Personal reflection with the help of another person as a mirror
I had a good talk with my manager yesterday. Well, my former manager. Someone was promoted to under her so we will be reporting to this new woman. We all know her from a different department, but haven't worked directly under her before. I think it will be more positive because she has more accounting experience.
At any rate, my question was basically what can I do to improve myself so that I can get promoted to team lead. The issue I had last week with one of my co-workers came up. I was told that I was "borderline abusive" which struck me as being very heavy-handed. I know in that situation I got to a point where I wasn't listening to my colleague. I know I wasn't as willing to work on a mutual solution as I usually am, but I wasn't abusive. I'm a bit shocked that someone viewed it that way. I was stern because I knew I was right. Where I failed was in explaining it properly. At any rate, if someone is perceiving my action that way then I have to at least be cognizant of that and work to make sure that people don't view me that way. Perception is reality. The good news is that my colleague and I are fine. We've talked about it and we understand what was going on at that time.
I have another conflict that I have to resolve. Last year, my CFO promoted a man that had never worked in finance before to a leadership position on the finance department. I have a major problem with this because I simply cannot respect him professionally. More important, this makes me lose respect for the CFO because the move makes no sense. We already have a major lack of knowledge and expertise in the department. This will only make things worse. I have a very had time dealing with this man because I know he doesn't know what he's doing. He may in time, but for now and the long run, it will be a hindrance. Worse yet, he's already being touted as being the next Controller and then eventually the CFO. That makes absolutely no sense to me because he doesn't know finance. It's very frustrating and it gives me the opinion that the company doesn't value actual finance people at all.
At any rate, my question was basically what can I do to improve myself so that I can get promoted to team lead. The issue I had last week with one of my co-workers came up. I was told that I was "borderline abusive" which struck me as being very heavy-handed. I know in that situation I got to a point where I wasn't listening to my colleague. I know I wasn't as willing to work on a mutual solution as I usually am, but I wasn't abusive. I'm a bit shocked that someone viewed it that way. I was stern because I knew I was right. Where I failed was in explaining it properly. At any rate, if someone is perceiving my action that way then I have to at least be cognizant of that and work to make sure that people don't view me that way. Perception is reality. The good news is that my colleague and I are fine. We've talked about it and we understand what was going on at that time.
I have another conflict that I have to resolve. Last year, my CFO promoted a man that had never worked in finance before to a leadership position on the finance department. I have a major problem with this because I simply cannot respect him professionally. More important, this makes me lose respect for the CFO because the move makes no sense. We already have a major lack of knowledge and expertise in the department. This will only make things worse. I have a very had time dealing with this man because I know he doesn't know what he's doing. He may in time, but for now and the long run, it will be a hindrance. Worse yet, he's already being touted as being the next Controller and then eventually the CFO. That makes absolutely no sense to me because he doesn't know finance. It's very frustrating and it gives me the opinion that the company doesn't value actual finance people at all.
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