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How teams inadvertently discourage help-seeking behavior

Our engineering team has been working remotely and we hired two junior developers who are clearly struggling but they're not asking questions and when we do check-ins they say everything is fine and I think we've accidentally created an environment where people feel like they can't admit they need help.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Without meaning to, you've built a team where people are afraid to admit they're struggling.

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