You will recall that in my last Thursday post I had mentioned I will submit my assessment both upward and downward. The Friday and Saturday were a rest-day for the blog and I travelled on Sunday early morning to Oman hence the delay.
Many may have thought that I got scared…!! Not me of course.
The attempt here is to be transparent with all & so should we all be.
Below is the summary of the evaluation done by my colleagues who report to me - the upward assessment.
Perception:
· Considered a dynamic, commercially sharp and a tough CEO
· Highly respected for his negotiation skills and fast decision making
· Is considered the driving force/one man army behind the company’s success and a person who can guide the company through difficult times.
· Proactive leader with a high level of passion
· Has been successful in building pockets of excellence within the organization.
· Over the years has improved in controlling his anger on people.
· Is overloaded and does not delegate enough to down the line manager
· Gets involved in small jobs/activities wasting his precious time
· Has not been successful in building a second line.
· Should accept that personnel down the line will make mistakes. Should guide and provide a chance for them to improve.
· Bypasses the line of command and would directly assign work to down-the line personnel.
· Does not spend enough time in talking to employees and addressing their problems.
Well this is a perception but for me I will always remember what some one said ‘’Perception is the reality and everything else is negotiable. ‘’
Glad to realise that I passed with a 5/10…!! or will it be considerd more than that since all reds do not mean a ZEROOOOOOO ??
I will mull over these issues and perhaps cover them in my future blog texts soon. Wait for tomorrow to read the downward assessment.
Have a good day!
Sanjay
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Dear Boss,
ReplyDeleteAfter working closly with you for over 9yrs,,, I would say you were missunderstood,,
In response to the points in red I would say:
- Though workload is huge but you like perfection, and hence would prefer to do things on your own, which save time that could be wasted on explaining to someone else who may not get your point in first place
- As for building 2nd line … I gues it was difficult enough to get people in the 1st line…
- As for giving people chances to do mistakes.. I don’t agree with this point … you do accept mistakes but to a certain limit… believe me in some cases I wished I had the authority to fire some people..
- But I have to to agree to the last point, but excuse you as well, especially I see you every day struggling with time trying to achieve as much as possible during the day, between meetings, reports, plants, phone calls beside travelling .. I wonder where you get the strength for it… God be with you…
Finaly, would love to see my assessment as well ..
Regards,
Sireen