How do you get your boss to notice your work?
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F***[moderated] up really badly?
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The point of solid IT is to be invisible to the end users. But management is different. Your direct manager should never be a question because that is their job. To manage you and thus know WTF you are doing.
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@aaron that's a smart way to do it if your boss doesn't have a weekly one-on-one in the schedule (like @jyates said), which I believe they should.
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@JaredBusch Agreed. But if they don't... ya gotta take matters into your own hands until you find a better boss.
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@RojoLoco said in How do you get your boss to notice your work?:
Dress slutty... your boss will notice you.
Every time I try this, the police are called.
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I don't mind going into my manager and telling him what I've been doing, but at the same time, my manager should take it upon himself to check in and understand what I'm doing and why.
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@aaron
@aaron said in How do you get your boss to notice your work?:
@MikeSmithsBrain said in How do you get your boss to notice your work?:
@aaron that's a smart way to do it if your boss doesn't have a weekly one-on-one in the schedule (like @jyates said), which I believe they should.
I've never liked weekly one-on-ones and that isn't what @jyates said, he said regular meetings, he did not say weekly. It's a huge waste of time. If someone has a problem, bring it up. It's weird to wait until a weekly meeting to me. I also see my superiors and some colleagues more often on video chat than in person, so it's not a good use of their time when they are physically with me to just talk aimlessly.
Weekly seems kind of close, also doesn't have to be one on one. If it's important, notify immediately. Even if your boss isn't going to be involved. Send an email, "Hey stuff and things, so I'm doing this thing. Should be done with it in X."
My current system, my boss has me send weekly emails to keep him up to date. Doesn't have to be an in depth report, just basics. Then we have a department meeting once every month, where were order Chinese food. This is where we discuss what we have been doing, and future stuff we plan on doing. Sometimes the meetings do seem kind of pointless, but free food makes happy employees.
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When something good is completed I say: "Hey boss, xyz is done, it's real cool. I need to show it to you so you can see how it roughly works so that if I am hit by a bus you have a rough idea. I will of course document it all properly but I will give you a quick run over it..."
When you meet up you can show how good you have done.
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I think that if you need your boss to "notice" your work you have a bigger problem than visibility. Why is your boss not either confident or admiring your work already? Why should you have to spend time and effort "selling" yourself for your own job?
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@scottalanmiller said in How do you get your boss to notice your work?:
I think that if you need your boss to "notice" your work you have a bigger problem than visibility. Why is your boss not either confident or admiring your work already? Why should you have to spend time and effort "selling" yourself for your own job?
I can't up this enough.
But I agree.
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Agree and disagree. You don't have to worry about proving yourself to your boss/management.
When you are trusted to do a great job with little interaction, whenever something really good is done it is useful to show your manager. This is because face time is good when you don't week to week hae to interact much and and communication is always a good thing.
I'd rather spend some time communicating the good stuff that is done, even though trusted to just get on with it, rather than no communication until the off chance that something bad has happened...
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That's kind of what I meant. Either you should be watched over and not need to prove yourself... or you should be trusted and only do it when you want to.
