I work in a team of 3 in one small office and we have two line managers, myself and the lady I line manage who manages our assistant. My new line manager has now insisted I have fortnightly meetings with her on a standard agenda minuted basis going through each area of her JD to check what she's doing instead of our our daily check ins which are done when the assistant is out of the office (she covers another dept in the afternoon due to lack of work for her in our team) I would normally only have that level of one to one if there was an issue but there isn't. I have overall responsibility for the team workloads and that we are meeting any deadlines which is not an issue
- we are well ahead of things (we work to a calendar set annually). I did suggest that I report into my LM for my area and the other person directly for their area which is more complex and everyone liaises with her directly which seemed the common sense approach but this was a no. I have been suggesting that the whole team structure and workload needs looking at as it isn't working (I've taken on two new tasks in an attempt to keep busy) but the response in my opinion is ostrich like. How would others manage this?