Building Peer Relationships - Part 2

The hosts open by naming the central questions about peer relationships. They ask how important relationships with manager peers are, how those relationships can be built, and what can make the important ones stronger. The answer to the first question is plain: peer relationships matter a lot. The discussion follows the earlier topic of No Dropping Dimes and moves into the process of getting started, with pre-wire named as the next area. From there, they focus on the practical support peers may need from one another. The calendar becomes the everyday place where that support can be tested. Managers are told to check whether they can see the calendars of all their peers. The hosts treat calendar access as something that may be missing even when an organization has already asked people to share. A newer manager may have missed the original request because that person was not there when the message went out. So the guidance starts with a simple check: find out who is visible and who is not. When access is missing, the manager should ask for it. The conversation includes a story about a manager who moved to another part of the organization after being promoted. The replacement came in without knowing about meetings the previous manager had already committed to. The hosts use that handoff to show why calendar sharing matters during onboarding. A departing manager should share the next six weeks of calendar commitments with the person taking over. Where possible, meeting sponsors should change invitations so the new manager is included directly. The hosts also describe forwarding invitation emails or sharing a printed calendar when an electronic calendar would make meetings disappear. The closing advice returns to consideration, asking managers to think through the effects their actions have on peers. The final summary places peers among a manager's most important constituencies and connects considerate, not weak, behavior with being remembered when someone asks who should be chosen instead.

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A clear, practical case for treating peer relationships as management infrastructure, with calendar sharing as a real test of peer support.

Peer relationships come through here as a basic management tool, not a soft extra. The hosts move from No Dropping Dimes into pre-wire, peer support, and shared calendars, with the best moment centered on a promoted manager whose replacement is left unaware of meetings already…

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When you are moving on, your calendar handoff can help your replacement see the meetings already promised.

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