What Your Team Won’t Tell You

This manager’s guide shows how to recognize and eliminate the leadership behaviors that kill morale, crush productivity, and drive top talent away.

The workplace is broken—and managers are the problem. Through coaching hundreds of frustrated employees, Tanya Uyigue has identified the toxic management patterns driving people to quit. Employees are exhausted by leaders who micromanage their every move, disappear for months without check-ins, or create environments where speaking up feels dangerous.

The truth is, your team isn’t telling you what’s actually wrong because they’re afraid of being retaliated against, dismissed, or labeled as “difficult.” But their silence is costing you talent, productivity, and profitability.

What Your Team Won’t Tell You exposes the seven destructive manager archetypes that poison workplace culture, and each chapter provides specific, actionable strategies to transform these toxic patterns into leadership strengths. When you create an environment where employees feel heard, valued, and empowered, retention soars, productivity increases, and engagement becomes authentic—not forced.Tanya Uyigue is a coach, speaker, and content creator specializing in career transition and uncovering authentic leadership potential. In 2021, she started her own coaching practice, TanyaUCoaching. She has appeared on WGN Midday News, presented at the Chicago chapter of the National Sales Network, been a panelist for DePaul University’s department of marketing, and spoken at the North American Young Generation in Nuclear annual conference. After earning a bachelor’s in speech communication from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, she has spent the bulk of her career developing and managing career and college access programs for local and national nonprofits.