When Bosses are Two?

My very first observation during the IMAG stint was that every division does everything for the brand they handle. Right from the ideation to the execution and till the post evaluation, all divisions do all of this. The most exciting division to work in was Healthcare.

The task we got in this division was stimulating for the mind and very interesting to work on. This entire project was about checking out the feasibility of opening an institute which will train nurses and help them in going abroad and hooking them with a hospital abroad. Not only we needed to surf the internet a lot but we had an added task of reporting to two bosses. Dr. Menda and Dr. Shukla were the two mentors that we were reporting to at one time.

Dr. Menda is a practicing doctor as opposed to Dr. Shukla and hence the difference in expectations and perspectives. Every time we took the project a step forward, approval was needed from both of them. The toughest part was to handle differences in opinions. In a real work scenario if this is the situation, it will be ones ability to convince both bosses to their own point of view.

It takes a lot of patience and an open mind to take in two pieces of information that are opposites. It also gets important not to put down any one of them in front of another. Somehow I feel a session on conflict management can really help us perform better in similar situations.

I feel that I have completed my week long stint with Healthcare successfully since our team was able to bring both our bosses to the same platform. Definitely it took a lot effort and a lot of hard work to keep both the mentors satisfied. But, at the end of it, it is us who are satisfied and our work gets due approval.

Tanya