MOC - Communicating With Your Management

Last updated Sep 4, 2022 Edit Source

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• Episode 83 Episode 84 Brad Pinkston Transitioning to a new manager; Find out how your new boss prefers to be communicated with (improves relationship)
• Episode 172 Evan Oldford Daily Report to management as a shutdown routine (report containing no more than 5 concise points that add insight and could be read while waiting to get coffee at Starbucks) with BLUF (bottom line up front) to ensure no one misses (i.e. danger of missing a project deadline, context of customer CSAT issue, etc.). No manager has complained about too much reporting, and this allows gaining visibility within an organization. Side benefit of de-stressing Visibility Through Reporting
• Episode 45 Career Conversations with Your Management - importance of regular 1-1s and determining whether the environment is right for career conversations to happen, managers as a broker for what’s next (i.e. help find internal role), agree on goals
• Episode 114 Brad Christian Help your boss realize your worth by drawing attention to what you are doing. Let others know too. If you don’t sell yourself, no one will. Brad struggles with getting his people to cheerlead for themselves. He tells his team to make a folder and call it I Love Me. Every time you get an e-mail complimenting you, save all of that to help you remember what you did successfully, and use it to help your managers.

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• Episode 1 Talk to your manager about your aspirations to become a manager
• Episode 42 Ethan Banks implies that you should actually listen to warnings your manager has about becoming a manager. They know more about what management in that organization is like than you do.
• Episode 51 Charlie Nichol’s manager encouraged him to look into leadership/management even though Charlie was a SE and saw himself as someone who should stay close to the technology. Trusting your manager’s instincts. In Charlie’s case, his manager groomed him and allowed him to take on management type tasks.
• Episode 83 Brad Pinkston talked to his manager about his desire to become a manager and received support to actually get the position.
• Episode 115 Jeff Eberhard after 9 months as a VMware SE asked his boss to be considered to lead a new team that was forming and was told no (boss thought the team would take him seriously). Jeff also got feedback from his peers that the move to leadership was a good idea, which he took back to his boss, went through a formal process, and was given the job. Jeff says if you have someone on your team that wants to move into leadership, it makes your job as a leader easier.