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One of the most difficult tasks is reporting to more than one boss, it can be two or more, by nature of work. You may prioritise your work but each boss wants his work or task or project to complete first. The employee is puzzled about what to do.
Life at corporate world is full of challenges and opportunity. There are various rules and regulations in professional world that one has to be followed for proper running of business. It is the responsibility of the employee to follow the decorum of office for smooth running of official work. There are numbers of aspect that need to be handled regularly and reporting to boss is one of them.
Sending reports to boss makes working easy, organized and smooth, but when you have to send report to more than one or more than two bosses, here situation become tricky for the employee. The trend of sending report to multiple bosses is new, earlier there was only one head, now employees have to send reports to multiple executives and department head.
The trends of reporting to more than two bosses are clear influence of globalization in corporate world. There are numbers of MNC’s having their HQ and regional office at different places, it is the responsibility of the employee to keep informed the authority about the latest happening and future plans. Reporting is the form of communication between the employee and authority; it is the regular reporting that helps authority in assessing the situation and plan future strategy for the growth of an organization. Report work as a bridge between the boss and employee. Some time when all your bosses are abroad and each supervising your work with different aspect it becomes essential to manage your reporting with utmost care.
Sending report to more than two bosses could be intricate and if there is any issue between employee and executive or between executive A and executive B, then situation becomes very peculiar for the employee. One of the best ways to handle such situation is to discuss it clearly with your boss, explain it to Executive A that you will handle extra responsibility if he will inform Executive C about your new responsibility and priority and ask executive C if he can put some of her requirements on the back burner.
Another problem that an employee can face in reporting more than two bosses is to prioritizing the delegated task. Ask your boss to set the urgency of each task so that you can meet the deadlines without missing any important task. Send a request sheet to your boss and ask them to prioritize the task and rate every projects priority on a scale of 1 to 5. The request sheets also helped during employee review by providing written validation of all the work she had accomplished and for whom. Use that data to chart the percentage of time employee devoted to each manager and month-to-month workload fluctuations.
Instead of asking orders learn to take decisions, evaluate the tasks, set the priority and try to finish it in given time, it will show your interest for your job and your dedication for the job. Seniors like the employees who take initiative and take responsibilities. It helps in smooth running of schedule.
Though serving numbers of executive is not an easy, but it provides lots of exposure and opportunity within the organization. It gives you chance to learn different working style at a time and how to manage multiple tasks at a time. Sometime you have to choose one boss over the other, depending on your career growth.
If your relationship with either boss is less than stellar, it is advised that you research past business cycles to find circumstances similar to the ones you’re facing. “Two people with opposing viewpoints cannot both be absolutely right. You’ve got to apply your own business sense to the situation and come up with what you think is the best course of action”.
Each executive have different working style and methodology, working with different bosses will give you a chance to learn. Such experience and knowledge you will never gain from books or from universities, practical work experience teaches a lot, if you are new to field learn from other’s experience and broaden your horizon. Face every tricky situation as your new lesson and try to learn from each experience good or bad it will surely help you in evolving as successful professional.
One thing is certain that multi-reporting is not for a long tenure and at the most it will be for 2 years or less. After the period is over you are relieved but with additional knowledge and easy to cope up with any situation. So do not take any hasty decision during the multi-reporting period.
One of the most difficult tasks is reporting to more than one boss, it can be two or more, by nature of work. You may prioritise your work but each boss wants his work or task or project to complete first. The employee is puzzled about what to do.
Life at corporate world is full of challenges and opportunity. There are various rules and regulations in professional world that one has to be followed for proper running of business. It is the responsibility of the employee to follow the decorum of office for smooth running of official work. There are numbers of aspect that need to be handled regularly and reporting to boss is one of them.
Sending reports to boss makes working easy, organized and smooth, but when you have to send report to more than one or more than two bosses, here situation become tricky for the employee. The trend of sending report to multiple bosses is new, earlier there was only one head, now employees have to send reports to multiple executives and department head.
The trends of reporting to more than two bosses are clear influence of globalization in corporate world. There are numbers of MNC’s having their HQ and regional office at different places, it is the responsibility of the employee to keep informed the authority about the latest happening and future plans. Reporting is the form of communication between the employee and authority; it is the regular reporting that helps authority in assessing the situation and plan future strategy for the growth of an organization. Report work as a bridge between the boss and employee. Some time when all your bosses are abroad and each supervising your work with different aspect it becomes essential to manage your reporting with utmost care.
Sending report to more than two bosses could be intricate and if there is any issue between employee and executive or between executive A and executive B, then situation becomes very peculiar for the employee. One of the best ways to handle such situation is to discuss it clearly with your boss, explain it to Executive A that you will handle extra responsibility if he will inform Executive C about your new responsibility and priority and ask executive C if he can put some of her requirements on the back burner.
Another problem that an employee can face in reporting more than two bosses is to prioritizing the delegated task. Ask your boss to set the urgency of each task so that you can meet the deadlines without missing any important task. Send a request sheet to your boss and ask them to prioritize the task and rate every projects priority on a scale of 1 to 5. The request sheets also helped during employee review by providing written validation of all the work she had accomplished and for whom. Use that data to chart the percentage of time employee devoted to each manager and month-to-month workload fluctuations.
Instead of asking orders learn to take decisions, evaluate the tasks, set the priority and try to finish it in given time, it will show your interest for your job and your dedication for the job. Seniors like the employees who take initiative and take responsibilities. It helps in smooth running of schedule.
Though serving numbers of executive is not an easy, but it provides lots of exposure and opportunity within the organization. It gives you chance to learn different working style at a time and how to manage multiple tasks at a time. Sometime you have to choose one boss over the other, depending on your career growth.
If your relationship with either boss is less than stellar, it is advised that you research past business cycles to find circumstances similar to the ones you’re facing. “Two people with opposing viewpoints cannot both be absolutely right. You’ve got to apply your own business sense to the situation and come up with what you think is the best course of action”.
Each executive have different working style and methodology, working with different bosses will give you a chance to learn. Such experience and knowledge you will never gain from books or from universities, practical work experience teaches a lot, if you are new to field learn from other’s experience and broaden your horizon. Face every tricky situation as your new lesson and try to learn from each experience good or bad it will surely help you in evolving as successful professional.
One thing is certain that multi-reporting is not for a long tenure and at the most it will be for 2 years or less. After the period is over you are relieved but with additional knowledge and easy to cope up with any situation. So do not take any hasty decision during the multi-reporting period.
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