This is a touchy subject, it’s important to know that depending on the health of your relationship with your leader, leadership group and company…this could get you in hot water or even worse fired. It SHOULDN’T be that way, but there are a lot of companies out there where this is a reality. This isn’t advice specific to your life, take it as information to making your own decision.
The main key for this topic…you need to exhaust ALL options before doing this. You should have multiple documented attempts at getting your plan in place…if after multiple attempts, your leader passes on the opportunity to support you, then you can attempt to setup a skip level with his leader (if you don’t already have skip levels).
In this meeting, it’s important to not talk negative about your boss. It’s important to just layout your request/plan/idea and see how his boss responds. If they ask, why you didn’t bring it up to your boss, you can mention that you brought it to them a few times, but that they didn’t seem interested in being involved, but that you would love for them to be included.
Here is where it lives on or dies…if your boss passes on it and your bosses boss passes on it…it’s probably dead in the water. If you get lucky enough to have a convo with an Executive…then maybe throw the idea out, but I wouldn’t schedule time beyond your bosses boss. If you can’t get them to buy in, you are probably not going to get anyone else on board and more importantly, they may have context you aren’t aware of (feel free to ask them if there are concerns that keep them from backing the idea).
I hope this is helpful, thanks for being here! Reach out for questions or comments!
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