This document discusses what employees may hide from or not hide from their managers. It suggests that employees may hide that they are tired of pretending they are not special, or that they are busier than they actually are. Employees do not hide that they will leave bad managers, that sometimes they are not as busy as they seem, or ideas for how they could be more productive if given more time and autonomy. The document advocates for managers to focus on meeting employees' needs as human beings in order to retain them.

2. What your
employees
hide
by kpd

3. The Law of Two Feet
If at any time you are
neither learning nor
contributing, use your two
feet and move to some
place where you can.

4. Who am I?

5. “I’m tired of
pretending
like I’m not
special”
- Charlie
Sheen

6. Just a few of the great books that got us here

7. Who are you?

8. The Boss

9. Team/Tech
Lead

10. Individual Contributor

11. What your
employees
DON’T
hide

12. They leave bad
managers
Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman - “First Break All the
Rules: What The World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”
People don’t
leave bad jobs.

13. We’re not as
busy as we
seem
(sometimes)

14. “Well, I generally come in at least
fifteen minutes late, ah, I use the side
door - that way Lumbergh can't see
me, heh heh - and, uh, after that I just
sorta space out for about an hour…. I
just stare at my desk; but it looks like
I'm working. I do that for probably
another hour after lunch, too. I'd say
in a given week I probably only do
about fifteen minutes of real, actual,
work.”
- Peter Gibbons,
Office Space

15. “If I only had
time, I’d…”

16. We aren’t
into it

17. Where do you see yourself in five years?
Situational vs. Structural Indifference

18. Ego depletion

19. Where do you see yourself in five years?
Situational vs. Structural Indifference

20. Bad News

21. Bean
counting is
devastating

23. We know
ways to be
more
productive

24. We believe
your
deadlines
are arbitrary

25. The annual
review
process is a
joke

27. We are
scared

28. Scared employees
aren’t focused

29. You are
responsible
for our
emotional
well being

30. "Here's a design, code a widget to these specs"
"Create a design for a system that enables these business
processes"
"What kind of systems do we need?"
"What need of the customer does our product need to fulfill?"
"What do we want our company's lasting impact to be on the
world?"
Levels of ambiguity

31. Why, then, do people
leave managers?
“People charged with
ensuring their success
don't care enough to
meet their needs as
valued employees and
human beings.”
https://www.inc.com/marcel-schwantes/why-do-employees-quit-their-managers-heres-the-num.html

32. You are
hurtful

33. Why don’t
you just
<solution>?
Have you
considered
<solution>?

36. You are
AMAZING

37. Show one
Do one
Teach one

40. You’ll have an army...

41. We are
ROOTING
for you

42. Autonomy

43. Cross-teaming

44. Thank you for your attention
I’m kpd
@kevinpdavis