My new boss seems unorganized?

Don’t allow yourself to not communicate. Such things are a pet peeve of mine…

You have to tell her. She may know she’s unorganized. Just be tactful. This isn’t wonderful. But you’ll have to be an advocate for yourself.

Ugh I hope this isn’t normal practice for miscommunications lol

^^ Hopefully, the wrinkles will get smoothed out.

Maybe you could blame it on a glitch. I’ve actually had it happen where emails were sent and the sender never got a kick-back, but I never recieved them (and all email addresses were accurate). Just keep being polite, but you must pursue your training as they expect you to do.

Perhaps your job is actually to organize your boss.

I would just let her know the trainers were not aware of the meeting so it needs to be rescheduled. I would just be matter of fact, let it get fixed, and move on. We don’t know if this is just a bad week for her or if she is always like this. Mistakes happen. Make a mental note to make sure things are in the calendar for you and those you are supposed to meet with.

If she apologizes just tell her it’s no problem and is there any work you can do in the meantime. I always really liked when my bosses made a mistake, because that hopefully meant when I made a mistake they would be understanding. @stanleybmanly might be right that part of your job will be helping your boss be organized. Maybe she is overwhelmed since your position has been open.

Talk to her. If she says she is overwhelmed with work, tell her you will help ease the load.
My crew used to tell our managers that part of our jobs was to get the manager promoted. We often did.

I agree with other people, you have to tell her. If you don’t, she may blame your lack of training on you.

Perhaps YOU should have a checklist now after knowing of your bosses lack of organization…ask questions more to get a complete understanding and verifications of meeting times, people to meet up with places , well before the allotted time.
That way YOU are well prepared, and never mind about her, as in effect by asking these questions she herself WILL be trained by you to be ready.

This has been an insane 11 months-or-so to be a boss. If she was trying to deal with doing the work of an open position, managing COVID-related stuff, and end-of-year, I would be shocked if she was perfectly organized.

As others said, communication is best. Be polite and offer to be as flexible/accommodating as possible. Offer to reschedule with the trainers directly if she would like, to take a couple of things off her to-do list.

I wouldn’t point fingers. I’d just say “they said the training wasn’t scheduled so I have to attend another day.” Not, “You never scheduled it so I couldn’t do it.”

I’d lay low since it’s a new job. I’d not get off on the wrong foot by making accusations.

Just relay what you were told. It could be your boss or it could be someone forgot to read their email or it was sent somewhere else. Just say there seems to be a mix up about my training and I was told that they didn’t receive notice of my training and it needs to be scheduled. I’ve sent messages sometimes waiting for a reply and it turns out I didn’t hit send and was still sitting in draft. It happens to everyone.