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www. manager dash tools.com. Right folks, on with a show. We are. We always and there's no one on one-on-one's for directs right always and there's no

exceptions today but in most organizations there are plenty of relationships where I say

they're just they're not crystal clear right they're project managers there's other

managers we do admin stuff with other managers, but we don't ever really see them. So it's a little unclear and it makes it messy.

Yeah, yeah, it is. It makes it messy. And in fact, we we get questions I think almost every conference we

get a question about and from clients too well does this person really work for me do I

need to have a one-on-one with them which makes it hard because the boss subordinate relationship is hugely important.

We generally say, I mean you and I have both answered the question as, look, you may have a question,

but usually the directs don't.

They know, right? They know who they think of as their boss.

Now they're wrong sometimes, but generally speaking, they're aware of it.

We define a manager's directs as those folks who would think of you as their primary boss or often it's and but in some cases it's or or that you would write the end of year review for and you'd be the primary

person that would discuss their pay with them provided pay discussions happen at your level in the organization.

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