It’s been a while folks & now you are going to get a nice, long post split into two separate (you can see part two here). Me & a good friend of mine (who also works in the industry) speak quite often & whenever the conversation turns to work, it inevitably centers on the mounting frustrations she’s experiencing. As we talked things through, much of what you will see in my next post came to fruition.
Not getting the help you need from above? Is your team’s performance not up to par? Because of this, is your ass are your feet being held to the fire? When you are stuck between the proverbial rock & a hard place, what do you do?
It is in these times that true leaders emerge & separate themselves from everyone else. By taking ownership of the situation & making both your team & yourself (even if you are, in actuality, assuming some of your boss’s roles & responsibilities) more accountable you can begin to make your professional life easier. Hard work & extreme dedication will be required, but it will be to your benefit & ultimately gain the attention needed to get things done. If it doesn’t, you work for idiots & need to find a new job where your skills & abilities are appreciated & put to good use.
In a tough economy, you should have some awareness of the fact that your job could be in jeopardy (too many people in the agency world fail to grasp this). The more you can do, the more valuable you are to your company & the harder it would be to get rid of you. Put that in your pipe & smoke it.
On Monday I’ll post my plan of attack. The concept & subsequent analysis are not new, but the application of may not be very common. Who knows? I don’t. In the meantime, feel free to share some of your difficult organizational experiences & how you overcame them.
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