Trying to understand what I need to do differently to build a better relationship with my direct manager. In every job I have ever had, within the first few weeks my skip level gets cozy with me while my directs don’t. My work is good, my ethics are good, my morals are great; I am just not understanding. I don’t reach out to my skip but once a month if my direct is unavailable and it is a priority ask, other than that I get calls from my skip in my current role once or twice a week while I can hardly even get time with my direct.
I should state; my direct and myself are under a lot of pressure to fix what past team members hadn’t. In doing so, I am realizing that I am stuck between a rock and a boulder; my skip level wants me working on data entry tasks/updates while making calls and my direct wants me making calls while doing data entry/updates. I am very equip skill wise to do both, but there is so much work that relates to other work without processes, that I don’t have the time.
An example of what I am describing is as follows: Data needs to be entered in order to make calls and calls need to be made in order to enter data; so a process needs to be in place but there is no process because everyone keeps saying “we can’t map that out” “there will always be variations”, I am struggling in communicating what I am seeing to them as well as my idea towards how to make it better. In the mean time I make 1-2 calls a day that rarely ever go anywhere, enter “non-used” data into our system, and organize that data into different formats thinking it is somehow going to help our team reach our goal and raise the bottom line.
This went from why don’t they like me to, I know why I am having my problems; lack of time management and lack of the ability to focus on more than one thing at a time if they are not already set in a process coupled with a lack in ability to clearly communicate patterns I see.
Does anyone have any advice on a solution? Looking to appeal direct and skips wants simultaneously without feeling like I want to ring my own neck with a rope and feeling like I can’t keep up with the pack.
Advice is so appreciated, I may not respond to comments because of time constraints; I am asking for pure love, no expectations of reciprocation, but know it will be reciprocated down the line.❤️ Also, please do not say terrible things about my superiors or company; we are all growing together, I am relatively new so I introduce some growing pains.