u/Substantial-Donkey51

The team lead on my current project loves traveling A LOT. We’ve been traveling almost every week, and the project only started about 6 weeks ago.
I’m thinking about skipping this week’s internal onsite/colocation so I can stay home and spend time with my family.
Would I get in trouble or potentially receive a bad performance review for doing this?
I’m doing my job 100% and have honestly been carrying the team so far. I just don’t really want to travel every single week if it’s not actually necessary.
I’m not the only one who is skipping this week’s internal colocation. One team member has not been traveling at all because she has a little kid.

Experienced hire joined Deloitte a month ago as an SC and looking for advice on whether it makes sense to switch coaches early.

Current setup:

- Assigned coach is a Senior Manager in my same offering portfolio.

- Another Manager (same offering portfolio and same talent subgroup) proactively reached out asking if I’d be interested in being his coachee.

- I may have higher opportunity to work with this Manager on projects.

- I’m also currently working with this Manager on a firm initiative, so we already have some working relationship.

I’m torn because I can see pros to both.

Reasons to stay with current coach:

- Senior Manager may carry more weight for advocacy/career guidance.

- Feels potentially awkward to request a change only one month in.

Reasons to switch:

- The Manager may be closer to my day-to-day and potentially better positioned for staffing/sponsorship.

- Since we’re already collaborating on a firm initiative, there may be a stronger natural coaching relationship.

- Wondering if alignment with someone I’m actively working with is actually more valuable than seniority.

For those at Deloitte, what would you all recommend me to do?

1. Stay with the Senior Manager coach.

2. Switch to the Manager I’m working with.

3. Keep the formal coach but treat the Manager as an informal mentor/sponsor.

Also curious if there’s any political downside to switching this early that I may not be seeing.