Out Loud

Managing up · 5 minutes

You're probably doing more than enough.

Your boss just can't see it, and in the silence, neither can you. Here's the one move that gets your work noticed, in five minutes.

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Dana

Direct message

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Dana 3 weeks ago

You're the right person for the Atlas project. Let's get it moving 🙌

Three weeks later

Three weeks of heads-down work. Late nights. And from Dana: nothing. No feedback, no “nice one”, no check-in.

You've filled the silence with the worst story: you're behind, they're disappointed, you're not doing enough. You don't actually know any of that, and the not-knowing is what's draining you.

You open Slack to message Dana. What do you send?

Your turn