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A manager here:
I am responsible for the work output.
If you do mistakes, it falls on me. If you do lots of mistakes in the beginning, I start to take an approach that I need to be closer to the work, as I can't trust it to go to the clients unseen.
The aim is to point out all the things so that you learn (and some are better than others at making you not feel like shit in the process, but that is a different story). Hopefully, after a few weeks of coaching, you know what I am looking for when I say 'client ready'. At that time, you will be well prepared to be a solid performer on your next case, as our project would likely have finished by the time. (If it continues and I see you take the feedback on and are coachable, it might even change again within our working time together)
Don't take it personally, joining MBB is hard for many reasons...this is one of them.
Hey BCG2,
There's 2 things I'd mention:
1) collaboration makes us better. If you have a thought through approach, I'll build on it. And it will require changes. Not because your work was bad, but the opposite, you gave me something to react to and together we made it better.
--> this often feels crap. And even as a manager I sometimes walk I to meetings with partners, think I have an amazing deck and they make changes to it. It never stops, so see it as part of the manufacturing process and not as criticism.
2) it's perfect if you can argue why you did something in a certain way. It won't stop #1 above from happening. Tell me what you are thinking, and then we go on. If you keep defending the work, that's getting annoying. If you think together with me and help me to make your work better, that is amazing. (We all grow attached to our own work...but you have to be able to detach from that)
Hope that helps
Coach
That’s not specific to MBB…there are managers like that everywhere unfortunately
Confirmation bias is real and don’t overthink it. Also, managers tend to get very jumpy when they don’t trust you or you failed their early checks.
As many others have said, don’t take this personally, it’s not necessarily a you thing it’s a situation/manager thing. Just grit though this and move to the next project, we all have bad projects and managers, don’t let it get to you.
👋🏽 had the same thing happen to me. Best piece of advice I can give you is don’t take it personally, learn from your mistakes, and move on during your next case. One bad project won’t sink you, but a continuous pattern of bad projects won’t be a good look.
Mentor
What kind of work is it? Excel? PowerPoint? Is there a way you can do a self-check before sending them your work product to minimize the lash back and subsequently optimize the review process and timeline?
Going through the same thing OP
Just keep learning and showing the output in your work. Such bosses in general start trusting you a lot as well when you show improvement. A partner of mine who had once subtly threatened to fire me at the start of my tenure was desperately begging me to stay a year later when I quit for a better pay-check. Told me to come back whenever I wished to.