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If the team is yours to hold

The Manager's Field Guide

Perhaps you inherited a team that has some dysfunction you have yet to pinpoint. Perhaps you made a hire and suddenly your team is somehow fractured.

This guide helps you spot, interrupt, and document harmful conduct on your team through practical actions that are easy to integrate into your flow.

The field guide includes

  • Pulse checks to apply in your weekly meetings and 1:1s
  • Weekly, monthly, and quarterly checks for yourself and for your reports upward
  • Interruption language that corrects conduct without humiliating anyone
  • Documentation that holds up if the situation escalates formally
  • Resources for the “Accidental Manager”, superb in the role, promoted, and given no people-management training

If it is aimed at you

The Target's Field Guide

If you are watching it happen

The Ally's Field Guide