Question on Working With a New Documentation Supervisor - PleaseHelp

[Jonathan West]

Hi Anthony

That fact that you have already built up a fine reputation at the company is
your greatest asset here. This will protect you to some extent, because if
your new boss starts bitching about you, it will get noticed that his lack
of management skills is causing him to fail, either to get the best out of
you or to recognise the quality of what he has.

It is likely that you aren't the only person in the company who has suffered
from this person's management habits. Therefore, you need to find others who
work for him or have worked for him and find out from them what works when
dealing with him. Also, mention it to your former boss and ask him for tips.

If that doesn't work, then with your commanding and forceful personality,
you schedule a meeting with him. At that meeting, you lay out your concerns,
you state what you need from him in order to get your job done and so in the
process make him look good, and you ask him if there are any *specific*
things he wants and needs from you. If he is as meek as you suggest, he will
probably back off in the face of this and decide that he needs to leave you
alone.

If *that* doesn't work, then since you are already known to the CEO, you go
and have a quiet chat with him about it, and ask him what can be done
(including what *you* can do) to improve things. By the time you get to this
point, I suspect that your stress levels will have risen to the point where
it is affecting your health. You should mention this. The company (and
therefore the CEO) has a duty of care towards you, and won't want you off
work for stress-related illnesses.

Regards
Jonathan West

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