Welcome to Manager Tools. Today, the Proactive Manager, Chapter 1, Reporting Part 1.

The questions this guest answers are, can I change how I report to my boss and the company?

What can I do differently about reporting and running my team?

Do I have to keep reporting the same stuff

that's always been reported?

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your budget this year. Sarah today we're talking about taking over a new team and the kind of acceptance of

previous norms that you might think you have to engage in.

We're here to share with you that some of that stuff, not necessary

and help you to understand how to do it appropriately.

When you've taken over a new team there's all kinds of things

that your predecessor did that you don't necessarily agree with, whether you worked for her or not.

And like virtually all managers you figure, oh know, that's the way it's done here,

you think to yourself, they have a good reason, why it's done this way.

And so you might not change anything right away and okay that's probably fine

until you get busy doing your job and then you likely forget to change anything at all

and all those good ideas about what should have happened

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