SBPPSE-OB-2019

What a manager does?

Name: Tushar Vasudev

Job title: Product Manager

Description of the Organization: Media & Entertainment Company

How long have you been a manager, and how many people have you managed?

3 years approx. Around one year in this company and 2 year in previous company. Currently
overlooking a team of 6, was earlier managing a team of 8.

Q1. Tell me how do you organise your work and schedule your time?

He trys to do the most thinking part in morning then shift to tasks which are less cognitive to the
afternoon. Focuses on one thing at a time, gives intense focus when working rest of the time easy
going and laid back. Try to have a good 7-8-hour sleep. If you are not sleeping enough, you won’t be
able to learn new things and if you are spending whole day in front of computer. Try to give yourself
8 hours of sleep.

Q2. What part of this job do you personally find most satisfying? Most challenging?

He personally like that he is doing a moral job, in a way reporting about movies and TV shows is
helping many people relive their daily stress, he feel good in a way that he is helping people ease out
their mind.

Learning new things everyday is quite irritating and boring, so continuously learning things becomes
irritating at times.

Q3. How do you build rapport and create trust among your employees?

he thinks he need to share our vulnerabilities, admit mistakes when others do it. Make some lite
hearted fun of your colleagues and allow them to make fun of yours. That’s how you form trust.

Q4. How to successfully deal with underperforming employees?

He thinks everyone has to set very realistic timelines with people, give them time, don’t expect
people to give you 100% from day 1. Turning an underperforming employee to performing one takes
time, by weekly gradual changes we can turn the trajectory.

Q5. Do you regularly receive constructive performance feedback from your boss?

Definitely, often my thinking is biased and emotion driven that’s when his seniors have often
intervened and help him realise his emotional barriers and cognitive biases

Q6. As a manager how to enhance the working environment for free and open expression of ideas,
opinions and beliefs.
He first try not to force his ideas on others, try to observe what other’s ideas are trying to achieve, if
their ideas are giving result then he don’t feel he need to intervene. If their ideas are not giving
results then obviously, then he try to show them what they can change.

Q7. Which motivation element satisfy you in your current job.

Formed very good friendship with people here and that is quite satisfying and motivating to come
here every day.

Q8. What factors of motivation you as a manager take into consideration when trying to get results
through employees?

What he thinks is that keeping expectation quite realistic, everyone wants to do better. Instead just
yelling to do better, help them overcome their anxieties, provide them support and build some
minor competition among the group. This worked for him…

Q9. Can you suggest how one can have mutual respect and understanding with a boss. Also, how to
effectively communicate any disagreements to your boss?

Best thing to do here is be honest about what you can deliver, try to promise less and deliver more.
And you will always going to make mistakes; accept it when your gut tells you that you have done
this thing is wrong and then work on solution.

Q10. What is a common way you see people fail as managers?

They try to be very mechanical and numbers driven, you are dealing with other people like yourself.
Treat others the way you want to be treated.

Q11. How do you recover from setbacks? Can you share about any recent incident?

Watch movies, goes for comedy shows. Drinks sometime. Then after some time that thing stops
bothering him.