Switching Managers

Eugene Polonsky
The Startup
Published in
5 min readJan 27, 2021

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At a recent 1:1, a report who’s moving to a different manager asked me what the experience of switching managers is like, and what he should come to the first 1:1 with his new manager with.

The answer is the same for any new relationship, and consists of three parts, established in that order.

  1. Rapport
  2. Expectations
  3. Filters

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Eugene Polonsky
The Startup

Eugene Polonsky is a 24-year veteran in the IT field. When not writing about management, he runs a team at IMDb, plays with his kids, and writes bad fiction.