WHo do you listen to? How do you know who to listen to? How do you give them what they want?
2006-06-28 19:14:12 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Business & Finance ➔ Careers & Employment
do what is best for the client. if the project has nothing to do with a client you should create 2 project plans and send them both to each boss as an attachment with a not that reads something like you boss #1 should work with boss #2 and try to consolidate your conflicting ideas.
2006-06-28 19:56:15 · answer #1 · answered by osu_otter 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You listen to everybody. Then, you go to the most junior of all bosses and tell him/her what you have heard from everyone who is higher up in the organization. Then, you point out the specific ambuguities and ask him/her for instructions on how to resolve the ambiguities.
2006-06-28 19:19:57 · answer #2 · answered by NC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Go to the personnel office and ask which boss has seniority over the other, then follow the one with seniority and if the other boss makes a fuss tell them who you're obeying.
2006-06-28 19:21:32 · answer #3 · answered by Zacko 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Explain to each of them what the other has asked for. See if they could talk to each other and decide what is the priority for the project. If you have to listen to one of them, listen to the senior boss.
2006-06-28 19:20:27 · answer #4 · answered by mopargrapeape 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is there a chance you can get the bosses and yourself into the same place and work out what they want from you? That would take you out of that uncomfortable in the middle position.
If that's not possible, try communicating with them by email, copying both of them and forwarding their emails to you to the other person as well.
If that's not possible, decide which boss is more important to your career and try to please that one, unless you can dazzle them by doing something your own way, which is better than what they had thought of.
Good luck. I believe you can use it!
2006-06-28 19:19:57 · answer #5 · answered by LC 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have a meeting with both, and say "We have conflicting requests from both of you, which I cannot resolve. Please decide amongst yourselves what you consider to be the highest priority. Thanks".
Basically, let THEM figure it out. You're not the problem, you're a problem-solver.
2006-06-28 19:19:43 · answer #6 · answered by JM 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i get us all together and ask to define the project objective, time line, budgets, and personnel roles. use words like efficiency and harmony to lower their defenses.
2006-06-28 19:20:00 · answer #7 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sit them down...otherwise somebody's gonna screw you over for the mistake they think you have committed.
2006-06-29 17:09:41 · answer #8 · answered by TM 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
keep quiet
2006-06-28 19:17:53 · answer #9 · answered by gift 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