
The 5 most common management challenges (according to direct reports)
We talk about the importance of managers often. In our recent report, The State of High Performing Teams in Tech,…
Mar 10, 2022


The lettuce pact: The ultimate hack for giving difficult feedback
Every manager’s been in a situation when they need to give difficult feedback to an employee. It can be awkward.…
Aug 26, 2021
Topics
- Accountability
- Autonomy
- Building trust
- Career
- Change management
- Coaching
- Communication
- Cross-functional team meetings
- Development
- Difficult conversations
- difficult convesations
- Employee engagement
- Employee goals
- engineering manager
- Feedback
- Goal-setting
- Growth
- Health
- Impact
- Management
- manager mailbag
- Meeting agenda templates
- Meeting notes
- Mindfulness
- Motivation
- New manager
- One-on-ones
- People Leading People
- Performance
- Product
- Progression
- Q&A
- Remote
- Remote manager
- Remote teams
- Remote work
- reviews
- sales manager
- Senior manager
- Skills
- Spinach book club
- Status update
- task
- Team goals
- Team meetings
- Time management
- Wellness
- work


Dear first-time manager…30 leaders share lessons for new managers
It’s no secret that the average manager goes 10 years into their management career without any formal training. Zero. Zilch.…
Aug 3, 2021


7 Meeting agenda examples for better meetings
Why don’t people like meetings? The list goes on: they veer off-topic, they take up a lot of time, they’re…
Jul 28, 2021


How to delegate effectively as a manager
Managers, you can’t do everything alone. 📢 While it can seem difficult to let go of tasks and projects you…
Jul 13, 2021


How sales managers can boost their team’s performance
There are a lot of factors that play into the success of a sales team. Ultimately though, the sales manager…
Jun 22, 2021


Constructive feedback examples: 4-step guide
Constructive feedback is essential to the growth of your team and organization. Yet so few of us are good at…
May 6, 2021


5 Hiring tips from a first-time manager
This year marked the beginning of my journey as a people leader. It was also the first time I stepped…
Apr 25, 2021