ic. so you are starting to learn

how to be in a leadership role. More specifically how to manage people,, manage communications and manage expectations. The vacation example you mentioned is a good one. Did you lay out in detail what you needed everyone under you to do before you went to vacation? Did you discuss with everyone to make sure they understood what you wanted them to do while you're out. Did you then turn around and discuss with your boss that these are the things to be accomplished in the two weeks and the individuals responsible for them? Upon your return, did you immediately check the status on these tasks, talk to various people on what went on while you were out? If things weren't done, did you talk to the people you assigned the work on the reasons, and talk to your boss to see if he's aware? Did you make it clear to the poeple who dropped balls that their work was not up to the expectation and they needed to improve?

It's a learning process you have to go through, just like when you started your first job in accounting, I bet you didn't excel at it from day one, did you? I guess along the way you probably messed up some things and learned from the lessions. Same with managing people. It takes time, effort, and attention. As a foreign-born individual, there're certain disadvantages (language, culture, etc) but there are advantages too like broader life experience, more adaptive, quick learning etc. You are by no means in a worse-off situation than anyone else. If anything you should feel more confident. Look around your office, how many people do you think could move to another country and still do what they do? You are precisely doing that and doing it better than most of them!

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• agreed, good point -Eveline- ♀ (0 bytes) () 03/09/2007 postreply 22:04:48