Remember: You Are Not a Therapist
Understand how to maintain professional boundaries during one-on-one meetings as a software engineering manager. Learn to recognize signs of staff distress, provide appropriate support, and know when to recommend external professional help. This lesson helps you foster trust while ensuring your role remains focused on management rather than therapy.
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As a diligent, caring manager who is excellent at listening, you may experience your one-on-one sessions turning into therapy sessions for your staff. Although this may be helpful, it isn’t something that you’re trained in. Additionally, issues that belong in therapy sessions are not best placed in your one-on-one meetings. As much as you may want to help, this ...