This can be quite stressful though — I do not think the people reporting to me understands how much energy is spent as a manager negotiating with others in order to give the team and team members the most space/maneuverability that is possible.
This can be quite stressful though — I do not think the people reporting to me understands how much energy is spent as a manager negotiating with others in order to give the team and team members the most space/maneuverability that is possible.
Speaking from experience as an IC -- managers do an absolutely terrible job of surfacing what they're working on.
What are you doing to broadcast your efforts? If you don't tell them what you're doing, you can't expect them to know if you don't tell them.
If you do have a team that large, then you need to have a weekly or biweekly meeting with an agenda set beforehand. You can make announcements and possibly have a rotating presentation by somebody from the team about what they've been working on.
If you are managing this many people, you are managing people, projects and comms.