Around August last year my old boss left and we got transferred to a new department.Completely different management style, before I was fairly pigeon holed in what I did and also expectation levels were fairly low, new boss is quite exacting, but v difficult to schedule time with as so busy.
Unfortunately after a few weeks this coincided with flaring up of a health issue for me leading to time off for an op, then additional time off as I'm on heavy duty hormonal treatment and it took my body and mind a bit of time to adjust.
When I had my end of year review he stated a number of things I need to do to improve my profile and make a more positive contribution. Generally I agreed with what he said and felt it would have been hard for him to draw any different conclusion based on my performance during the time I had worked for him, although it was in a large part due to this medical incident ( I have no history of taking time off btw)
So today we were scheduled to catch up and I was expecting an innocuous meeting. I have been working really hard and have implemented changes to our team and generally felt that I was doing good. But the meeting didn't go well and partly because I feel a bit nervous around him there were a few instances where I wasn't sure if he was alluding to something that I may or may not have done or for example I said I would like to go on a Leadership course and his response was "Thank Goodness", I know I should have asked what he meant by that but just too gobsmacked to do so.
Thing is my boss is a good guy I just think he has formed an impression of me based on a very difficult few months and I'm swimming against the tide to change it. Its really upset me as I feel that I'm not a spectacularly good mother or employee right now. So how can I make him change his opinion of me ?
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So how do I convince my boss I'm not just a big fat waste of space ?
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rookiemater · 20/01/2009 20:20
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