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A new shiny for your manager toolbox
Consider the following examples: You asked one of your engineers to put together a short list of onboarding tickets last week for your new hire who starts tomorrow and it isn’t done yet. It’s gentler and more receivable than a performance conversation which would be premature at this point unless you have detected a clear pattern (more on this in Caveats, below). Whether this is due to overloaded task queues, a lack of motivation, or undetected blockers, sometimes all you really need is to provide them with some dedicated space and live accountability.
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