Things To Say To The Boss
He's coming for a visit on Tuesday. Things to discuss:
What's been good?
- Get to learn about the way they do business here. Never knew much about construction until now.
- Working in another culture. Americans are quite clear in what they want, so gathering requirements is slightly easier (maybe cause I'm working with existing systems)
- Visiting different offices, meeting new people. ICT can get insulated from what happens out on the sites, it's good to get out and about.
- Working by myself. Having no team around is hard to bounce ideas and work off the energy of each other. Reporting to a manager in another office makes the relationship quite distant.
- Not working at full capacity. Could change when the project actually gets into gear, but I could do with some more work. Should I be thinking up and proposing new activities e.g. the money saved on a project using the tax exemption?
- How's the ICT strategy going in terms of being implemented, now in its last year?
- Are we addressing the business' need for ICT adding value? Have we been involved in any construction ICT work?
- Where will the New York office be in a year or two? What kind of ICT service will we be providing to them by the end of my stay here?
- How's the Sydney office going? And how are those new projects going along?
2 comments:
working by yourself is a little boring isn't it - no body to really chat to etc. although it can also have its perks :)
good luck with your meeting!
I can't believe you only worked out NOW what construction is about? What have you been doing in LL for all these years?
Man, if you were here, I'd drag you out to a site and leave you there for week!
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