{"id":907,"date":"2012-10-08T10:41:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-08T14:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/?p=907"},"modified":"2016-04-30T01:26:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-30T05:26:50","slug":"keeping-a-log","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/2012\/10\/08\/keeping-a-log\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping a Log"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While talking to a friend this past week, she was telling me about a co-worker that was very negative, rude, and in some ways would do things just to stop progress. Whether it is on purpose or not he causes a bad work environment. The problem is management doesn&#8217;t see most of it.\u00a0 He acts different when he is around management and they feel he is difficult to replace.<\/p>\n<p>It reminded me of something I learned from one of my mentors. It is a good way to back up your case. A few years ago I was contracted by a company, at first everything was good but when I had to work with a not very appealing graphic designer things took a bad turn. He made it his job to get me fired. At every turn he would throw me under the bus. My Mentor suggested keeping a log. Then everything that this graphic guy would say to me, I would email him a copy of the notes. It was a record of everything he said. If he had a problem with any thing, he had an opportunity to correct it by emailing me back. It didn&#8217;t stop him from being a jerk to me but it stopped him from being able to throw me under the bus because I could show the owner each and every conservation notes.<\/p>\n<p>The logs were fairly simple. Here is what I kept track of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What he or I actually wanted to talk about.<\/li>\n<li>Notes of anything that was said.<\/li>\n<li>How I felt his mood was.<\/li>\n<li>What was the outcome of our conversation.<\/li>\n<li>What would be the next strategic action for me or for him to move the project forward.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When I would report to the owner, I would bring along the notes. By focusing on what was said and the expectation the two of us had, I was able to better see where I was on task or off task and ultimately why things weren&#8217;t getting done or done more slowly.<\/p>\n<p>Keeping notes not only helped keep projects moving forward, I was able to document my own work which in the end was a huge plus to this and future projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While talking to a friend this past week, she was telling me about a co-worker that was very negative, rude, and in some ways would do things just to stop progress. Whether it is on purpose or not he causes a bad work environment. The problem is management doesn&#8217;t see most of it.\u00a0 He acts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-culture","category-employee-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=907"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3243,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/907\/revisions\/3243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.changinglanes.biz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}