Tell the boss how great you and your co-workers are - a podcast by Kent C. Dodds

Hey friends so today I wanted to talk about how important it is to
communicate and in particular I want to highlight the importance ofcommunicating what you and your team have done to your higher-ups. So
anytime that you or your member of your team does something spectacular youshould send an email to your boss or to your teammates bought.
So there's nothing wrong with saying hey boss, I did this thing and it was
really difficult and I really glad that it worked out and I just wanted tolet you know kind of celebratory whatever.Theres there's a way to do this
that isn't cocky um and the way that you do that is most of the time you
don't accomplish this without the assistance of anyone else.
And so you can say, hey I boss like I had this problem and I worked withthese other people and we figured it out and we just did an awesome job and
I just wanted to let you know that your team is awesome. I love workinghere. A Boston lab stitch here emails like that.
You can also do this if it wasn't your accomplishment, but somebody else's
and so you'd say, hey, I just wanted to you to know that Sammy did.This
amazing thing and she's just a rock star awesome person and yeah, I love
working with her whatever you wanted to say there um, and I think thereason that I think that this it's important for you to communicate these
sorts of things is most of the time like this is the manager's part of the
manager's job is to get an idea of what's going on on the ground, like
actually working on the product and it just helps them to accomplish their
job, but it also helps you to communicate to your boss the sorts of thingsthat you like to work on.
So,You know if you really enjoyed working on this particular task, then yousay I loved working in this it was really awesome opportunity. Thank you
for giving me this opportunity. If you didn't really like it you say, hey I
accomplished the thing. I'm glad that it's over. I never want to work on
this again.It just gives you an opportunity to connect with your higher-ups. And if
you're saying something like this to someone else's boss that's even better
because it makes that person and you don't have to include them you might
like BCC them.On the email to their boss's boss or whatever But it makes
them feel really good and feel a connection and maybe there will be somereciprocity, but that's not why you do it.
It just it increases the positivity in your organization, which I think isgood. It might give them a pay raise whatever and especially for those of
us in privilege positions. I think that it's really useful to do this as a
mechanism for lining your privilege to so I would really recommend this foryou in that position.
So anyway, I hope that you take an opportunity this week and just like,Findsomething that you can send to somebody's boss or your own and do it. See,
ya.

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