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« on: July 09, 2004, 03:30:51 pm » |
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Argh! We got a new CEO about two months ago, and he's completely restructuring the company. It's so confusing because people are changing jobs, titles, locations, leaving, coming in etc and nobody can explain the new organisational structure at all! My boss who's an MD just tried to but then he admitted he's not even really clear himself and said "i'm just going to carry on as normal until someone tells me to stop".
I'm not worried for us really but it's just all so confusing as they keep sending out news updates with all the changes but they contradict other changes and the information is all very vague nobody has a clear picture what their role is. I know it will work it's self out eventually but sometimes these things can take years!
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gee4
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« Reply #1 on: July 09, 2004, 03:34:43 pm » |
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It can be hard enough coming into a large global organisation like I did previously and also more recently. But for goodness sake, can't the CEO just get his PA to do an org chart, cascade to managers down through team leads etc. I wouldn't send anything out unless it is labelled draft version 1.0 or final version 6.4!!!!
But that's just my own opinion.
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chris68
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2004, 04:39:33 pm » |
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I agree to one degree Gee. However, changes may be happening so fast that its hard to keep up himself and being new probably even harder for him to understand himself. However, there should be a "final" version that explains clearly what has happened and why so it doesn't disrupt employee morale any worse than it already has. Coming from someone who works for a CFO for 7 years and for my CFO who has been here for 25+ years, even when we do changes it does upset the apple cart regardless.
Stick with it and follow your MD's advice in doing what you've been doing until your told not to is probably best for now til all the dust settles.
We've been changing things in our office like crazy in the last 3 years some of it good and some not so good, but in the long run, it seems to be working out fairly well for us.
Good luck and feel free to vent/smile, whatever in the meantime with us.
Stay calm/cool as much as possibile and just realize you are in a transition period.
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raindance
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« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2004, 05:09:07 pm » |
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Change is very difficult, particularly if it is imposed upon us rather than a change that we have chosen. It can be quite an emotional rollercoaster and you have my sympathies. Hope all works out well.
Raindance
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supergirl
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2004, 02:30:31 am » |
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That's good advice, Chris. Those rollercoaster feelings are what I was referring to in my "grouchy rant" the other day. I am managing the office, yet I am also filling in for the enrollment department, which disbanded (very odd, for a private school!) when the PA was let go and the director left for another job, and has yet to be replaced by the board. I have been moaning about being thrust into admissions, but it has occurred to me that this is also good experience for my cv. Admissions is actually kind of fun--if I didn't have a full-time job already! I will try to look at the sunny side and de-emphasize the uncertainty we all are in.
Supergirl
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uberpa
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2004, 10:44:13 am » |
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Thanks guys, I know it can take time...but it's an entirely new process to me. It's just very weird being in such a big company and feeling like you can only really get a handle on five people in your local team. I am a "big-picture" kind of person but all the colours have run together.
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