What Is Your Perspective?

Our wonderful community has earned a great reputation for bonhomie, goodwill and knowledge sharing. When someone is in any kind of distress, our members rush with consolation and give suggestions for overcoming that distress.
Once in a while some members get into unnecessary and unwanted harshness in their communications. I appeal to such members to desist from such harshness. I am one of the oldest members both in terms of my association with this wonderful community and my age. I do hope my appeal will be taken in right spirit

 

This is an old post but I’ll share a few thoughts.

Amazing. Congratulations!!! I hope you have gone on to receive many more such accolades. It’s not an everyday occurrence.

You are a great manager looks like. This is what everyone expects out of a manager. But honestly, I always see this as the manager’s job. It’s not something that one would expect shout outs from the techies for.

You have been in the tech team for sure. Did you always consider the manager as one of you? All teams I’ve been on have had the team band together and that’s often minus the manager. The only exception I’ve seen is when the manager does something completely outside of their job description. Like one of mine actually took on my work when I had to take time off sick and nobody else on the team had bandwidth. If she had just delegated it, it would have been something that’s a part of her role.

Why? Celebrate. You are client facing and managing multiple teams with expectations from your management and clients. That’s not a simple thing. You’ve put in the work. This team is just a part of your job. You don’t belong to these teams as a team member anymore. Change your perspective. They are reportees not mates at this point. You’ve moved on and have made great strides.

You are doing things outside of their purview. Look to your bosses and peers for confirmation. Look to your teams only for FB on how you are performing as a manager. No negative feedback and team being happy is a positive feedback.

For what it’s worth, everyone even reportees feel a sense jealousy when you achieve accolades. Not just peers. That’s a good thing too. That means you are doing well. Very few people are able to be happy for you while they didn’t also achieve like you.

Instead of calling them “your own team” try reportees.