Hubsessed Office Hours: Reporting and Dashboards · Every clip

Join them, don't abandon them

Madelyn Donovan · Wednesday, November 11, 2026

When you answer a stakeholder's question with a question, it can sound like you're handing the problem back to them. In Reporting and Dashboards Office Hours I said the phrasing should make clear you're not "volleyballing" it back, and you're not saying it's their problem. You're inviting them to join you in figuring it out together, "not that you're abandoning them." Josh sharpened it. You're trying to figure out how you can join your client or stakeholder in solving the problem. "I'm not trying to be like, take your boat down the river over there. I'm trying to jump in the boat and say, all right, let's paddle. We're doing this together." The full session: https://www.hubsessed.io/office-hours/reporting-dashboards/2026-11-11