Your Remote Boss Doesnt Necessarily Hate You. Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugar coatedin fact, its sugar free, and may even be a little bitter. Welcome to Tough Love. Youve got problems, Ive got advice. This advice isnt sugar coatedin fact, its sugar free, andRead more Read. This week we have a young professional whos having a hard time adjusting to remote management after having a more hands on, supportive boss. Keep in mind, Im not a therapist or any other kind of health professionaljust a guy whos willing to tell it like it is. I simply want to give you the tools you need to enrich your damn lives. If for whatever reason you dont like my advice, feel free to file a formal complaint here. Now then, lets get on with it. Hi Patrick,Im coming up on 2. RY2xq.jpg' alt='Purpose Pattern Process Ebook Torrents' title='Purpose Pattern Process Ebook Torrents' />Im not in a good place with it anymore and am not sure what to do. When I first started, I had a great boss. Fox News, the presidents favorite TV channel, is just asking questions. But not about anything important. Purpose Pattern Process Ebook Torrents' title='Purpose Pattern Process Ebook Torrents' />Download the free trial version below to get started. Doubleclick the downloaded file to install the software. We had a good working relationship and even better was that he believed in me and pushed me. Right from the start, hed tell me he saw leadership potential in me. He said I had the most potential of anyone on our team. He encouraged me to speak at marketing conferences and pushed for our whole team to focus on professional development. Under him, we had a great sense of a unified team. And I felt like I was going places. That was the first half of my time at this job. The second half has not been as pleasant. My first boss left and his replacement is all business. I have a hard time building a relationship with her. Ive never heard anything from her to indicate she sees leadership potential or anything similar in me. There is no focus on professional development. In fact, I now have to twist arms to be able to attend marketing events, webinars, etc. No one else on the team does these things anymore. Our team has turned into feeling like this marketing production line where the focus is on pumping out as much work as we can. Team morale is low. Im not sure if my boss can see this as she works remote. Im also not sure if she cares. What should I do I cant come out and say, Hey boss. Youre really shitty compared to my last one. I dont have anyone to confide in at work. Ive been so depressed about it lately. And yes, Ive been applying to other positions. No interview offers yet. I would really appreciate hearing your thoughts. Thank you,Cross With the Boss. Hey Cross With the Boss It sounds like your first boss was a great leader. He was supportive, gave you guidance, and was essentially grooming you for future leadership. He was top notch, which is probably why someone else hired him. Off to bigger and better things or maybe retirement. Driver Terratec Aureon 5.1 Fun Windows 7 there. To be honest, Cross, most bosses arent like that. Even a lot of the good bosses Ive had in the past werent always pushing me to be better, giving me words of encouragement, or guiding me along the path to greatness. In fact, most people in management are just concerned with the bottom line. Theyre not all kind mentors interested in helping out the next generation of whatever, theyre regular people with their own stuff to worry about. They just want you to get your stuff done so they dont get yelled at by their own superiors. Basically, your first boss kind of ruined all future bosses for you. Your new boss isnt a bad boss, shes just a normal boss who wants to get stuff done in a timely manner and has no interest in pampering you. Your company, your boss, theyre not your friends, Cross. Welcome to the workforce. One thing becomes apparent after the honeymoon of a newly launched career is over YourRead more Read. A big part of the problem, however, is that you and your coworkers are experiencing what I like to call remote work growing pains. You see, your old boss was around to actually see your work ethic and potential first handsomething your new boss cant do since shes remote. All she can go off of is the results she sees at the end of the day, and the brief interactions you get with her during conference calls. That setup leaves very little opportunity for your new boss to get to know you guys, give you guidance, or grant any praise. Ever hear the phrase out of sight, out of mind Thats whats happening here, and its something you need to get used to. Subaru Baja Shop Manual. No more gold stars. Keep in mind, though, text based communication like email and chat clientswhich Im sure you useleave a lot of ambiguity. When I first started working remotely, I thought my bosses hated me because I read their emails and chats as negatively as possible in my head. When I got to know them better, I realized I was wrong, and great really meant Great, and its fine actually meant things were fine. Chill out. Unless youre told something is wrong, nothing is wrong. But youre feeling stuck, so what should you doFor one, dont tell your boss shes shitty from what I can gather shes normal. Take the initiative here and talk to your boss more. You think shes just going to magically notice that youre feeling blue when shes remoteYou have to communicate Tell her that you were on a certain professional development path before your previous boss left and that youd like to continue along that track. I mean, if you dont tell her how would she know that stuff Also, connect with your coworkers. Now that your boss is remote, you guys need each other more than ever. Find a way you can all confide in each other. It will help you all get on the same page and ask for changes together if need be. And keep twisting arms to attend marketing events, webinars, and what have you if thats what you want. Shit, thats what most people have to do in order to get that stuff. Lastly, keep applying to other positions and other companies just in case things dont ever get better. Actually, never stop doing that. Its how you climb in the professional world these days. Thats it for this week, but I still have plenty of blunt, honest advice bottled up inside. Tell me, whats troubling you Is work getting you down Are you having problems with a friend or a coworker Is your love life going through a rough patch Do you just feel lost in life, like you have no direction Tell me, and maybe I can help. I probably wont make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but sometimes what you need is some tough love. 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