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Episode 551: Vidal Graupera on Manager 1-1 with Direct Reports

Software Engineering Radio - the podcast for professional software developers

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Manager Surveys - Are You Putting Too Much Pressure on Your Team?

One of the challenges I've seen in manager surveys is that if you set a high bar for your team and really holds the team members to account, then some of the other managers who might be reluctant to give that tough message. People want to learn and grow and they want interesting stuff. So you can't make the game too easy. You have to kind of find that space where it's challenging, interesting, engaging but not so crazy hard that people are just not going to want to play the game anymore.

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