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  • Utilize interviews, skip-level meetings, or anonymous surveys to gauge whether people are feeling anxious or insecure -- and holding back ideas.

    Ron Ashkenas: Taking Risks in Tough Times Ron Ashkenas 2011

  • Then put in the recurring notes that you require for your own rhythm: one-on-ones with direct reports, skip-level meetings, project reviews, mentoring sessions, team off sites, etc.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Ron Ashkenas 2012

  • National Post and Toronto-based mobile game development shop Financial Post, had their podcasters Matt Hartley and Jameson Berkow chat with Gladstone Grant, my boss' boss' or, as we say in Microsoft parlance, my "skip-level manager".

    Site Home Joey deVilla 2011

  • Monitors associate morale periodically, through dip-stick/skip-level meetings, open houses, etc

    CFO.com: Today in Finance 2010

  • Monitors associate morale periodically, through dip-stick/skip-level meetings, open houses, etc

    CFO.com: Today in Finance 2010

  • Do regular skip-level 1: 1s with individual testers

    MSDN Blogs 2009

  • Do regular skip-level 1: 1s with individual testers

    MSDN Blogs anitag 2009

  • And when the time comes, putting you up for a promotion to L63 is the first time your boss will be challenged by your skip-level and by your Aunt and Uncles (your boss's peers) about one of your promotions.

    unknown title 2008

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  • alexz commented on the word skip-level

    "skip-level meetings" "skip-level manager" - sounds like some new corporatespeak.

    May 28, 2017

  • hugovk commented on the word skip-level

    skip-level, n.

    Susan Fowler, 19 February 2017:

    In the background, there was a game-of-thrones political war raging within the ranks of upper management in the infrastructure engineering organization. It seemed like every manager was fighting their peers and attempting to undermine their direct supervisor so that they could have their direct supervisor's job. No attempts were made by these managers to hide what they were doing: they boasted about it in meetings, told their direct reports about it, and the like. I remember countless meetings with my managers and skip-levels where I would sit there, not saying anything, and the manager would be boasting about finding favor with their skip-level and that I should expect them to have their manager's job within a quarter or two. I also remember a very disturbing team meeting in which one of the directors boasted to our team that he had withheld business-critical information from one of the executives so that he could curry favor with one of the other executives (and, he told us with a smile on his face, it worked!).

    January 5, 2018

  • tankhughes commented on the word skip-level

    Earliest citation I found so far was from the 1992 book "A Leader's Journey to Quality" by Dana M Cound. There's a section called "Skip Level Meetings" and this quote after it:

    "The executive should consider making a plant tour following his skip level meetings - after not before."

    May 2, 2022