Newsletter for managers by Erinn Gomillion
Between the Work and the People
Leaders in the middle carry the results and the relationships at the same time, and the two rarely ask for the same thing on the same day. Each edition takes one moment from that space, looks at what is creating the tension, and offers a practice you can bring to your next conversation with your team.
The Editions
Every edition, newest first.
Each edition looks closely at one moment from a leader’s week. Read the latest, or go back through the ones you missed.
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What to Expect
One leadership moment, looked at closely.
Each edition begins with something a manager or director will recognize from their own week, such as a feedback conversation that keeps getting postponed or a priority that changed twice before Wednesday. From there, the edition works toward what is underneath it and what to do next.
Observe
The moment you recognize
Each edition describes a situation from a leader’s week closely enough that you can see your own team in it. Naming what is happening comes before any advice about it.
Diagnose
What is creating it
The edition looks at whether the cause sits with people, communication, or systems, and how the three affect one another. A missed deadline may trace back to an unspoken expectation, a strained working relationship, or a process nobody owns.
Align
What you can do about it
Each edition closes with one practice you can use in your next one-on-one, team meeting, or planning conversation, matched to the responsibility you actually carry in your role.
Who Reads It
A leadership newsletter for managers who answer for both results and people.
Between the Work and the People is for leaders who answer for outcomes and for the people producing them, often with less authority or preparation than that responsibility seems to assume.
If you have ever left a one-on-one wondering whether you said the right thing, or spent a week absorbing the gap between what leadership asked for and what your team could deliver, these editions were written with you in mind.
- Emerging leaders stepping into responsibility for a team for the first time
- Frontline and mid-level managers leading people while still carrying the work
- Directors and senior managers who lead through other managers
- Leaders who want practical thinking they can use in conversation this week
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