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Building Trust as a Program Manager: Key Insights from a Challenging Team Dynamic

CalmInterview · 2026-01-11T03:02:18.491131+00:00

Topic: Panel review of Earns Trust response. Panel Consensus: The panel unanimously agrees that the candidate showed basic pragmatic strategies like regular syncs and check-ins for building trust across three teams, providing a solid foundation in ownership and simple alignments. However, they all highlight a critical gap in scaling to complex multi-team scenarios (beyond three groups), lacking quantified metrics, systems thinking, trade-offs, and nuanced cross-functional influence. Mild disagreement exists on the degree of proactivity, with Jordan seeing some while others view it as reactive, but consensus holds on insufficient proof for program manager-level challenges.

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