Career Advice: Hate your Boss not!
Billions of employees all over the world would, at least once in their life, confess that they hate their boss (could be any boss though). Employees will be employees and bosses will be bosses. But what won’t change is that there’s always something that you can learn from your boss.
Bosses can be bugging and the torture they make you undergo may make you feel bad things about them but there is always a positive side to every boss’s way of dealing with work place issues while managing a team.
For just once if you can forget being inferior in position and try being receptive to the positive radiation, you can definitely learn a lot from your boss. Absorb everything your boss or your superiors have to say, what they do, how they do it – that is one of the most precious achievements one can make while in a job. Those who have ceased to take this positively so far, don’t even bother reading further; this gyan is not for Bozo’s.
If you are to grow in your career then simple things like managing and motivating your team are the most essential skills you’ll need often and no school can teach that better than your own boss. Such skills are acquired with time and experience. B-Schools will teach you guidelines to tackle a team, but implementing those learnings in real life actually build skills like team management and team motivation. And your Boss has had the taste of twists & rapids of being in a leadership role and learned these skills.
Remember, the aforesaid skills are part of every boss’s daily tasks more than just grinding your ass all the time. So if you aspire to lead a team someday then get ready for the knowledge you can gain.
1. Seek your seniors’ advice
Well, this is the karma of success in life anyway. Give up all your ego and approach your seniors for advice once you have a solution to a problem. Seek their advice and see if there is more they can add to the solution you suggested. This will not only expose you to newer ways of solving a problem but also teach you how to deal with your subordinates when they come to you with their problems.
2. Observe when you’re being praised
Every boss has his/her own way of praising their team mates and it’s an art. The best way they can do this is by making the deserving person feel proud and ensure others take it as healthy competition instead of getting jealous. Jealousy is the worst thing that can pop-up in a team; it leads to negative waves within the team.
3. Team Productivity v/s Deadline
Meeting deadlines with a team is never easy for any boss. Building an efficient team is one of the biggest challenges one can face at workplace. Learn it form your boss; making deadlines, planning product delivery and building the team’s morale.
4. Time Management
Time crunch is again another bug in everyone’s bed. No matter how much we try we never seem to find time for things we have always wanted to do. At times the same reflects at work while managing multiple tasks. Prioritising tasks whether your own or your team mates’ is a skill that you will learn on the job. Take these lessons from your boss; it is an asset worth collecting. Time is wealth and being a good time manager will turn this wealth into a treasure (no second thoughts about it).
5. How to be efficient with deliverables
No one can be absolutely perfect at anything; however one can always maximise on proficiency of doing something. Bosses keep on bugging you for better quality of work because one thing most of the people at a sub-level miss in their deliverables is the passion to make it the best in this world. A boss, to some extent, has that obsession for better quality of work and deliverables. So whenever your boss squeezes you over-time to correct a certain deliverable, take it as a constructive feedback about your work. That won’t only help you become more efficient with your work but also allow you to taste the nector of true quality. Trust me, there’s no better taste than the taste of success, especially when you have succeeded in making a HIGH-QUALITY product or a deliverable.
That’s all for now for people who have a good boss and for those who are not that fortunate try taking your boss’s criticism as a positive constructive feedback and learn the way they tackle issues – it’s really going to help.
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