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Am I supposed to be honest in this situation?

BeaE

My manager has had a promotion, and is going through some leadership type training. She's asked me to fill out a questionnaire, and I don't know if I'm actually meant to be honest. It says you should be honest, but that is normally just something people say.

I know I have to be at least a bit filtered, as she will see the feedback and it's not anonymous.

It's questions like: 

Where do they make things harder than they need to be?

What is one thing they should stop doing or change to strengthen leadership?

Etc. etc. 

I have no idea what is acceptable to say. Does anyone have any idea?

You're also welcome just to respond with frustration about people saying they want honesty, when they actually don't Joy

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  • I would recommend considering this as a potentially problematic situaiton for you to be honest in.

    In your shoes I would only offer censored advice that does not make them look bad - you can still be honest but just not give every thought that you have (ie leave out the bad stuff).

    The reasons for this is that is sounds like they are becoming more powerful in the organisation and it does not pay to upset people with inconvenient truths sometimes

    This is one of those office politics moments when you could inadvertently upset them and they may not take kindly to you either not mentioning it before or "throwing it at them" when they have just had some success. 

    This is only my opinion based on 32 years of surviving office politics (and stepping on a few landmines along the way).

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  • I would recommend considering this as a potentially problematic situaiton for you to be honest in.

    In your shoes I would only offer censored advice that does not make them look bad - you can still be honest but just not give every thought that you have (ie leave out the bad stuff).

    The reasons for this is that is sounds like they are becoming more powerful in the organisation and it does not pay to upset people with inconvenient truths sometimes

    This is one of those office politics moments when you could inadvertently upset them and they may not take kindly to you either not mentioning it before or "throwing it at them" when they have just had some success. 

    This is only my opinion based on 32 years of surviving office politics (and stepping on a few landmines along the way).

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