The areas of opportunity for this employee were clear to me. At a weekly 1:1, I delivered feedback, explained the behaviors I wanted to see, and followed up with an email recap to ensure clarity. It was a hard conversation in many ways— there were lots of dynamics at play, some within my control, some not. While I was focused on the current  situation, the employee voiced frustrations about past leaders and situations they felt were unfair.  I wasn’t expecting the conversatio

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