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Just to echo what has already been said; executives are usually business/econ degree types who will glaze over as soon as you start trying to talk about what you are specifically doing. Just say 'here's my value to the company. Here's how much I bring in. Here's what we could be doing. Here is how much we are losing by not doing what I am recommending.' Just keep it very bottom line oriented. It's fair to mention that you could be expanding business (and thus making the company more money) if you had more leeway, but what you should *not* do is throw anyone under the bus and go 'this department head is keeping us down' or 'my boss and I don't mesh because of X.' quote:-I have to talk to high level executives more that do not understand the technical aspects of what I do. I'd love to learn how to talk to them about how what I do impacts the things that they care about. That's fine, just treat your technical aspects as a function. You can say what it does and what the end result is based on what input without having to explain the actual function you are calling line by line. They won't get technical stuff and they might not even care to get it. I have an interest in technical stuff but at some point when an engineer is explaining something to me I kind of handwave and go 'what is the effect on our financials?' They just want to know what relationship your work has with the money more than anything else. If you can demonstrate that your company could be making more money by implementing your suggestions, they should be amenable. This all assumes your company has competent/reasonable management. It could very well be the case that they're a bunch of morons in which case it might not be a bad idea to break off and start your own little firm. You were vague about what you do so I don't know how viable that is but if your clients/vendors like what you do and you could be doing better it's worth thinking about. I'm not quite sure how to go about suggesting your department become its own big department with you as the head without looking like you're going over anyone's head... that's something that really depends on the company. I've seen companies where employees feel free to email the CEO and I've seen companies where that's totally verboten. I would suggest getting a few of your biggest clients to mention the work you do to the upper level execs themselves - if a few clients say 'gee I really like working with this person and I wish they had more leeway without having to double check with whatever department all the time' that's probably the best scenario. Moridin920 fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Oct 19, 2015 |
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