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A slight incapable manager - suggestions ?

Paula

Hi everyone

 I understand that incapable is a strong word but I might have expected a bit more . During my time at work I find that ( which is being found gradually ) , that my manager struggles to understand what I meant sometimes , for example, Often I provide more complex ideas but she would expected much more straightforward answers,  If I wanted to combine everything into one large file onto Excel, it’s too much for her so she wanted a simple version ( ie different tab) but for me, I would find it easier to comprehend. I mean my managers definitely have her strengths which I can learn it from, but so much time being spent on things she might not find it understanding. If she gives me a task, we are going back and forth back and forth to work something because the initial instruction was not strong. She was  my role before, therefore it might be a steep learning curve  and also, with greatest respect( and I am certainly not being arrogant) , I came from a masters economics background, she is 15 years older than me, however only has An a level degree, I think for me the company has a lot to Learn from, but the manager was not up to my standard.  Any tips on improving the working relationship ? 

Many thanks in advance 

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  • I have something like this, I tend to overthink/overcomplicate things because sometimes, I can't believe that I'm actually being asked to do something fairly straightforward! this is a bit of a hang up from working with a manager who would task me with something that sounded straightforward but I was actually supposed to invoke my mind reading superpowers and completely disregard the original instruction to produce a basic absence report and create a full on pivot tabled, look-up'd, nested forumula'd MS Excel work of art.

    Nowadays I will repeat the instruction back......"ok so you want to see an absence management report, is this just names, dates and so on or do we want to add a BF scoring tab......and do we want any charts on there or.......?" and that helps to confirm what I need to do beforehand and dig a bit deeper.

    Age and qualifications have absolutely zero relevance and there is a slight hint of arrogance about your post if im honest (although I do think arrogance if it's actually confidence can be a good thing!) but I think if this is potentially coming across then that might need to be dialled back a little as that might put a strain on the relationship.
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  • I have something like this, I tend to overthink/overcomplicate things because sometimes, I can't believe that I'm actually being asked to do something fairly straightforward! this is a bit of a hang up from working with a manager who would task me with something that sounded straightforward but I was actually supposed to invoke my mind reading superpowers and completely disregard the original instruction to produce a basic absence report and create a full on pivot tabled, look-up'd, nested forumula'd MS Excel work of art.

    Nowadays I will repeat the instruction back......"ok so you want to see an absence management report, is this just names, dates and so on or do we want to add a BF scoring tab......and do we want any charts on there or.......?" and that helps to confirm what I need to do beforehand and dig a bit deeper.

    Age and qualifications have absolutely zero relevance and there is a slight hint of arrogance about your post if im honest (although I do think arrogance if it's actually confidence can be a good thing!) but I think if this is potentially coming across then that might need to be dialled back a little as that might put a strain on the relationship.
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