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Proceed with caution, this could be a mine field. I would only do this in the right circumstances. I think stuff like this is best done in causal setting. After hours and or in a more relaxed setting. And only if there is some degree of trust/respect for you.
^i agree with Senior Consultant 1
Start off by attacking him personally, comment on his receding hair line. Then go at his heart, note that you don’t see what his wife sees in him and she really could do better. Then overview the perform problems. By the time you get to that, pretty low hanging fruit for him to work on really.
I feel like we may have worked together before? 😂
Maybe ask him if everything is ok because he seems a little stressed
Use reasonable judgement. feedback is only productive if the person receiving the feedback is willing to listen. Not every one in upper management cares about getting productive feedback. If you give feedback this might trigger a negative response and the SM may try to make your life miserable. My advice is before talking directly to the SM try speaking with your career manager first. It’s possible that your career manager can speak to the SM so you aren’t put directly in the fire. & have another job lined up if everything just backfires( which happens)
You may want to ask for some quick feedback (is the lingo 5 for 5 now?) When a staff asks me for my feedback, I usually give it and ask what feedback they would like to give me. Possible his feedback to you could also be a way for you to bring it up. When you do be sure to have suggestions on how things could be done differently.
Ex. On one of my teams the manager felt we had too many fire drills. So he asked if we could talk about a process to touch base more often during the week and make sure we were doing as much as we could to avoid last minute things. I welcomed his suggestion and he took on more of an active role in the engagement (which helped my juggling of too many things).
If you have that concern already, consider it bad leadership. You can plough through, but don’t become the same person. Otherwise, I dunno. Dealing with -what I assume you are insinuating is incompetence- is just difficult.
I’ve had people below me yell at me because they just couldn’t take it anymore. I don’t advise that method but upward feedback is part of the game. Everyone wins when everyone gets better.
There could also be a reason your SM is being that way and this would give them the forum to explain it if they so choose. Sometimes they have to be the bad guy because the alternative is worse. I don’t know if its the case but could be