Topic
Condition for giving feedback to your manager (using RESPECT framework)
Perform relationship test
Check if you have good relationship with your manager
Do you feel certain connection with your manager?
Do you feel respect about manager's skill in some of his/her skill?
You have worked for a year atleast
It is needed to get multiple opportunities to build trust and understanding with your manager
Loss and gain analysis
Check What you will gain out of it
In case manager's behaviour hurt your career
In case manager's behaviour hurt your reputation
Check What are potential losses
Be specific about the issue
Unclutter your agitated mind
Choose only one issue based on your analysis
That issue should be totally yours, not what you are hearing from your colleagues
Collect specific examples and supporting materials
Prepare what you are going to tell your manager
Follow situation, behaviour, impact model
For example, in my last presentation, you interupted me 3 times. and tell how it impacted you
Rehearse
Try to give feedback within 2 weeks from when the issue happened
Setup 1-1 meeting with your manager
Execute
Before meeting, compose yourself
Make sure your tone, body language, facial expression remains neutral
Start with the topic which manager is interested with
Be calm after giving feedback. Be calm & quite
Only answer manager's probing questions
Don't try to repeat or add arguments in the hope that manager will apologize
It happens rarely
Normal reactions of manager
You are too sensitive. I didn't mean it. Don't take to your heart
Or they might become upset and start giving feedback
Every such reaction is fine.
It means that message is delivered
Don't try to argue
At the end, you must thank your manager for giving opportunity to voice your concern
Never fall in trap to say sorry. It will dilute the matter and hence defeat the purpose
Post activity
Over period of time, you may start seeing the change in manager's behaviour
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4jZIptHtgg
Even successful person face such issue
It is not the goal, rather how to achieve goal is the problem
Problem
Start with noble way, but stuck when get hurdle
While working, they rub the people such a way that they don't want to work in future with them
Wrong why
Story - Met the goal of creating bridge, but lost the purpose
Why professional are obsessed with goal
Pleasing manager
Instant gratification
For profession, delayed gratification works well
Understand real purpose of goal and don't
https://youtu.be/fZ9SWgwTHl8
Develop 3 Non Tech skills soon to flourish in the age of CHATGPT, AI & ML
Skills needed
Adaptability with AI assistent
Talking to AI assistent will be the most important skill for this centuary
Future of work is how human partners with AI
With AI assistent, average performer can become high performer and high performer can become super performer
Develop skill to ask smart questions to AI assistent
Become heavy user of right brain
Machines are also become sentient, having emotions and feeling in limited way
Develop critical thinking to make sound judgement
Become creative since human creativity is fluid and unpredective
Have good communication skill
Written
Verbal
Instructive
Be clear, precise for machine
Develop skill to explain complex concepts in simple manner
3 Common mistakes in asking for salary correction
Citing personal needs
Don't cite personal need
Company do take care of these parameters already when they decide for next compensation
Do cite your contribution
Naming others
Manager will ask on which basis you have this perception
Don't name other
You can always say that it is based on my understanding from network
Appearing confrontational
You might be frustrated
Dont have discussion with your manager when you are in bad mood
Instead your body language and facial expression should reflect seriousness, concern and strong conviction that you need salary correction
Steps for salary correction
Do the homework
Setup 1-1 meeting
Explain your contribution and achievement
Explain how you are helping your team to achieve their goal
Listen to the manager's feedback
Setup follow up meeting
Manager's can't do salary correction immediately unless exceptional cicumstances
Managers do remember those who asked for salary correction and give more to them
It might not meet your expectation, but certainly reduce the gap
ChatGPT will kill millions of jobs ?!
50% senior management tells that chatGPT is game changer as it is intuitive
New moore's law - Intelligence will double every 18 months
Unsafe jobs
In software programming
Basic programming
Analytics
BPO
Low end job
Customer support
Media
Advertising
Legal
Para legal job
Manufacturing
Robots will replace
Finance
Research analysts
Fashion modelling
Whole industry
Safe jobs
Around 1.5 Million new jobs
Prompt engineer
Development & maintainance of AI
Self driving car
Data modelling
Physical and outdoor jobs
Doctor
Cook
Carpenter
AI is creating
software faster
debugging faster
Steps for job security
Start using chatGPT
Samsung asked employees to use chatGPT for better debugging
But then confidential code was leaked
Be in top 30% in team
You need to be fast in doing job
Are juniors overtaking you in career?
Paper tiger -> the one who appears as strong but inherently weak
Signs
Lack substance
Chicken out
Become defensive when in adversary
Tries to blame others
Real tiger eats only what it hunts except crisis
Lacks confidence
Focus on the title
Rely on title to get work done instead of their capability
Focus on past successes
They give dispropationately give high credit on themselves for their past successes
Real tiger takes every kill as new one and not rely on past success or failure
Issue
Professional has not nurtured its real tiger skill in first decade of his career
Tiger is not always in attacking mode
Tiger doesn't succeed always. It succeeds 3-4 times out of 10
Professionals want certainty and so, not nuture risk
Professonals does micro manage juniors
AI not hiring manager, will take future interviews: How to impress the algorithm
Benefits
Myths
Human biases will go away
Complain of hiring manager job security fear will go away - no
AI is also biased
Hiring manager generally gives chance to clarify.. but AI will not do
How it will be
Blank screen with only voice
You will be distracted by seeing your own reflection in screen
Why AI?
It reduces the recruitment cost
Tips
Face the camera such that AI will capture response
Half of the upper body should be within the frame
Practice for answering to blank screen
Behave like movie actor
Keep yourself between action and cut
Predictive analytics is your answer
Natural acting is the key
Don't try to act like machine
Individual success or Team success
General input
When professional focusses on team success, they don't able to work for own success
When professional woks on own success, they are labelled as selfish
Leaders
Sees team as basic unit and want it to run efficiently
Appraisal
Is based on individual success and less weightage on team success
RACE framework
Realisation
You job is secure because of team success.. Realise this
Autonomy
Individual success demands autonomy
Respect individual's decision and translate it to team success
Care
Reach out to others and help them in their success
Interact with the team person
Enjoy
Enjoyment is contagious
Enjoy what you do
When you must say No at work and Safeguard your career
3 situations
Say no to data change which might lead unethical issue
In an instance, employee was victimized. He created report and extrapolated the data also mentioned it as side note. on advice of manager, removed the side note. Data was presented to customer and got back fired. Manager refused that he reviewed the data. Employee was warned
In doubt, ask manager to give such requests in writing. This might upset the manager, but it will safeguard you
Every promotion is not for career growth
Story -> Person declined promotion due to personal challenge
What about promotion is used a trap.
Like person is sent to new place and their he discovered that team is without any long term vision. And also he sees the office politics
Say no if it adversely affects you
Over-working
Managers don't expect overtime, but we might be creating expectation on manager by over-working