Unlock career growth with skip level meeting tips

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In 2015, I joined Pinterest as a software engineer after my company’s acquisition. It was difficult for the 500-person company to go from the five-person company, especially since I never worked in a hypergrath organization. I spoke earlier Best Practice for OnboardingBut I especially want to focus on an area that I have badly neglected: skip-level one-on-one meeting.

Your “skip” is the person your manager reports, often a director or vice -president. This is when you “leave” your manager the reporting series. Many ideas from the previous newspaper, 1: 1 meet with your bossTake here, but skip-level 1: 1 should be treated differently. Skip meeting may either feel nerve-wrakeing or irrelevant for many engineers, but this is really a unique opportunity to speed up. Livelihood,

Here’s how you can get the highest value from your skip-level meetings:

• Understand the overall strategy of your organizationYour skip manager has a set of extensive scope and responsibilities compared to most of the people, with which you interact. This means that they are naturally equipped to answer questions around the organizational strategy. Ask them what their priorities are, and how your work contributes to the priorities they care.
• Share “on the ground” insightNo matter how many hands they are, senior leaders are often cut off from day to day work. As an individual contributor, you are well equipped to share the experience of working both good and bad. This can be particularly valuable if you can suggest ideas to improve the productivity of all.
• Be honest with responseFor a truly effective skip-level meeting you should be oblivious to share real problems and provide honest response. This is an opportunity to discuss systemic issues that your direct managers cannot address on their own.

In Pinterest, one of the first decisions I had to do was which team I would join within the company. If I had taken advice properly from the director, I could have received valuable response about areas with high-primaryity in the company. Whether you are new or not in a company, do not understand the value of having a relationship with your management chain.

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