Coaching practices for Ask a Product Manager to Be Redirected to Someone Else with More Technical Skills

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• I keep dropping problems on my boss’s desk and waiting for them to tell me what to do, and I can feel it reads as me not owning my work
• We keep rolling out new processes and reorgs to fix this thing and nothing moves the needle
• My people route every little decision up to me, even ones squarely in their own authority
• My team keeps bringing me bare problems and looking at me to solve them, so I end up doing all the thinking
• People drop new "can you reprioritize this" requests on my team all week long and whoever asks loudest or latest wins

Practices that may help

1. Bring a proposed solution when you bring a problem
   Describe the problem and your recommended path before asking for a decision.
   Managing Up: Practical Skills for Working with Your Boss
2. Diagnose the challenge before choosing the response
   Ask whether the problem requires new expertise (technical) or new values and behavior (adaptive).
   Adaptive Leadership, Made Practical
3. Break the advice-dependency loop
   When people come to you for every decision, it signals advice-giving is making them less capable, not more.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
4. Push recommendations up, not problems
   Require reports to bring a recommendation alongside any problem — it’s a delegation practice, not just a time-saver.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
5. Run a single weekly priority-setting meeting
   Replace ad-hoc priority requests with one weekly meeting where the whole team re-sorts together.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
6. Stay curious one beat longer before advising
   Resist the urge to give the answer for one more question — ask what they think first.
   The Leader as Coach: A New Management Paradigm
7. Resist reverse delegation (the "monkey back" problem)
   When a report brings you their monkey, don’t take it — send it back with the next step owned.
   Delegation Levels, Made Practical
8. Establish an explicit delegation protocol for Q3 tasks
   Define in advance who receives which types of urgent-but-not-important tasks — before they arrive.
   The Eisenhower Matrix for Teams
9. Resist upward (reverse) delegation
   Don’t let the task you delegated jump back onto your desk the first time it gets hard.
   Effective Delegation, Made Practical
10. Use delegation as a development tool
    Assign Q3 tasks to team members who are ready to stretch — and treat the learning curve as the point.
    The Eisenhower Matrix and Delegation

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