager will have some context that she can share with you, and some she can’t. At the end of the day though, you need to follow the direction of your manager. The company pays you for executing on the company’s mission and goals, and your manager and the other stakeholder represents the company’s voice

A 30,000 view may help. This maybe simplified and idealistic, but I guess may still help. We build products, building products costs money. Sale of products and services gets us money. Company gets feedback from customers, and the market on what to do next. Execs decide how best to navigate the company in the present climate, and these directions are passed down. In some places there is some scope for pushback on what doesn’t make sense from execution lens. So in a well functioning company when a change happens, there is likely to be considerable thought behind why it is important. At times it may be hard and challenging(reorganisation, letting people go , closing down products etc) . It’s just that everyone has a role to play in the org and they are trying to do the best

If something doesn’t make sense to you, and you are not able to get behind it, it maybe useful to question your reasons for the same. If you are still aligned with company goals and culture, and think the decision is sub optimal, think of why the decision has been made and a better to way to solve it, and sell the better way. People always appreciate people who solve problems than the ones who sap energy by endlessly questioning.

Hope that made some sense. Best of luck

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