🌼Skip levels
🌸Are an
🌻Organizational
🌷Necessity
If you don't have a 1x1 with your boss's boss, and/or each of your direct reports' reports, at least 2-4 times a year...why not?
Skip levels are e2e health checks for your management chain. This is basic org hygiene, people.
🌸Are an
🌻Organizational
🌷Necessity
If you don't have a 1x1 with your boss's boss, and/or each of your direct reports' reports, at least 2-4 times a year...why not?
Skip levels are e2e health checks for your management chain. This is basic org hygiene, people.
https://twitter.com/julikt/status/1811729177332064566
"People leave managers, not companies", or so they say.
It shocks me how many people I talk to who don't have a regular 1x1 with their skip level.
This is not a relationship you want to start trying to build from scratch when something might already be deeply wrong. 😕
It shocks me how many people I talk to who don't have a regular 1x1 with their skip level.
This is not a relationship you want to start trying to build from scratch when something might already be deeply wrong. 😕
Like, there are LOTS of good reasons to take this relationship seriously and make time for it to grow.
Looking 👆--
* you get to ask questions about strategy
* you get a peek into how your work is viewed
* you can compare answers between your manager/their mgr
Looking 👆--
* you get to ask questions about strategy
* you get a peek into how your work is viewed
* you can compare answers between your manager/their mgr
Looking 👇--
* you get a peek into upcoming talent
* you get to compare what the manager says about team vibes & daily work to what they say
* you get an utterly priceless perspective on that manager's judgment
I don't know how you feel like you can review a manager w/o these.
* you get a peek into upcoming talent
* you get to compare what the manager says about team vibes & daily work to what they say
* you get an utterly priceless perspective on that manager's judgment
I don't know how you feel like you can review a manager w/o these.
But the actual most important reason to do regular skip levels is so that you build up those relationships and trust.
You need to establish a track record of asking your reports' reports for honest feedback on their manager, hearing it, and acting on it to make things better. 💐
You need to establish a track record of asking your reports' reports for honest feedback on their manager, hearing it, and acting on it to make things better. 💐
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