Stop Managing the Manager Who Won't Manage Their People | Episode 150

Stop Managing the Manager Who Won't Manage Their People | Episode 150

What happens when your biggest accountability problem isn't the underperforming employee, but the manager who refuses to address it?

You've seen it. An employee repeatedly misses expectations, their manager makes excuses, and eventually the problem lands on your desk. Now you're managing the manager AND their employee. Sound familiar?

In this episode of The Leadership Sandbox™, Tammy J. Bond challenges senior leaders to stop rescuing managers who won't manage their people.

We're tackling three leadership realities:

Why you cannot hold an employee more accountable than their manager is willing to.

How empathy without clear standards becomes permission for underperformance.

Why holding people accountable is a manager's deliverable, not an optional leadership skill.

Tammy also shares the questions leaders need to ask when a manager repeatedly escalates employee performance problems instead of addressing them, and how the COMMAND™ Leadership Behavior Operating System makes accountability visible, measurable, coachable, and repeatable.

The question for this week: What are you tolerating that you're also complaining about?

Because sometimes the performance conversation you need to have isn't with the employee. It's with their manager.

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