I’m 2 months in under a new manager who rarely speaks or responds to calls, chats or emails. Unless I chase, nag, etc.

When we do talk, the boss’ remarks concern me: ‘do you even like the company?’, ‘Your current work doesn’t bring enough value.’ ‘You need to be in a highly visible role to renew your contract.’ ‘Do this for x-days and we’ll revisit.’

It’s like I’m on a PIP…. Without being on a PIP.

How do I manage up in this scenario?

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Have you had a conversation with them to set and manage expectations and ways of working together? Could you pitch a ‘hi Manager - Would love to add an hour to talk through ways of working, understand expectations and review priorities to align and advance projects I am leading. Can you let me know when works on Monday/Tuesday/Wed for you to do this?’ Then use the time to talk about comms prefs and what input you need, be curious to learn what they mean about demonstrating value - do they mean a certain type of marketing deck for your work, more regular update meetings etc., working with stakeholders you are not yet etc.? And send follow up notes on what you agreed

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Two months can still be kind of early to iron out all the wrinkles. Definitely agree that setting up a meeting and going over should hopefully help that. From that hopefully something good, but if nothing else you’ll at least know where the other manager is coming from, i.e. just saying generic things to brush you off.

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There had to have been something that happened for your manager to say those things to you, if not then you see what a bad manager does and how not to interact with people. I agree that you should schedule a time for a meeting and ask them why they said what they did and what their expectations of a member of leadership should being doing. If and when you do this be prepared to hear things you may not like or agree with but take notes and ask yourself if you can do what is being stated.

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