October 1, 2024 • 8 mins
Ep 51 - What Do You Do when Your Boss Hires An Employee For Your Department Without Your Consent
Welcome to another episode of the 'Career Coaching Xs and Os' podcast, where we unlock the strategies and secrets of career success. In today's discussion, we tackle a scenario that many managers encounter but seldom discuss: the unexpected hiring of a new team member by your superior without your input. It's a delicate situation that can test the limits of your professional relationships and decision-making. Before you consider stepping down, join us as we explore the complexities and nuances behind such decisions. Stay tuned for indispensable advice that could redefine your approach to career challenges. Hit play and take control of your career journey.
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Welcome to another episode of the 'Career Coaching Xs and Os' podcast, where we unlock the strategies and secrets of career success. In today's discussion, we tackle a scenario that many managers encounter but seldom discuss: the unexpected hiring of a new team member by your superior without your input. It's a delicate situation that can test the limits of your professional relationships and decision-making. Before you consider stepping down, join us as we explore the complexities and nuances behind such decisions. Stay tuned for indispensable advice that could redefine your approach to career challenges. Hit play and take control of your career journey.
Want To Co-host An Episode of Career Coaching Xs and Os? If you want to be entered into a drawing where the winner(s) are offered the opportunity to co-host the Career Coaching Xs and Os podcast, please do the following:
1. Buy My Book - Career Coaching Xs and Os: How to Master the Game of Career Development from Amazon - https://a.co/d/f7irTML
2. Write a review for my book on Amazon - https://www.amazon.com/review/create-review/?ie=UTF8&channel=glance-detail&asin=B0CXMM24R1
3. Follow me on one of the following social media platforms:
X.com - @ceyeroconsltg
Instagram - @ceyeroconsulting
Facebook - @ceyeroconsulting
4. Post a message on one of the Social Media platforms above stating that you submitted a review on Amazon. We will randomly select the winner(s) from the list of reviewers on August 31, 2024.
If you like this podcast, please subscribe and leave us a comment on Apple Podcast, Spreaker, or your favorite podcast platform. If you want to support this Podcast as a Loyal Listener (Supporter) on Spreaker.com, please use this link- https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/career-coaching-xs-and-os--3047801/support
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Want to improve your negotiation skills? Take the 100 Days of Rejection Therapy Challenge. The goal of the 100 Days of Rejection Therapy Challenge is to desensitize yourself to the pain of rejection and to overcome fear. Check out the website at https://www.rejectiontherapy.com/100-days-of-rejection-therapy. I took several challenges. Click the links to see if I got rejected during my negotiations: (1) Rejection 7: Speak Over Costco's Intercom - https://youtu.be/AycKKgP21fQ (2) Rejection 43: Hug a Walmart Greeter - https://youtu.be/GSjyly_C8pM
Subscribe to Ceyero Consulting's YouTube Channel. Track my progress as I complete all 100 Challenges.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7lxMSEtBOAgNBOPrmA9O_w
Need help to launching your startup or small business? Please check out my book, #Guerrillapreneur: Small Business Strategy for Davids Wanting to Defeat Goliath, available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple Books.
If you like the Career Coaching Xs and Os podcast, you might also like my other business podcasts, #Guerrillapreneur: The Art of Waging Small Business Warfare (Mastermind Interviews with Entrepreneurs, Consultants, and Business Mavericks) and #Gigging: Everything and Sharing Economy (news and predictions about the Sharing Economy).
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
This is career coaching x's and o's, and I'm your host,
Mark Anthony Peterson, Founder and thought leader at Sierra Consulting,
a small business strategy and technology consulting firm. A small
part of our practice is executive coaching. These episodes are
the summation of some of those sessions. Welcome to episode
(00:26):
fifty one, entitled what to do when your boss hires
an employee into your department without your consent. I recently
had a new client come in with exactly that problem.
Her boss had hired a new employee and put that
(00:49):
employee into her department without her consent. Now, many of
you who are listening to this episode are probably mortified.
If this happened to you, you'd be outraged and ready
to quit your job, which is exactly what my client
(01:09):
was about to do when she when this passed me.
