Talia – Sounds like you’ve got yourself a difficult boss to work with. No teaching most likely equals no learning. Is there anything you can learn from him, other than how NOT to manage? Think about how you can leverage him into a better role in the company. It’s tough, but I’ll bet you can come up with some lemonade if you put your mind to it.

Please come back again, hopefully with a new-found hope for managers, or at least a new one for you.

And I still feel like a high school intern, being that I had to share a desk with a coworker for the first 2 weeks I was hired, then moved to the back of the building sharing office space with a different department for another year before I got my permanent cube, which just happened to be my boss’s old one (of which he still has some of his stuff cluttering the corners).

And he wonders why I haven’t integrated well with the group. And being that I’ve got both my masters degree and professional license in my field of engineering, I expected a bit more at this career level. Ah well.

As a manager, you get lots of credit for successes – as well you should. Take a moment and drink it in. Then share it. Because if you manage a team, your team also gets credit for those successes. Make sure they are included in the kudos.

Warmly,
Donna Cutting
aka Gal Morale