美国老土和各位大侠,明早和老板开会,紧急需要建议
我就是上周五电话会上那位学会计、和韩国同事争project lead的女童鞋。
事情是这样的。我已经不可能争到做唯一的project lead了,她绝对不会让步,我只想要老土说的中策(做平等co-leads). 但这位韩国同事连co-lead也不想我沾,处处想一把抓,很多worldwide level的事务想自己处理了,以便最大限度地拿credit, 等我知道时她已经做完. 因为她到处发email说她是ww lead, 我是她的support, 很多人就只跟她联系,我根本没有信息。以下是我俩的一些emails. 我最后一封email后她没回音,1小时后我收到老板的meeting invitation, 要明早和我俩谈how to handle WW and Geographies. 显然,韩国人背后把我告了。老板是上个月新来的。(顺便说一句,老板今天生日,这个韩国人买了蛋糕到办公室来为老板庆祝,比我会来事。)
TS=老板
NH=韩国人
KD=公司总部的WW Accounting Lead
我发的第一封email,copy韩国人
Hi, KD,
FYI. NH and I divide up this deal by geo. She will do US and AP, I will do Europe. Please invite both of us to your accounting related calls.
韩国人立马回了一封email:
Hi, KD,
Just for clarification to avoid email traffic in case, I am the WW lead for ABC project (like John was for XYZ project) and working on US and AP as well. So I will be the project WW focal for any WW questions.
我回了一封email, copy KD.
NH,
I should be on copy for all ABC project accounting issues for awareness, specially when it is WW and affect Europe, even though it is not Europe specific. That should be the way a team work.
完了后我觉得有必要好好谈谈,于是就写了以下email, 只发给她,没有copy任何人.
Hi, NH,
I feel necessary to clarify each other's capacity and how we should carry out the project. I am sure you want to gain as much experience as you can from this project, so do I. My intent is to learn the max I can learn by doing this project. We don't have to mimic exactly the same way John and Annie ran XYZ project as everyone has different objective to achieve in doing a project. The bottom line is as long as we run the project successfully (we will), I am sure TS will support a way that can benefit both of us the most from a learning perspective.
1. You will handle US and AP issues (That is, US and AP issues should go to you)
2. I will handle Europe issues (That is, Europe issues should come to me, not to you first)
3. We should jointly handle WW issues (My involvement is essential, as stated in my previous note. Things like account mapping, I should be involved early on. We can divide up the work if you like)
4. Since Europe has 2/3 of the entities, if you would like to handle the general project management work (like setting up meetings, sending agenda, recording minutes, maintaining task plan), that's fine with me. That would even out the workload a little. Of course I will not leave all the work to you!
By title, we all do WW (i.e. WW Coordinator). KD is the WW lead. You and I are a joint team. If you want to handle all the WW issues by yourself, then you don't need me, you just need an entry level help.
Let me know if you want to discuss further. We can talk in person if you prefer.......
一看到老板的meeting invitation就知道她背后把我告了,估计她把我的email给老板看了(估计是take out of context 式的,不是整个email)。想想老板介入也好,趁机说说我要什么, 否则韩国人什么都抓在她手里。
想老土和各位大侠给点建议,明早该怎样和老板还有韩国人谈才能最大限度地拿到我想要的。因为老板是新来的,不太了解他会站那边。可是因为韩国人先告状,并且拿去年的XYZ project来做例子,老板有可能站她那边。我该怎样谈?我自己能想到的是:
Be calm, don’t get emotional. Be professional.
1. When I took the project, my understanding was that we would work jointly as co-leads. It was not clearly communicated to me that one as lead and the other as support.
2. I have been in this dept for 2 yrs. I have successfully completed 4 small to medium size acquisitions. I am ready to gain experience from a big project. Big project doesn’t come all the time. This big project is important for me as it is for NH.
3. I want to be involved and jointly handle the WW issues as it affects Europe. I will learn thru resolving the issues. If I am only involved in handling Europe issues, I won’t learn as much as I hope to. I had already handle Europe before. I would like to bring my knowledge and skill to another level when I get out of this project.
4. I would be happy to work out a way with NH that we both can learn the max, rather than one person gains more experience, the other gains less.
5. I want my capability to be fully utilized. I want to contribute more to the project than just being a support.
想老土和各位大侠我还该说什么?有什么地方说得不对的吗? 大谢!