The full context is that my client had an open
position in her department. They had started interviewing candidates, and
then she had to go off to a conference. The
first round of interviews had been taken, and then off
(01:34):
to the conference. She went, just a two day conference.
She'd be back at the end of the week. When
she returned the hire had already been made, her boss
had picked the candidate and offered the job. And of course,
my client, feeling emasculated, was ready to quit. And in
(02:00):
most cases you would be within your rights to do so.
But this is why you have a coach, Because a coach,
in many cases if they've been around the block as
many times as I have have seen this scenario before,
and I wanted my client to get the perspective of
(02:24):
full context in this situation. I asked her to do
a couple things before she submitted the letter of resignation. First,
I wanted her to do a little bit of a
background check on this new hire. Who was this hire
connected to. Was this higher a relative of a very
(02:50):
important client to their business and investor in their business,
or some other stakeholder connected with the future growth of
their business. Why did I ask her to do that?
Because that type of hire, that type of action doesn't
(03:17):
fit in any hiring scenario, except for in cases where
it's being forced upon her boss by her boss's boss. Yes,
is it starting to make sense to you? Now, A
very important client, a big investor or big stakeholder, has
(03:43):
a kid that needs a job, and so they go
to their company that they've invested in, they go to
a partner organization that they're doing a lot of business with,
and they ask the CEO, can you find a job
for my kid, And, of course, hoping to keep this
(04:08):
partner client stakeholder happy, the CEO agrees to find a
place for that stakeholder's kid, and of course they're going
to look for the place where they can have the
best possible job, supervision and support without having a whole
(04:34):
lot of hassle or impact on the day to day operations.
And that's exactly what happened here when my client came
back and provided that additional data that it was indeed
the kid of a very important stakeholder, a very wealthy
(04:56):
investor that bost had not intended to disrespect her, but
had been forced to make the hire by the very
top individuals in the organization. So when you know that context,
(05:17):
you know now how to approach your boss, and you
two now become allies as opposed to adversaries and managing
and dealing with future hires within the department. So what
looked like a disaster turned out to be a bridge
(05:38):
to a better relationship. I always advocate staying calm, putting
yourself in the shoes of the manager that you may
have a conflict with and trying to understand that perspective.
(06:00):
You do that enough, and you will be that manager
on the other side asking for someone to understand your
full context. You don't do it, and you won't be
it a company very long. So what are the lessons
learned here? Don't overreact, don't throw away a good job
(06:21):
before you do your research. Try to rebuild the context
from your manager's point of view, and if you can
understand the context and the logic, you now have a
bridge to building a better relationship with that individual. If
you face this kind of issue on others and need
(06:44):
additional guidance on how to avoid these types of pitfalls,
Guess what. I have a new book, Yes, Career Coaching
X's and o's How to Master the Game of Career
Development is on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and many other platforms,
(07:05):
and the e book is only nine to ninety nine.
Paper copy, which I love, is nineteen ninety nine. Get
your copy and leave a review on Amazon for me.
That helps me in so many ways. It helps me
if you like it to promote the book. But if
(07:28):
you don't. It helps me figure out ways that I
can better deliver the messages that I think are important
to your career development. I'll put a link to the
book in the show notes. I hope you found this
episode helpful. If so, hit that subscribe button. Follow us
(07:48):
on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at Sierro Consulting. I know
you'll share this episode with your colleagues because the best
people listen to this podcast, and I mean that. I've
had conversations both virtually and on the phone with some
of my listeners and they are the best people. If
(08:10):
you need more support in your career, please find us
on the web at Cerro dot com, c E Y
E r O dot com and let us help you
develop a plan for your career. This has been career
coaching x's and o's, and I am your host, Mark
Anthony Peterson, Founder and thought leader at Cerro Consulting.
This is career coaching x's and o's, and I'm your host,
Mark Anthony Peterson, Founder and thought leader at Sierra Consulting,
a small business strategy and technology consulting firm. A small
part of our practice is executive coaching. These episodes are
the summation of some of those sessions. Welcome to episode
(00:26):
fifty one, entitled what to do when your boss hires
an employee into your department without your consent. I recently
had a new client come in with exactly that problem.
