How To Manage Your Boss!

Being a Boss is not easy!!!!
You need to be a Swiss Knife. Managing team will be easy if you make your team understand & guide on "How to Manage Your Boss"

You sometime wondering How a dump colloegue is so close and have a great proxy to the Boss & I am not. Well !!! Not more. !!!
Here some of my Bullet Points. Whether you are a Boss or a Sub, below write-up should help to both. Read on !!!!!!

First, Please clearly understand, Your boss is NOT someone you can choose.
You HAVE to work at building a positive relationship with this person, who is so important to your career. Here is how you could go about it.

1. Do your job well with a non-threatening work style.
The starting point is obvious and basic- do your job well. And in addition to this, an extremely important point- adopt a non threatening work style. Your work style should not communicate to your boss in any way that you believe that you know more than him/her, or that you do not respect his/her superiority and authority.

2. Understand your boss' working style & work within it.

Find out different aspects of your boss' working style. What makes your boss tick?

What are his/her goals?
What does he/she expect from you?
Does he/she have any idiosyncrasies e.g. getting the credit for all work done?
What is he/she particular about e.g. punctuality?
What irritates him/her?
When is your boss most approachable?

3. Adopt the problem solving approach at work

Do not just oppose and disagree with your boss' ideas. Come up with a solution. And justify it with a well thought out plan.

4. Communicate and keep your boss informed

Keep your boss updated regularly on the status of work in the pipeline. This will make him/her look good and will let you breathe easy!

5. Do not condemn your boss to others.

This is something you really have to watch out for as it is very common to crib about your boss to your colleagues. It often makes you feel better to have someone to complain to, who could agree with you and confirm your negative emotions about your boss. Avoid using this as a way of getting friendly with your colleagues or a way of joining one of the power camps in the organisation. Resist the temptation to bad mouth your boss. Try to grin and bear it if you are stuck with a difficult boss till you find a workable solution. Going to the Human Resources department and complaining will not help. It is a misconception that the Human resources department will sort out such problems at work. They are concerned primarily with the needs of the organisation as a whole and not such issues related to specific individual problems. A move such as complaining to HR could probably get back to your boss and will only make matters worse.

If you try and follow some of these guidelines, you could end up with a positive relationship with your boss. Remember, the situation is not that bad. You as a subordinate, are also very important to the boss!

And if you find yourself in a terribly hopeless and frustrating relationship with your boss, despite your repeated attempts to improve things- do not lose heart. It's not the end of the world! Just pack up and move on!