Any advice for how to build effective relationships with those managers. Should I have less frequent O3's with them? Any other tips or podcasts that could help?
Submitted by Joseph Beckenbach on Thursday November 5th, 2015 8:25 am
My general impression is that not doing "skip O3's" is the preferred course of action. There's other mechanisms to communicate downward, while upward needs to include the intermediate manager as a matter of course. See forum thread https://www.manager-tools.com/forums/skip-o3 for some starters; augment by typing "skips" into the search box on this page or the home-page.
There's a podcast https://www.manager-tools.com/2010/12/meeting-a-senior-executive which talks about such a meeting from the subordinate's perspective.
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My general impression is that not doing "skip O3's" is the preferred course of action. There's other mechanisms to communicate downward, while upward needs to include the intermediate manager as a matter of course. See forum thread https://www.manager-tools.com/forums/skip-o3 for some starters; augment by typing "skips" into the search box on this page or the home-page.
There's a podcast https://www.manager-tools.com/2010/12/meeting-a-senior-executive which talks about such a meeting from the subordinate's perspective.