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Let me paint a little picture for you. You work at a company and you have a resource manager, we will refer to this person as your boss for the duration of this piece. You work for this boss and every few weeks you have meetings with him for the purpose of going over your progress and your work.
You have a one on one meeting with them and go over your progress and work of the last two weeks. Their response is amazing, gushing with support of how awesome you are doing! Everyone is saying great things about you and your boss has collected excellent feedback. Win Right? Store that thought.
A few weeks later, you have another meeting. However, this time the reaction is the total opposite. You hear things like “underachieving” and “your peers are running circles around you”. You feel surprised and shocked because the feedback really catches you off guard since two weeks earlier you were on a Lebron James level but now you are Lebron James in Cleveland after he left for Miami!
Imagine this occurred for a few months, even half a year, with each few times, your feedback flipping back and forth. The remarks from you boss are either extremely positive or extremely negative. Imagine that for a second … Is this a problem?
I think so and believe this is an issue with the manager.
If your work has been the same consistent effort throughout the entire time and the feedback you are receiving is drastically inconsistent from the previous meeting, there is an issue with your manager and their ability to provide feedback. It is an issue if the feedback sits on each extreme pole every time and never finds anything in between. Sometimes managers feel that the only way they can get you to understand is by being extreme. Whether they are being critical and trying to motivate you or praising you for something that might be exaggerated.
This is the situation I am currently experiencing and one of the reasons I am looking for a new job internally. It is one thing to get horrible feedback from your manager. It is a totally different situation where the only possibilities are on the North and South poles. I have been putting forth the same effort and performing the same way this entire time and I have project managers and technical leads that have given me that feedback.
So it is just the boss. The one that is in charge of my appraisal and the one that handles my mid and end year reviews. This is not the person that I want to be in control of my career development if I never know where I stand with them!
Anyone find anything wrong with this or is it just me?
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