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So a few weeks back we had a huge double truck and all leaders from every area were involved with trying to get this pushed to the floor as efficiently and safely as possible.
We had a lot of team members working on the floor pushing this product out.
I made a verbal call to some of the team members to prioritize one area of push over another. After I did this one of the Service & Engagement team leaders nearby interrupted me and asked me why I wanted them to do this and what I was talking about...I explained briefly, then the SETL said in front of the team "No we're going to do this I'm making the call here sorry..." And the team looked confused and just did what she said.
I'm a GMTL so I thought I had priority here as this was a GM area I was giving direction for. I didn't want to escalate the situation so I didn't say anything.
However I felt this was a very bad call to override my direction as another TL since we're both TL's in a GM area and in front of all the team members?!?
I think the appropriate action would have been to let me finish my direction and if they didn't like it talk to me on the side so we could discuss it instead of just straight up in front of everyone saying "No this is what we're gonna do".
I feel that makes the team have less respect for me like my direction doesn't mean anything...
What would you guys have done in this situation?
We had a lot of team members working on the floor pushing this product out.
I made a verbal call to some of the team members to prioritize one area of push over another. After I did this one of the Service & Engagement team leaders nearby interrupted me and asked me why I wanted them to do this and what I was talking about...I explained briefly, then the SETL said in front of the team "No we're going to do this I'm making the call here sorry..." And the team looked confused and just did what she said.
I'm a GMTL so I thought I had priority here as this was a GM area I was giving direction for. I didn't want to escalate the situation so I didn't say anything.
However I felt this was a very bad call to override my direction as another TL since we're both TL's in a GM area and in front of all the team members?!?
I think the appropriate action would have been to let me finish my direction and if they didn't like it talk to me on the side so we could discuss it instead of just straight up in front of everyone saying "No this is what we're gonna do".
I feel that makes the team have less respect for me like my direction doesn't mean anything...
What would you guys have done in this situation?
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