Good one. Always remember, such harsh experiences give you a learning and prepare you for the future for taking up the role of a boss.
From Pakistan, Islamabad
3From Pakistan, Islamabad
This is not a POEM, its a reality in many of the organization at managerial and leads level. Again, its quite common and natural in this fast growing competitive world. There are ways to get rid of this and you need to look at below suggestion.
Individual itself having issues
1) You as an 'Individual' - do a self review (be honest) and identify the list of improvement areas. Take these points and have a 1/1 with your manager and seek his suggestion for resolving it. During this 1/1, make your manager to feel that you are really concerned about his comments/criticism and you are serious in fixing the gaps. Document this meeting invite in an outlook meeting invitation and mutually document it on the performance review system. Keep this 'Review Meeting' every monthl and review it with your manager and document the improvement made. Keep metrics and evidnces
as a supporting document for your side. Metrics might be an appreciation email from clients, resolving any issues, training or sharing your expertise with your peer, document and process improvement etc
2) You are the next immediate competent person to Manager/Lead:-
In this competitive world, 'Job Insecurity and Position Survival' becomes a key factor for one's survival and this will cause manager/lead to find mistake on whatever you do and hide the good. A competitive Manager/Leads must encourage and promote 'Professional Competency and Growth', Unfortunately this is not the case in few organization. To get this fixed, again keep an official 1/1 and talk to your Manager/Lead and have a open dialogue. In this 1/1, make your manager/lead to understand that, you are interested in a career growth from the current position and seek their help to move to other project when such 'open position' exists. This will send a clear constructive signal to your manager/leads that, you are interested in a career growth - but without risking their position, so they will defnitely help you to grow. Sometime, they will be afraid of loosing a competent guy in team and they will treat you honestly and equally and atleast you will get good treatment and good performance review as well.
I hope this helps you to certain level. Nowdays, our HR friends are having many best policies to sort out such conflicts and seek their offline advice to resolve it. Also you can switch to other projects within the same company through an internal transfer and explore this option.
Certain Things everyone needs to understand
a) Politics exists in each and every company and you must learn to deal with it and switching the job must be the last choice before that explore all above.
b) Job Consistency is very important and avoid frequent job switching, learn to live with politics and find a professional competitive way to tackle it.
c) Every organization has its own pros and cons, there is no 100% perfect place to work in this fast world
d) There are very few mid/small companies & large projects within a big organization exists which is politically corrupted from top to bottom, if you are part of such organization, better leave such companies or projects and look for a job change, but sure to du due diligence to check next company is employee friendly with ethical policies and good professional env, check it through your friend source and web articles.
I hope this helps to certain level and in my 16 years leadership experience, I have witnessed many small/mid sized organization which politically diluted - ended up in closure or survival becomes difficult for them due to high attrition. Companies that values Employee as an valuable asset is defnitely taking advantage over the other companies for eg Google in internationaly
I love and believe in below quotes from my CTO and following until now
"Difference between Good Company and Best Company is Leadership"
From India, Madras
Individual itself having issues
1) You as an 'Individual' - do a self review (be honest) and identify the list of improvement areas. Take these points and have a 1/1 with your manager and seek his suggestion for resolving it. During this 1/1, make your manager to feel that you are really concerned about his comments/criticism and you are serious in fixing the gaps. Document this meeting invite in an outlook meeting invitation and mutually document it on the performance review system. Keep this 'Review Meeting' every monthl and review it with your manager and document the improvement made. Keep metrics and evidnces
as a supporting document for your side. Metrics might be an appreciation email from clients, resolving any issues, training or sharing your expertise with your peer, document and process improvement etc
2) You are the next immediate competent person to Manager/Lead:-
In this competitive world, 'Job Insecurity and Position Survival' becomes a key factor for one's survival and this will cause manager/lead to find mistake on whatever you do and hide the good. A competitive Manager/Leads must encourage and promote 'Professional Competency and Growth', Unfortunately this is not the case in few organization. To get this fixed, again keep an official 1/1 and talk to your Manager/Lead and have a open dialogue. In this 1/1, make your manager/lead to understand that, you are interested in a career growth from the current position and seek their help to move to other project when such 'open position' exists. This will send a clear constructive signal to your manager/leads that, you are interested in a career growth - but without risking their position, so they will defnitely help you to grow. Sometime, they will be afraid of loosing a competent guy in team and they will treat you honestly and equally and atleast you will get good treatment and good performance review as well.
I hope this helps you to certain level. Nowdays, our HR friends are having many best policies to sort out such conflicts and seek their offline advice to resolve it. Also you can switch to other projects within the same company through an internal transfer and explore this option.
Certain Things everyone needs to understand
a) Politics exists in each and every company and you must learn to deal with it and switching the job must be the last choice before that explore all above.
b) Job Consistency is very important and avoid frequent job switching, learn to live with politics and find a professional competitive way to tackle it.
c) Every organization has its own pros and cons, there is no 100% perfect place to work in this fast world
d) There are very few mid/small companies & large projects within a big organization exists which is politically corrupted from top to bottom, if you are part of such organization, better leave such companies or projects and look for a job change, but sure to du due diligence to check next company is employee friendly with ethical policies and good professional env, check it through your friend source and web articles.
I hope this helps to certain level and in my 16 years leadership experience, I have witnessed many small/mid sized organization which politically diluted - ended up in closure or survival becomes difficult for them due to high attrition. Companies that values Employee as an valuable asset is defnitely taking advantage over the other companies for eg Google in internationaly
I love and believe in below quotes from my CTO and following until now
"Difference between Good Company and Best Company is Leadership"
From India, Madras
It is a time past activity of lazy and work shirkers. They do not do the assigned job, get a rap from the boss and invent/appreciate such stuff.
Believe me, if you work hard, you will find your boss very friendly.
Moreover, when (if you could) you will be a boss (if you could), the "My Boss" and "I" will swap places. Means you will still be lazy and work shirker.
From India, Chandigarh
Believe me, if you work hard, you will find your boss very friendly.
Moreover, when (if you could) you will be a boss (if you could), the "My Boss" and "I" will swap places. Means you will still be lazy and work shirker.
From India, Chandigarh
nice saying but u need not to worry about anything u need to follow only 2 rules to overcome this situation....
Rule 1. Boss is always right.
Rule 2. When you feel that boss is wrong, refer to rule 1.
From India, Chandigarh
Rule 1. Boss is always right.
Rule 2. When you feel that boss is wrong, refer to rule 1.
From India, Chandigarh
nice saying but u need not to worry about anything u need to follow only 2 rules to overcome this situation.... Rule 1. Boss is always right. Rule 2. When you feel that boss is wrong, refer to rule 1
From India, Chandigarh
From India, Chandigarh
Hi, Very nice poem, but my boss is not like that. kindly learn all activities from your boss it is very useful to you in future become a boss Chithra - MTAB
From India, Madras
From India, Madras
Thats good actually, you can then understand how you should ast and react to your employees. coz you know what it feels........... Enjoy and Learn Zena
From India, Pune
From India, Pune
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