Today has been pulling me down.

I told you I took over a project recently. With all due respect for the earlier project manager (I do admire his social skills and his enthusiasm), he was slack in deadlines, client commitments and so on. I came into the project and created a disturbance in the team with all the aggressiveness of meeting deadlines and staying with the commitments. This has caused a great stir within the team.

Yesterday my boss had a skip level meeting (where my boss meets my team without me) and they were all complaining about me. My boss informed to me in a very diplomatic way. Unlike my earlier two bosses in this department, the new boss is not very supportive rather he is a neutral guy.

So now I have managed to have the team, the boss and even the functional coordinators up against me.

When there is no one to share my feelings, it takes a lot of mental fortitude to keep the faith that I will come through this phase; that I will make the difference in the delivery of the team.

I feel down for the moment. 🙁