How do you handle conflicting priorities?
- Schedule Work Effectively. Your first step is to clarify your current priorities and to manage your schedule effectively.
- Negotiate Deadlines. Once you’ve clarified your priorities, look at your responsibilities and identify any deadlines that you need to re-negotiate.
- Manage Expectations.
- Be Professional.
- Be Flexible.
How do you manage senior stakeholders?
Success with Senior Stakeholders – Top tips of how to get there
- Always try to sell the bigger picture.
- Choose your communication style carefully.
- Practice the art of listening.
- Work on being confident, even in difficult situations.
- Manage expectations and potential conflicts.
- Deliver on your promises.
How do you handle changes to requirements?
Establish where you are now and how you will handle changes when something else changes – because it will!
- Clear set of requirements. Go back to your scope document, terms of reference, business case or project charter.
- Set expectations.
- Create (or review) the change control process.
How do I give advice to senior management?
Use empathy to understand what senior management actually cares about and then speak to those pain points.
- Use visuals. Imagine being a graphic artist and trying to explain your work instead of just showing it.
- Use data.
- Get to the point.
- Don’t read from a deck of slides.
- Prepare for the worst.
- Practice.
How do you handle a difficult team member?
How to Build Respect in a Team: Dealing with Difficult Team…
- Be positive and stay cool. Do not get swept up by the negativity.
- Observe your team. Identify the members whom you consider to be “difficult” to handle.
- Have a talk with the team.
- Be available.
- Work together.
- Wait, and don’t forget to give gentle reminders and compliments.
How do you deal with a team member who constantly oppose your ideas?
HBR Guide to Managing Conflict at Work
- Explicitly ask for opposition.
- Ask each person to share an opposing view.
- Don’t instinctively resist the opposition.
- Don’t demonize opposers.
- Give feedback to the person opposing.
- Be transparent about your reactions and self-management.
How do you handle employees who don’t respect you?
Try these steps to gain respect as a leader.
- Get in learning mode. Just as your new team must adapt to you, so must you adapt to them.
- Be transparent about your motives.
- Don’t just welcome feedback—seek it out.
- Praise in public; correct in private.
- Tell staff what to do, not how to do it.
- Breathe: You’ve got this.
How do you deal with subordinates who don’t respect you?
How To Lead An Employee Who Doesn’t Respect You:
- Assess: Are you feeling disrespected or is this employee displaying disruptive behavior?
- Determine: If the issue is your ego, let it go.
- Give the feedback: If the behavior is disruptive, sit them down and give them constructive criticism.