When I first thought about expanding my on-line presence, I considered having both a blog and a forum. With some input from others, I decided to focus on the blog first, and here we are. But something is missing.
As a manager, I've always believed that most problems have more than one answer, and most issues can be approached in more than one way. Those of you who have taken an educational program with me know that. In the classroom I encourage you to share your experiences, your perspectives and your points-of-view. Now I'd like to encourage everyone who visits our blog to do that as well. Just hit the comment link at the end of any post to add your thoughts, insights, guidance, suggestions, criticism, praise, what-have-you. Let everyone benefit from your expertise, your perspective and your point-of-view. Not only on what I have to say, but on the issues submitted by others. Like the situation in yesterday's post. Or Nancy's issue to be posted tomorrow. I know she'll welcome your thoughts on her issue.
While comments are always reviewed before they actually appear on the blog, that's simply to weed out inappropriate comments such as sales pitches and profanity. It's generally our policy to pass all comments through to the blog, whether you agree with me or or other readers or not.
Please join us won't you? Feel free to comment on any article, post or comment in the blog. If you are not sure how to comment or what commenting is all about, see our post on Tuesday, February 10.
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
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Dan, I have a problem. I "oversee" a team but I have not yet been officially made "supervisor" or "manager". I am basically the lead person of the area in which I work, I am expected to have the answers to the problems and keep the area staffed appropriately. One of the girls who works in my department only does so 4 hours per week as a float, her home base is another department. Last week we had an issue - when she came in to work in our area she refused to sit at an empty work station, instead she made a fuss because she wanted to sit where someone else was already logged on (that person was not scheduled to be at that station until the afternoon, but since it takes so long to log into the system she had opened up all programs and locked her computer station so she would be ready to work in the afternoon). When I asked her to please sit at the empty desk she raised her voice and ended up walking out to get her manager. To make a long story short, the employee ended up getting her way (the employee scheduled in the afternoon had to come in and shut everything down). Once this was done the part time person proceeded to sit at the empty work station that I had asked her to sit at originally!!! I was infuriated! The air in the department was thick and tense for the time she remained with us. Once she had left for the day it was brought to my attention by another that when she had walked out to get her manager she was bad mouthing me - making comments to the effect of "who does she think she is - she's not the manager - I don't have to listen to her".........how should I deal with this?
Hello anonymous. An interesting question. I just saw it and want to think about it. I will give you an answer in the next few days (as I am currently traveling and doing programs all day)
I also wanted to get this posted in case others have opinions they would like to share.
I would love to see this put into a forum and see the different ways people would approach this, thanks!
I will move it over the weekend, make my comments, and post it as a new issue on Monday February 16.
This issue was posted on Monday February 16 with the title: "You're not the manager." All further comments on this issue should be posted there, not here.
This post remains open for comment on its original subject "I welcome your comments."
Thanks everybody!
Dan
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