For leaders and “coaches” in business, education, and today’s “remote-friendly” office environment, meaningful connection with subordinates who need our wisdom and guidance can prove challenging.

At stake is the fragility of productive “face time” with direct reports and key personnel. Since COVID, the tyranny of flattened organization charts, adaptive technology, and depleted emotional reserves tasks even the most self-aware, empathic manager.

As working from home has become normative (despite pushback from C-suites), so too is familiar management hierarchy being “delayered.” Leaders at every level, responsible for more and ever larger teams, pressed to decline legitimate meeting requests from subordinates, are overwhelmed.

Absent sufficient “bandwidth” to provide actionable project an

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