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John Espinosa is an educator, dynamic speaker, frontline leader, and podcast host dedicated to serving others. With a passion for helping individuals reach their goals, John is known for his down-to-earth approach and commitment to making a difference.
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Your Team Made A Rule Out Of Something You Said Once (opens the original)
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New manager tips almost never cover this one. Six months ago you said one sentence. You were probably walking out of a meeting, thinking about something else, and you said something like "yeah, let's just run those by me first." You forgot it by lunch. Your team did not. They wrote it down, they told the next new hire, and it is still running today. That is an accidental rule. You made it. You just were not in the room when it got made. This is not about the policies you wrote on purpose. It is
Take A Week Off. Don't Check In. That's The Test. (opens the original)
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How to delegate as a manager gets tested exactly once or twice a year, and most managers throw the result away. You take a week off. You spend the four days before you leave pre-deciding everything, you write the handoff doc, you tell three people to call you if anything comes up. Then you check your phone at the gate, at baggage claim, and nine more times on Tuesday. And you come home and say it went fine, nothing blew up. That week was not a risk you survived. It was the only honest report you
They Were About To Quit. So You Promoted Them. Now What? (opens the original)
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Employee retention breaks the day your best person starts drifting and the only lever you can move fast is a title. You feel them getting ready to go. You do not have a plan. You have a promotion you can get approved in four days. So you give it to them, and it works, and they stay. And then you spend the next year watching the best person on your team turn into somebody you are having hard conversations with. A promotion is a job assignment. That is all it is. It says here is different work and
When Someone Quits, Your Team Isn't Watching Them. They're Watching You (opens the original)
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How to handle employee resignation is the part of managing nobody trains you for. Somebody gives notice on Monday. By Tuesday the announcement is out, their meetings are canceled, and you have a job posting half written in another tab. You think your team is processing the loss of a coworker. They are not. They are watching you, all week — what you say about the person who left, what you do about the hole they left, and how fast you act like it never happened. The week after somebody quits is th
Nobody Disagreed In Your Meeting. That's The Problem. (opens the original)
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How to run a meeting your team will actually be honest in is the skill nobody trains. You run the meeting, you ask if there are any questions, you get silence, and you walk out thinking it went well. Ninety seconds later, the real meeting starts. Two people in a hallway. A group text. Somebody's truck in the parking lot. That is where your team decides what they are actually going to do about what you just said, and you are not in that room. Here is the part most managers get wrong. The second m
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