How to manage your bosses

Managing Bosses ProfessionallyPresented by Sourena Nouri, Aga Arafat and Homero OliveiraTeacher: Manon Wascher

Introduction

According to John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter managing your boss means

“ Working with your superior to obtain the best possible result for

• You

• Your boss

• The company”

Benefits of listening to our presentation

1. You will transform your work environment into a better place

2. Tighten up laces between you and your boss

3. It will make of you a better professional

Why manage your boss?

The relationship that you create and manage with your immediate boss is

Critical for your work success and career progress

Like it or not, you’re in charge of your relationship with your boss

Training Activity

Activity -7 MinEach team will have a picture, a title and a description which don’t belong to each other. The teams should negotiate with other teams and find the best match.

Team 1 (KHOA-JUAN-KARIM-EDUARD) Incompetent Boss

Team 2 (MITCHELL-ZEYNAB-RODNEY) Bossy Boss

Team 3 (BRENNO-SHAHIN-NAJMEH) Bully Boss

Team 4 (MOSHARROF-CHRISTOPHER-DIOGO) Perfectionist Boss

Team 5 (KULDEEP-CAMILIO-MAUDE-CELENE) Influencer Boss

End12345678910Incompetent Bully BossyPerfectionistInfluencer

Kinds of Bosses

Incompetent Bully Bossy Incompetent Influencer • Inability to make decisions

• Tendency to make bad choices

• Reliance on subordinates to get work done

• Ability to keep the job despite failings 

•Allergy to deadlines

Incompetent Bully Bossy Perfectionist Influencer

• Verbally abuses you

• Questions your adequacy and your

commitment

• Impedes your success

• Spreads rumors about you

• Isolates you at work

Incompetent Bully Bossy Perfectionist Influencer

• self-centered

• lack empathy

• have exaggerated sense of self-

importance

• get more agitated when they feel like

negative emotions are being dumped

on them

Incompetent Bully Bossy Perfectionist Influencer

•Micro-manager

•Likes to control all of your work

•have a hard time trusting others to make

decisions and allowing them to act

autonomously

•Leaves you with very little trust in your own

abilities

•Nothing you do will ever be good enough for

him

Incompetent Bully Bossy Perfectionist Influencer

•The supportive motivator

•Treats everyone with fairness regardless of

politics

•Communicates

•Encourages others to follow suit

•Leads by example

How to deal with each kind of boss

How to deal with the incompetent Boss

• Realize your manager probably thinks you’re hard to manage.

• Keep doing a great job• Explore ways that succeeding with your current manager makes you

better • Focus on the future rather than complaining about the past. • Promote yourself out of your organization

How to deal with the Bully Boss

▪ Relax and try not to keep it personally

• Go to HR and tell them the problem

• find another position in a company with a different manager

• Change your job where you can be a better fit with your next

manager

How to Deal with the Bossy boss

• Be respectful

• Be assertive, not aggressive.

• Be logical, not emotional

• Be a good listener

• Be a person who “flies under the radar” – if you can.

How to Deal with The Perfectionist boss

• Find the source(Fear of failure, The need for performance, the only type of management they know)

• Show them a better path

•  Avoid surprises

• Delegate, delegate, delegate

• Anticipate the requests

How to Deal with The Influencer Boss

• Perform your duties well enough

• Don’t be a threat to his goals

• Be aware that he always form his own core group

who may inform him of what happens in the office

while he is away

• Behave highly professional as he/she expects

Do / Don’t with your Boss

Do1. Take time to understand your manager’s perspective.2. Work on developing trust3. Confirm expectations4. Learn about your manager’s work style5. Understand what is important.6. Respect your manager’s time.7. Provide positive feedback

Do / Don’t with your Boss

Don’t1. Don't create a policy every time somebody messes up

2. Don't lie

3. Don't hide behind policies or senior management when

you have to be tough.

Conclusion

We may not have the luck of working with good leaders but we definitely have to work with bosses.

At the end of the day, employees do not leave jobs or organizations, they leave their bosses.