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Explore strategies for addressing underperformance in engineering teams by providing clear feedback and support. Understand how corrective actions help individuals improve skills, build psychological safety, and foster team loyalty. This lesson guides managers in handling difficult conversations and promoting a fair, accountable work environment.
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If you’re like many new managers, you won’t like this chapter. It’s all about failure! It’s all about having to pull that employee aside who—if you’re having regular 1:1s—you’ve come to get to know pretty well and probably even like as a person, and telling them they’re not measuring up. They’re failing! And it’s partly your fault, too—so you’re failing too! Failure to the left of us, failure to the right of us…
In truth, though, corrective actions, when taken in the right light and with the right attitude, provide opportunities for ...