Difficult Situations: Solutions for Managers

Learn how to navigate difficult, real-world management scenarios. Get short, actionable advice from two leadership experts.

Introduction

• The tough stuff of being a manager
• React to an employee who disagrees with you

Difficult Situations: Solutions for Managers

• Redirect an employee who constantly points out the negative
• Candor and high performers with limited advancement options
• Stay focused on strategic projects despite daily distraction
• Handling a promotion offer you don't want
• Handling private information you can’t share with the team
• Managing negative and harmful talk within the team
• How to signal you’re overwhelmed but not incompetent
• Effectively disagreeing with your supervisor
• How to respond when an employee asks for a raise
• Reacting if you are skipped in the chain of command
• Keeping track of what your virtual team members are doing
• Reacting when your employee has another job offer
• How to handle another's complaint about one of your employees
• Sharing difficult or unwanted news
• Adjusting after you get promoted from within your team
• Addressing unethical behavior
• Leading a team when others are older and more experienced
• Managing national political discussions at work
• What to do when your boss says you need to be more decisive
• Managing vacation requests when deadlines loom
• Preparing for a pivotal presentation to the executive team