On upward management - have always struggled with this too. I've found that I don't like setting up catch ups myself, and when they happen, it's some random BS

I think ultimately my comfort level has set in with - having purely feedback oriented catch ups once a quarter, and between them just trying to do well at work.

Basically not having to make random casual talk in catch ups, but also ensuring you're not caught off guard during performance evaluation.

Product Manager

Corporate Strategist

Hey folks on Grapevine, could use your help.   Managing up: Super poor at this. Never meet the skip boss either. Anyone know what’s the right way to crack managing up and accelerate up the career l...

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Hey folks on Grapevine, could use your help. 

Managing up: Super poor at this. Never meet the skip boss either. Anyone know what’s the right way to crack managing up and accelerate up the career ladder 🪜 without seeming like a blatant careerist or building “genuine” relationships even though you don’t feel that way. Is there a simpler way to make this happen?

Managing oneself: There’s a great article by Peter Drucker on Managing Oneself. All fine and dandy in theory but I wonder if there’s a more practical  Gen-Z version of this anyone could take a stab at? 

Link for the latter: https://hbr.org/2005/01/managing-oneself

Hacks for managing up + managing oneself? 🧘

Hacks for managing up + managing oneself? 🧘- Grapevine

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Is it just some glorified corporate bullshit or does this principle have some real practical value?
“Managing your manager” honesty sounds very much like “potty training your dad” to be very frank.

What is this concept of “managing your manager” or “managing upwards”?

Software Engineer

Welcome to Office Gossip's Private Community

All the People Managers here, comment below, 

What do you really want out of your team and for yourself at work?

Do you really enjoy micromanaging people and showing off your authority by hyper monitoring them and messing up their work life balance? Do you want to be respected and loved by your team or you just want to be feared by them to feel better about yourself? 

Using fear as a motivator does not really increase your team’s productivity you know?

Please enlighten me 🙏

What do managers really want? Fed up of toxic bosses

Project Manager

Folks of Grapevine with experiences observing friends, co-workers, and yourself getting let go of my companies. Everyone around you says you should 'upskill' professionally, but every field, role, org has different definition of 'skill' that needs to be attained.

Drop in the ways you've approached Upskilling that has been advised to you for remaining relevant.

P.S. I'm building something that leaves no one behind in the age of AI, and this would help it tons

Get 'Upskilled'

Founder

For everyone wanting to quit their jobs but can’t due to the recession and ongoing layoffs, you need to build a better relationship with you manager.  

This way your work gets easier and hopefully you will buy yourself some time before you absolutely need to quit because of your horrible manager. 

I found this really cheap course that’s absolutely a value bomb that’s going to help a lot of you -

http://bit.ly/BBBF3

There is help if you need it

Ok ! So when we say manager what exactly comes to your mind?? The one who can help you with any problem that comes your way. You are a support system for your team. You know in and out of your role. But apparently this doesn’t happen at start ups. The person who can just boast about the work and show off  things in front of management and manipulate things without doing  any work?

So what exactly we need to do ?? And how to learn the art of manipulation if you want to survive???

How to become a good manager ?

Digital Marketer

How much can I expect as a SPM role at LinkedIn?

Yoe 6
Current CTC
56lpa
40 base 
6 variable
10 RSU per year

SPM LinkedIn salary

I had several instances when I escalated my manager to skip level or directly to MD. 

If you also want to do, make sure to follow below steps:

1. Make early connections with skip level managers and MD (at least when you join a company or after a month)

2. Keep posting them your work updates whenever you meet

3. Share your concerns (not about manager) regarding work in a glimpse

4. Reach to a level of comfort and then make a pitch

How to escalate a manager?

Strategy & Operations

a) Always have your churlish attitude ON. The more comfortable you get with people, the more are the chances that you may get overworked or engulfed in office politics. Remain professional. Have congenial relation only with your peers, never your bosses.

b) Always promise 10% less than you can generate (believe me you are gonna need it).

c) Manage your year in phases. Max productivity in 3 months before appraisal cucyle. Rest you can take a bit easy.

d) Never let someone put you down. If its not your faul then make the other party regret pushing you.

Small hacks for enjoying a balanced life in Big 4

Consultant

It's infuriating how everyone's advice to deal with layoffs is side hustles, wasting your life away to constantly upskill and reducing spending. Basically everyone here is saying "live life like shit to appease your corporate overlords" as if layoffs are OUR fault?

Instead, why aren't we seeing any advice on the lines of:

Build expertise in something while you're an employee and later start your own company/business/consultation on the basis of it. This will increase competition within businesses and will force them to treat their employees like humans. This was kind of the reason why things were generally good for employees from 2021-22 because all the startups popping up increased competition for labour.

Or if your employer lays a bunch of people off and starts giving the rest of you their workload, simply refuse! Don't work extra long or extra hard. Get the employees together collectively and make everyone, or at least the majority refuse to entertain these outlandish demands from your employers. What are they gonna do? Fire you all and lose their business? And if that's not going to work, just do everything very poorly and if you're asked about it, just cite that there is a lack of manpower needed to get quality results.

Basically, why have we collectively decided to take the short end of the stick and make our lives miserable when we should instead force employers to face consequences of THEIR OWN poor strategic planning? Why aren't we even discussing ideas for, let alone working on protecting our own best interests rather than interests of those who are screwing us over?

[Layoffs] Why have we just collectively decided to suck it up rather than retaliate?

I am PM with around 5 yrs of experience. I’m struggling to take my skill to next level. always receive feedback from management that output isn’t good, mostly that UX isn’t good. what can I do to improve my work?

1. Read books ? 
2. Study successful products from outside ?
3. Listen to podcasts 
4. Work with great product people? but hardly these exist 
5. leave this field altogether?
6. Just have patience and keep learning everyday?

Can experienced people share what has worked out well for them? or point me to some directions?

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