Understand, the fact that your boss, like yourself, is a humanbeing. Like everyone else, bosses come in all shapes and sizes.Like you, he has ambitions, aspirations, and dreams. Some hewill achieve, others he won't. Some bosses are good managers,others bad, but most fall somewhere in the middle range.
Unless you're working for a very small company, your bossprobably has superiors of his own - that no doubt can, and do,drive him crazy at times. What it boils down to more thananything else is, how well you and your boss can deal with theemotional roller coaster of everyday life, and perhaps mostimportantly, how each of you view your job.
To get along with you boss, or other people for that matter, youhave to know how to understand and react to personality traits,get inside your boss's head. In short, you need to develop yourhuman relations skills.
This does not mean becoming a ""yes" man and always siding withyour boss no matter how dumb a mistake he makes, or how big afool he makes of himself. Your boss may appreciate such blinddevotion, but unless you are willing to drop anchor and neveradvance up the corporate ladder, you also need to know when toput some distance between you immediate supervisor, and thepowers that be, because if your boss really goofs-up - you maybe shown the door at the same time your boss is!
Back to getting along with the boss, you of course need to geton and stay on his "good side," in short become a team playerThat means becoming the type of an employee everyone would liketo have work for them. Someone with a positive outlook, someonewho's also friendly, loyal, tolerant, compassionate,understanding, courteous and supportive. Someone who can take,and follow orders. Someone who can get the job done. Someone whoknows when to speak-up, and when to keep his mouth shut.
Regardless of what you think of your boss, the first thing youshould learn, is his style of supervising. The two extremes ofmanagement style, are a boss who enjoys playing the part of amilitary leader, where he, or she barks orders that must befollowed exactly without question, or the boss who maintains avery low profile, giving employees broad guidelines and thendisappearing. Fortunately, most bosses fall somewhere in betweenthe two extremes, or little actual work would ever get done!
If you have the type of personality that demands you must havevery specific orders or you're "afraid you won't do it right,"you better have a boss who is willing to spend the time watchingyour every step.
On the other hand, if you must be left to your own devices tomake things work to get the job done and resent the boss lookingover your shoulder or constantly "picking on you," you betterhave the type of boss who is willing to give you enough room todo your own thing.
Either way, if you are stuck with the "wrong kind" of boss itwill be a real source of irritation that frequently ends in younot seeing eye to eye with your supervisor.
If you can't change, or at least try, you would be better offfinding employment elsewhere - because the boss isn't going tochange his management style to please you!
It also pays dividends to learn what your boss likes anddislikes, and then adapt what you do to suit his personality andmanagement style. All bosses expect their workers to know how todo their job, and to get it do it correctly, and on time, butproblems are bound to come up in any business. One thing thatcan really "set off" your boss is not handling problems like "hethinks" they should be handled.
Remember, he's the boss, so be sure to learn how he wants you tocommunicate problems. Does he prefer you put it in writing,arrange a meeting, or just drop-in his office anytime you have aquestion? Use common sense. If the boss is in a bad mood, orotherwise having a bad day, he's probably not in the properframe of mind to listen to any new suggestions, or for you toask to go home early, take a day off, or get a raise.
Besides consideration for the boss's mood, and receptiveness onany particular day to listen to new ideas, the employee whothinks he has a good idea for changing an operating procedure,should always re-think his idea through from every angle beforepresenting it to the boss.
You should give your boss the feeling of confidence that you'rea team player and you want to be the one he or she can depend onto make his or her job easier. You should try to figure out whatyour boss's goals are, then help him to reach those goalsthrough your contributions as a good employee.
Basically, the good employee is the one who is ready and in themood to go to work at the designated time.
- A good employee knows his job, inside and out, and if faced withsomething new, puts in the necessary time on his own, to try andfigure things out, then presents options to the boss, whodecides if any changes in policy or procedures are needed.
- A good employee doesn't take time off except for real illness oremergencies. He's the one who does his work, gets the job done,and is proud of his contribution to the overall success of thecompany he works for. He's one who's ready to help a fellowemployee or newcomer without having to be asked to do so.
- A good employee lets the boss know that he's completed his work,and is free to assist him or her with special projects. He's theone who doesn't camp out at the water cooler or coffee machineengaging his fellow workers in idle gossip. He's the one whosets up his work area either for the person on the next shift,or so that he'll be ale to go right to work when he comes in thenext day.
All of these things and more, are the basic ingredients to thedefinition of a good employee, and being a good employee is thebest way of getting along with the boss! The practice of goodhuman relations and displaying the virtues of the idealemployee, requires the constant use of one's common sense forultimate success. On needs to be aware of the boss'ssensitivities, and eccentricities. If he bristles at any hint ofcriticism of how he does things, he needs a subordinate who'llbe willing to work under less then ideal conditions.
So, the bottom-line to getting along with any boss is first be agood employee yourself. Master human relations. Understand thatyour boss is a human being just like yourself - with a job todo, and bosses of his own to answer to. So do everything you canto make his or her job easier. It will go a long way to makingyour job easier and having a good working relationship with theboss!
If you can master the all important "people skills," someday youmay enjoy the power and prestige of being the boss, and enjoyingall the perks and other trappings of being in charge!
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When someone is injured or suddenly becomes ill, there is usually a critical period before you can get medical treatment and it is this period that is of the utmost importance to the victim. What you do, or what you don't do, in that interval can mean the difference between life and death. You owe it to yourself, your family and your neighbors to know and to understand procedures that you can apply quickly and intelligently in an emergency.Every household should have some type of first aid kit, and if you do not already have one, assemble your supplies now. Tailor the contents to fit your family's particular needs. Don't add first aid supplies to the jumble of toothpaste and cosmetics in the medicine cabinet. Instead, assenble them in a suitable, labeled box (such as a fishing tackle box or small took chest with hinged cover), so that everything will be handy when needed. Label everything in the kit clearly, and indicate what it is used for.
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