What Every Team Needs From Their Manager

The Career Edge™ - by Brize®

The Career Edge™ - by Brize®
What Every Team Needs From Their Manager
May 21, 2026
Brize

Last episode, we talked about what your boss needs to see from you. This episode flips the view.

Whether you lead a team or you're on one, understanding what a team needs from their manager changes how you show up on both sides of that relationship.

In this episode, Leslie Ferry unpacks two of the most common and costly misreads between managers and their teams and what to do about both.

You'll hear about:

  • How your natural orientation, whether you lead with the work or the relationship first, shapes how you land with people wired differently from you. And what to do about it without changing who you are.
  • The altitude difference. How big picture thinkers and detail-needs thinkers misread each other constantly, and what each one actually needs to do their best work.
  • What the gap costs when a manager leads everyone the same way they'd want to be led.
  • The shift from asking "why isn't my team delivering" to asking "am I communicating in a way that lands for how each person is wired."
  • The short game. One question to ask yourself before your next interaction with a team member you find yourself puzzled by.
  • The long game. How The Performance Loop turns a single insight about your team into the kind of leadership that actually develops people.

Experience The Wiring Gap™ yourself — free, about ten minutes, no signup required.

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