The document provides information on managing different types of bosses professionally. It discusses 5 kinds of bosses: incompetent, bully, bossy, perfectionist, and influencer. For each type, it describes their characteristics and how to deal with them effectively. The benefits of managing your boss well are outlined as improving your work environment, strengthening the relationship with your boss, and enhancing your professional skills. Overall tips are given such as understanding your boss's perspective, developing trust, and respecting their time.

1. Managing
Bosses
Professionally
Presented by Sourena Nouri, Aga Arafat and Homero Oliveira
Teacher: Manon Wascher

2. 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”

3. 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

8. 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

9. Training Activity

10. Activity -7 Min
Each 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

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Incompetent
Bully
Bossy
Perfectionist
Influencer

12. Kinds of Bosses

13. 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

14. 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

15. 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

16. 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

17. Incompetent Bully Bossy Perfectionist Influencer
•The supportive motivator
•Treats everyone with fairness regardless of politics
•Communicates
•Encourages others to follow suit
•Leads by example

18. How to deal with each kind of
boss

19. 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

20. 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

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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

24. Do / Don’t with your Boss
Do
1. Take time to understand your manager’s perspective.
2. Work on developing trust
3. Confirm expectations
4. Learn about your manager’s work style
5. Understand what is important.
6. Respect your manager’s time.
7. Provide positive feedback

25. Do / Don’t with your Boss
Don’t
1. 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.

26. 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.