This document provides concise business skills training through eight tips for effectively managing one's boss, emphasizing the importance of understanding personal and superior strengths, communication styles, and expectations. It promotes the Corporate Learning Institute's resources for improving organizational effectiveness through brief reading materials. For more information, readers are encouraged to visit their website.

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8 Tips for Managing Your Boss
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2. Introduction
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3. Managing Your Boss
According to John J. Gabarro and John P.
Kotter, managing your boss means
“working with your superior to obtain the
best possible results for you, your boss, and
the company.”
Gabarro, John J., and John P. Kotter. "Managing Your Boss." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 1 (January 2005).

4. 8 Tips for Managing Your Boss
Here are 8 tips to help you effectively manage
your boss:
1.Understand that you do not
have to change your
personality and neither
does your boss.

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2. Understand your boss’s
strengths and weaknesses
as well as your own.

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3. Know what your boss’s
communication and work
styles are, as well as your
own.

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4. Understand the pressures
and problems of your boss, as
it will help you understand his
or her motivation.

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5. Know what your boss’s
goals and expectations
are.

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6. Communicate your own
expectations to your boss
to find out if they are
realistic.

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7. Use all the information
you’ve now collected to
develop and manage a
healthy working
relationship with your boss.

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8. Remember that your boss is
imperfect and fallible, just
like you.

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