Backstabbing
your manager can backfire, but team work rewards
Bosses,
some with big egos, can be hard to manage. Here are some tips to be in the
chief’s good books.
- Initiative: set a few goals and seek the boss’s input and adjust accordingly. Make an effort to meet the boss and review to review progress and performance.
- Support: Don’t badmouth your manager. Give credit where he excels. You should build on his/her strength and focus on issues not personality. Build subsidiary support networks that enhance performance to the manager’s credit. Identify your manager’s peers and work closely with them.
- Timings: Approach your manager at the right time. Understand when he is more receptive and extremely busy.
- When and how to complain: you need to carefully craft a kind of approach when raising a point of concern without being an irritant.
- Strengthen credibility: There is need to act as you say and demonstrate leadership by meeting your commitments. Show the best of you and see and work towards the big picture of the boss.
- Team spirit: To demonstrate team spirit by being able to “chip in” where need arises or when called upon.
- Reminding boss: Given he is busy with, it is prudent to serve him as his memory on issues that he may have forgotten about.
- Humor bonds! Make your boss laugh.
By Julius
Olayo
(Career
Advisor)
