This document provides guidance on how to effectively manage one's boss. It discusses three key components: 1) Knowing your boss by understanding what motivates and pressures them, 2) Building skills like dependability, initiative, and positivity, and 3) Managing difficult boss types through understanding their communication styles and avoiding habits they dislike. Specific tactics include identifying a boss's working style, ways to make them happy, and handling tricky behaviors like lack of communication, credit-taking, and perfectionism. The overall aim is to develop a simple and rewarding relationship with one's boss where they look forward to interactions.

1. Wong Yew Yip
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Source : How to manage your boss - Ros Jay

2. What is Managing Your Boss?
Managing your boss is all
about making his/her
relationship with you
simple and rewarding.
The aim is that the boss
should look up with
pleasure when you walk
into the room, knowing
that you’ll be easy to get
on with, co-operative,
positive, reliable and
trustworthy.

3. The first thing you need to do . . .
The first thing you
need to do is to get
inside your boss’s
head.
If you don’t
understand what
makes your boss
tick, you can’t hope
to understand how
to manage him/her.

4. When top
level guys
look
down,
they see
only shit When
bottom
level guys
look up,
they see
only
assholes

5. 12 Types
of Bosses
The
Robot
1 2
The
Softie
3
The
Weasel
4
The
Mystery
5
The
Viper
6
The
Buddy
7
The
Miracle
9
The
Number
Cruncher
8
The
Monster
10
The
Innovator
11
The
Tuft
Hunter
12
The
Nitpicker
Learn how to
manage them

7. Managing Your Boss Model
Managing
Your
Boss
3
2 1
The 3 components:
 Knowing Your Boss
 Building Your Skills
 Managing Difficult Boss
Managing Your Boss Model

8. Knowing Your Boss1
If you want a first
class relationship with
your boss, you have to
start by getting to
know:
 what makes your
boss tick
 what pressures do
your boss face, and
 what makes your
boss’s boss tick

9. Knowing Your Boss1
YOUR STRATEGIES
 Understanding your Boss
 Be part of the Solution
not Problem
 Developing specific skills
to deal with your Boss
 Handling work stress
from Boss
 Creating the perfect
relationship

10. 12 Working Styles
of Bosses
Bureaucratic
1
Laid Back
2
Consultative
3
Non-
Consultative
4
Concerned
with details
5
Focused on
big picture
6
Creative
7
Organized
9
Logical
8
Un-
organized
10
Proactive
11
Reactive
12
Learn how to work
with them

11. Building Your Skills2
After Knowing Your Boss, you need to build up a raft of
skills for dealing with your Boss and people generally.
You’ll still need them when you or your Boss moves on
and you find yourself working with a new boss who may
be very different.

12. Building Your Skills2
YOUR SKILLS
 Coping with emotions
 Being assertive
 Listen and be listened to
 Using feedback
techniques
 35 Ways to get yourself
promoted

13. Be
Dependable
Take
Ownership
Stay
Organized
Make your
Boss Look
Good
Be
Prepared
Be a
Leader
Keep a
clean
workplace
Understand
the Vision
& Mission
Be
Punctual
Be
Resourceful
Go the
Extra Mile
Treat
Customers
Well
Be Honest
Take the
Initiative
Be Loyal
Be a Team
Player
Radiate
Positivity
Save the
Company
Money
Focus on
Work
Know the
Industry or
Business
20 Ways to
make your Boss
happy
Learn how to
make your Boss
happy
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8
11 12
9 10
13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20

14. Managing Difficult Boss3
Some of us are lucky to have perfect bosses while others
have to face bosses that are difficult to handle.
So, whether you like it or not, you have to learn to
handle the characteristics that make your boss difficult
to work with.

15. Managing Difficult Boss3
YOUR TACTICS
 20 Types of Tricky Bosses
 10 Things a Difficult Boss
says
 20 Habits that your Boss
won’t like
 Do’s & Don’ts in
managing a Difficult Boss

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17. The Boss
who never
communicates
The Boss
who never
does
anything
The Boss
who is
prejudiced
The Boss
who
throws
tantrums
The Boss
who is a
control
freak
The Boss
who won’t
back you
up
The Boss
who is no
good at
the job
The Boss
who never
listens
The Boss
who is a
perfectionist
The Boss
who is
unorganized
The Boss
who stalls
The Boss
who takes
credit for
your ideas
The Boss
who is
dishonest
The Boss
who is
always
right
The Boss
who
believes in
workaholism
The Boss
who is
simply
never there
The Boss
who is a
poor
motivator
The Boss
who is
negative
The Boss
who
passes the
buck
The Boss
who won’t
let you
develop
20 Types of
Tricky Bosses
Learn how to
handle them
1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8
11 12
9 10
13 14
15 16 17 18 19 20

18. Finally,
Managing
relationship with
your Boss takes skill,
time and effort
But, YOU should
take the lead
NOT your Boss

19. Thank You
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