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Featured series · The Instinct Check
The Instinct Check gives you realistic workplace situations and asks you to think before we give you our take. Notice the signal. Ask better questions. Test your assumptions. Make the call.
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The skills between the lines of the job description: becoming a manager, managing up, giving feedback, becoming a true business partner, leading former peers, using AI at work, and more.
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Use AI for the draft. Keep the judgment, the context, and the relationship for yourself.
Your project is stuck waiting on something your boss owes you, and the deadline isn’t moving.
Managing the behavior is the easy part. Understanding the person is what actually changes the outcome.
Someone who usually jumps in has stopped talking. The work is fine. Something else isn’t.
Asking for help isn’t the problem. Asking before you’ve done your own thinking is.
That quiet “hmm” you can’t quite explain is information. Here’s how to take it seriously without jumping to conclusions.
A manager wants to move to formal corrective action. The employee has never been told anything formal. But apparently, they know.
People may forget the goals you hit. They won’t forget what it felt like to work for you.
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