Have been in my job a couple of years. I recently got a new line manager, previously a colleague at my grade.
She is doing my head in as she basically insists on doing my job as well as hers - she tells me what to do about all aspects of my work (I am in a senior role so am expected to manage large areas) and demands I give her daily updates on whether I have done everything she asks, which take up lots of time I should be spending on the job.
Worst of all is she has taken to having meetings on my work areas with colleagues across the organisation, without even inviting me. I therefore don't know what was discussed, lessening my ability to do my job effectively, and making me look like an idiot. She recently wrote a summary of my work area based on speaking to other people but not me, for a range of senior people across the organisation, that completely misrepresented my work area and made out I had done nothing for a year!
She's not deliberately unpleasant and will tell me I've done x piece of work she's 'set' me well. But I am effectively being treated like a very junior, new staff member, while being paid a salary for a senior role.
How do I get her to stop this? I have asked to discuss this with her, but am not sure how to phrase this in a way that isn't rude, but does stop the behaviour.
My assumption is she misses her previous work, dealing with the details of the work, but likes the idea, rather than the actual role of being a higher grade. So she is basically trying to be both grades at once - be a senior manager and also interfere with my work.
Any advice appreciated - she's not an unpleasant person, but it drives me mad. I'm also not sure how much she is like this to everyone, and how much I am getting this treatment particularly because she (wrongly) thinks I am incompetent in some way (I'm not). We haven't worked closely together before so she doesn't really know me.