Background information about upcoming service request

The moment I joined the call with my manager for assisting the delivery lead for pulling up the existing slides from the repository, he started to provide background for the new work out of nowhere and requesting me to schedule recurring calls for next weeks with onsite team for discussion. I was completely taken aback by this approach and was waiting for the call to get over, so I can discuss with my manager about taking up the work. My manager was still in assumption that the delivery lead was expecting to share existing reusable slides and the moment I stressed about being new work coming out of nowhere, he understood and was requesting me to provide support for the service request. From the initial discussions, the service request seemed to be easier pick and all I had to do was analyse existing knowledge repository and pull in some existing slides and reword it based on the client requirements. However, as usual it turned out to be most irritating service request by working with my manager and delivery point of contact assigned. To know more about the service request, please feel free to check out “G R Team Sites”

Working on irritating opportunity with tight deadline

Now I jumped onto the deck, started filling the slides with the standard information available with me and shared it with the delivery person. To safeguard myself I have marked this mail only two that delivery person and specifically in the mail that it was only a draft version based upon the topics suggested by the onsite team and it can be customised further. I didn’t know that this mail would protect me from further escalation from my manager and never thought the delivery person would drag me into this pit hole. I came to know the importance of the deck only when my manager was reviewing the deck and commenting on the slides and validating with me, why I had those slides included and the deck was all over the place. To more what happened further on this opportunity, please feel free to check out the blog posts in “G R Team Sites”

Recurring calls and the first updated deck for review

So, I scheduled recurring calls with all the team members and the leaders to review the daily updated decks and get the necessary from the onsite team. On the first day I had a very draft storyline in place, and I had few information copy-pasted from the earlier decks for the review. The call started, the on-site team was immediately checking for the latest slides for the review and they were expecting everything to be in place on Day 1. I was completely furious, however I couldn’t express it in the call, as there were any top leaders and delivery leads in the call. I was patiently going through the slides and explaining it to the on-site team, the purpose, the required inputs from each team and the outcomes that we wanted to call out. In that initial call, everyone was fine with the storyline and was expecting it to be continued in the next week recurring calls as well and was forcing me to have the updated deck by Monday evening call. Learn more about what happened on the Monday call, detailed in the G R Team sites.

Appraisal rating and promotion request for this year

The most awaited time of year has come again for this year and as usual I was anxious about this year’s rating. I had stiff competition this year from around all my team members and was hoping that I would be awarded second best ratings this year compared to last year’s first rating. Before I get into my appraisal ratings, I wanted to detail about hierarchy in my team. So, my team is split into two parts one part is led by my manager and another part was led by old manager who led the team in earlier times. My manager usually doesn’t have any discussions or mails about my performance and mostly I get information about my ratings only in the company portal, when it is notified via email. The other manager usually schedules discussion with each and every team member and details them about their positives, outcomes and negatives. I have a teammate in my location who reports to the other manager and he was discussing about the current year’s ratings. While discussing he mentioned that his ratings were communicated much earlier and the entire team’s rating was finalized. I was getting even more anxious about my ratings and to know more, continue reading at “G R Team Sites”.