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How long did they have to develop content? Ultimate accountability falls on you. If you had regular checkpoints and feedback and the work was still bad... sorry. If not, then shame shame
I have to agree with the people who are saying you should have found this out earlier. If more than 1 subordinate is not doing work to the level you expect, than the issue is with you. If you had not worked with these subs before, you should have been heavily involved early to get a sense of their strengths and weaknesses, and only backed off when you were comfortable with their level of performance. Tough lesson, and I'm sorry you're going through this, but take it as a learning example. Share with your CC and get feedback on next steps and ways to avoid disaster if you need to.
Yeah, did you not review what was happening all along? How come you realizing now that there's only 1 month left? Good managers own up responsibility for their team and bad managers blame the team for bad outcome. You seem to be the latter:
Just errors in every direction I look and can't even focus on one because when I do, another pops up. Sigh.
I hear you, OP. Once had a group of newbies that were good at other things, just not the things important to our project. It was awful. In retrospect I wish I had reached out to leadership earlier to swap resources (before I started to burn out from doing the work of five people). For me, was helpful to ID the strongest resource and coach that person, then have that person coach the others. I had v supportive leadership that also jumped in to help after I discussed w them at the 11th hour. Wasn't pretty, but things worked out. To combat burnout, I also started to do cardio daily (lowers cortisol levels, vv helpful). Good luck! (Also Google James Altucher's post "how to be the luckiest guy in the world in 4 steps")
Buck stops with you.
There won't be a disaster. Client will approve the work. It will be highly valuable and we will step away. I just know the quality of the work doesn't meet my personal standards and that is a terrible, demotivating feeling.
I can't be everywhere at once and am just too demotivated and don't have the time to clean up this mess. Anyone else have this issue b4?
been trying to give feedback and not much has improved... in months. Just demoralizing. Can't do it anymore.
Haven't read the whole thread, but I am living through something similar now. It is a type of disappointment and anger that I feel I feel should have its own word.
Me too :( it is so bad that going in day 3 of correcting errors, I am telling myself that it was written by a non-native English speaker (even though it wasn't) just so I stop getting as mad ni had to work 7 hours on Sunday of Thanksgiving break to correct their errors and am still going and am officially past the deadline. :(
That sucks then. Had a coworker with someone like that. Worked really hard on her for 2+ months to no avail. Ended up rolling her off and she hasn't been staffed since due to performance issues. These things work themselves out but as a manager just look out for the firm by being honest about the feedback. Sorry you had to take the hit tho
I came late into a team with this scenario, took over everything while the team slowly rolled off, and fixed almost everything in time! It's possible OP. Do you know anyone that can help?
Oh it is clean up time baby.
Yea there are two ways to solve this problem. Oversee the work regularly and knock heads when it doesn't get better after feedback. Or feel bad and re-do it all yourself.
Hmmm just realizing this now??? Reflects more of you than them at this point
No I've known it for a while and have just been waiting to the end to solve due to a rushed project phases.
Op- just take it as a learning experience. Also sometimes there is your personal standard for "good" and sometimes there is "good enough." Especially with a short timeframe.