Hi,
I am fairly new to working in town and am meeting a friend for lunch tomorrow. She is from Danville, so I figured I would ask recommendations of places to try.
Thanks!
Since I am managing at a new org, I thought I’d brush up on skills. I have Crucial Conversations (book, as I did class years ago). Are there any others that you have found useful?
I am a manager and in addition to 2 direct reports, I supervise two others. I supervise them mainly because there is some bad blood between them and their actual manager. Today, one of these employees was complaining about their manager and said something like “she said something about me and I got HR involved and if you (meaning me) do that I’ll take it to a higher level.”
I thanked her for sharing and told her that would not happen. However, it still feels slightly weird. This employee is the type that wants me to be her manager AND side with her on everything against her actual manager. Honestly, I wouldn’t even want to because this employee is kind of a nightmare. She feels entitled to benefits that aren’t available to her and endlessly harps about it.
So, what should I do? Tell the employee to maybe work on developing trust? Tell the actual manager what was said? Ignore both of them and focus on the 90% of my job that isn’t about the two of them?
Help!