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Answer by NegativeJo for How can I provide meaningful and constructive feedback to a bad manager

Evaluate carefully the company culture before providing too candid of a feedback. In an ideal world , and company, smith's suggestion of being completely honest and hoping that your manager comes to their sense or that higher management will intervene can backfire. badly.

The main red flag and where I would worry If I were you is that in a sane and productive work environment you would be able to provide some of that feedback to your manager during the year and it would likely be taken into account.

"Hey boss, I would really be more productive if you [...] " Type of interactions.

Now you are heading in a year end review with a laundry list of complaints that shouts : 'I hate my boss'.

In my experience when your boss and boss's boss see this they will know for sure that the relation is mostly broken and the upper management will either side with you (quite unlikely) or with your boss (most likely).

If you end up in a worst case scenario you will have your boss becoming even more difficult and with no support from the upper management. This sets you up for a speedy exit (ie as soon as they have a chance, or as soon as the manager will really decide that he had enough)

I would suggest the following : try to focus on one (or two) points that you think can be big wins for you. Provide some actionable suggestions (instead of just a complaint) and include it in some other positive point in your year end review.

Some managers might even appreciate a heads-up on the couple of criticisms/suggestions you are making in their review.

Also if you intend to stay that will make further communications easier, and you might try to suggest improvements during the year by directly interacting with your manager during the year. Which should be the healthy way of dealing with those issues.

If it's still not improving, brush up your CV and look for another position, after all around half of the people leave their job because of their manager (see for example this gallup study)

Good luck !


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