Ten minutes after the email

When I got a new manager, she checked everything I did. Even things she didn't need to concern herself with at all. I constantly felt she didn't trust me to do my job.

One day an email came in asking me to set up a meeting. Ten minutes later she came over and asked me to set up that very meeting.

That was the moment I'd had enough. I told her very clearly that I'm perfectly capable of organising meetings and prioritising my own work. What I was really telling her was that she could trust me and that I know what I'm doing.

It worked. Since then she's treated me as an equal and lets me get on with my job.

I have to give her this, though: she has a really strong presence. That's something I can still learn from.