Juggle Your Work for Multiple Bosses
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Educate Yourself and Prioritise
Ideally, your bosses will respect you enough to let you schedule your own time, says Julie Pinyan, an executive assistant who supports two vice presidents. Julie educates herself as much as possible about her employer's goals and business sector, and then considers the importance of each task to her company's bottom line.
“The more I understand our business, the more I am able to make appropriate judgment calls about what needs to happen first,” Pinyan says.
Get Acquainted
Getting to know each boss's personality and management style is evermore crucial when you have multiple supervisors, Pinyan says. Listen closely, carefully observe each boss's habits and ask questions about preferences early in the working relationship. Then when two bosses give you a rush job at the same time, you are more likely to be able to efficiently get both tasks done.
Keep Your Cool
If you do feel stretched, take a deep breath and maintain a sense of humour, Carpenter says. Companies must ultimately realise that “if you are the one who must do it, then it will wait on you,” he adds. “If you stress out over every item on your to-do list, you will never get anything accomplished.”
