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Feedback Regarding Project Follow-Up Questions

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Feedback Regarding Project Follow-Up Questions

What are your thoughts for this situation?

A manager assigns a project to an employee to complete by next Friday via email. Manager gave the employee a week notice. If the employee has any questions, the manager wants to openly help regarding the project.

The employee acknowledges the project and responds with a question to the email after reviewing the project, after about 2 hours of attempting the project independently.

The manager responds quickly with I’ll get back to you on this shortly.

Now, the employee is waiting for a response from the manager and it’s Wednesday. The project is due Friday. Now instead of a full week to complete the project the employee gets 2 days to complete it.

Should the employee kindly follow up with their questions again to the manager as a reminder or give the manager more time to respond?

How much time going forward do you need to give your manager before you follow-up?

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  1. Anonymous

    Stay vigilant and keep pressing the manager.

  2. Anonymous

    Respectfully, did you read the post?

    How long does the project take? Manager gave the employee a week to complete which was noted. With a deadline of a week, manager wants the project done and should be completed within that timeline.

    When was this assigned? Manager sent on a Friday, which was noted in the post.

    Is it critical? Manager asked for it to get completed by the employee, so yes I would say so.

    What questions asked by the employee was not relevant because the manager acknowledged the questions from the employee and manager stated they would get back shortly. And manager wanted to openly support the employee in project.

    Is there any other way for the employee to continue without managers reply? Interesting perspective… what do you mean? I understand the creative part for that, but most managers want a project to be done a certain way. If the manager has an expectation for the project to be done by Friday, don’t you think it’s important for the employee to do well on it/meet expectations of a manager?

  3. Anonymous

    Clearly the manager is not making the time to support you to get this done without it being a firedrill for you in a crunch to complete. Best is to email them and let them know again the questions you have, put time on their calendar for a quick 10 minute touchbase to cover those and let them know you don't want to run out of time to do a great job of it. If you still get no response I would do the best you can and if there are choices to be make like A or B to get it done right make the best decision based upon what you do know and see how it goes. In the post mortem after the project is completed and you review its success or failure best is to let them know if their input or lack thereof on certain things made the project fail for you.

  4. Jessica Ferland

    If the manager was open about engaging in the process, I would have followed up the next business day to find out if there is an answer or if still waiting on clarity. I would have included some context that this is holding up my ability to progress the project. I mean, collaboration right?

  5. Anonymous

    Follow up ASAP. In that situation, good to follow up the following morning, to bring the request back to the top of their InBox.

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