Her boss had hired a new employee and put that
(00:49):
employee into her department without her consent. Now, many of
you who are listening to this episode are probably mortified.
If this happened to you, you'd be outraged and ready
to quit your job, which is exactly what my client
(01:09):
was about to do when she when this passed me.
The full context is that my client had an open
position in her department. They had started interviewing candidates, and
then she had to go off to a conference. The
first round of interviews had been taken, and then off
(01:34):
to the conference. She went, just a two day conference.
She'd be back at the end of the week. When
she returned the hire had already been made, her boss
had picked the candidate and offered the job. And of course,
my client, feeling emasculated, was ready to quit. And in
(02:00):
most cases you would be within your rights to do so.
But this is why you have a coach, Because a coach,
in many cases if they've been around the block as
many times as I have have seen this scenario before,
and I wanted my client to get the perspective of
(02:24):
full context in this situation. I asked her to do
a couple things before she submitted the letter of resignation. First,
I wanted her to do a little bit of a
background check on this new hire. Who was this hire
connected to. Was this higher a relative of a very
(02:50):
important client to their business and investor in their business,
or some other stakeholder connected with the future growth of
their business. Why did I ask her to do that?
Because that type of hire, that type of action doesn't
(03:17):
fit in any hiring scenario, except for in cases where
it's being forced upon her boss by her boss's boss. Yes,
is it starting to make sense to you? Now, A
very important client, a big investor or big stakeholder, has
(03:43):
a kid that needs a job, and so they go
to their company that they've invested in, they go to
a partner organization that they're doing a lot of business with,
and they ask the CEO, can you find a job
for my kid, And, of course, hoping to keep this
(04:08):
partner client stakeholder happy, the CEO agrees to find a
place for that stakeholder's kid, and of course they're going
to look for the place where they can have the
best possible job, supervision and support without having a whole
(04:34):
lot of hassle or impact on the day to day operations.
And that's exactly what happened here when my client came
back and provided that additional data that it was indeed
the kid of a very important stakeholder, a very wealthy
(04:56):
investor that bost had not intended to disrespect her, but
had been forced to make the hire by the very
top individuals in the organization. So when you know that context,
(05:17):
you know now how to approach your boss, and you
two now become allies as opposed to adversaries and managing
and dealing with future hires within the department. So what
looked like a disaster turned out to be a bridge
(05:38):
to a better relationship. I always advocate staying calm, putting
yourself in the shoes of the manager that you may
have a conflict with and trying to understand that perspective.
(06:00):
You do that enough, and you will be that manager
on the other side asking for someone to understand your
full context. You don't do it, and you won't be
it a company very long. So what are the lessons
learned here? Don't overreact, don't throw away a good job
(06:21):
before you do your research. Try to rebuild the context
from your manager's point of view, and if you can
understand the context and the logic, you now have a
bridge to building a better relationship with that individual. If
you face this kind of issue on others and need
(06:44):
additional guidance on how to avoid these types of pitfalls,
Guess what. I have a new book, Yes, Career Coaching
X's and o's How to Master the Game of Career
Development is on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and many other platforms,
(07:05):
and the e book is only nine to ninety nine.
Paper copy, which I love, is nineteen ninety nine. Get
your copy and leave a review on Amazon for me.
That helps me in so many ways. It helps me
if you like it to promote the book. But if
(07:28):
you don't. It helps me figure out ways that I
can better deliver the messages that I think are important
to your career development. I'll put a link to the
book in the show notes. I hope you found this
episode helpful. If so, hit that subscribe button. Follow us
(07:48):
on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook at Sierro Consulting. I know
you'll share this episode with your colleagues because the best
people listen to this podcast, and I mean that. I've
had conversations both virtually and on the phone with some
of my listeners and they are the best people. If
(08:10):
you need more support in your career, please find us
on the web at Cerro dot com, c E Y
E r O dot com and let us help you
develop a plan for your career. This has been career
coaching x's and o's, and I am your host, Mark
Anthony Peterson, Founder and thought leader at Cerro Consulting.
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