You are spending a lot of time and energy trying to de-escalate conflict on the team. Your direct reports complain about miscommunication with peers, difficult co-workers who are not prioritizing their requests, and they expect you to intervene to solve many of their problems and have difficult conversations for them.

You want to increase team motivation, so each member has a clear sense of purpose and clarity of their role and responsibilities. Often you find that there is misunderstanding and overlap of who is responsible to complete which task, and this makes it difficult to coordinate and align the team. 

You are conducting performance reviews and career development discussions for the first time, and you are unsure of the best way to have these discussions. You want to provide honest feedback, but you do not want to demoralize the team by criticizing their hard work and effort, as you want to build trust with them as their manager.

You feel overwhelmed as you are in meetings all day and struggling to manage your time effectively. There are often unexpected fires to put out that derail the best planned day, and while you know you should delegate more, it feels like delegation creates more work for you in the end and it can feel faster to do the work yourself.