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No Surprises Reporting.

This cast answers these questions.

What do I do if a report has bad news in it?

Are all reports the same?

How do I notify my boss if one of my reports has a problem?

Well if you want the answers to those questions, keep listening. Here we go.

Submitting a report that will raise eyebrows or cause concerns.

Yeah, that's a career learning move.

Yeah, well, if you're going to submit a report that does that, that raises people's eyebrows, then you have a responsibility to communicate additionally the what of it and the why of it to your boss.

Yeah, I agree. And in fact what's interesting to your boss. Yeah, I agree.

And in fact, what's interesting is, if you do the right work in advance,

it won't raise eyebrows, right?

That's the key.

That's right.

So look, you got to tell your boss,

if you have a report you're responsible for submitting

or that addresses work in your area, even area of responsibility, even if you don't actually

prepare the report, I'm thinking about digitally created

dashboard's and so on.

If there's something unusual in it, if there's some kind of bad news, you've got to tell your boss in advance.

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