Managing your boss is challenging but important. First, understand your boss's behavior and manage your own emotions so you don't engage in counterproductive actions. Second, communicate your ideas, reactions, and concerns helpfully and positively to create a problem-solving atmosphere. Third, different types of bosses include weak links who avoid confrontation, toy soldiers who are aggressive but don't accept new ideas, and stinky or evil bosses who humiliate subordinates.

1. Managing Your Boss

2. Introduction Working for a company is not an easy task. We have to deal with many employees, customers and suppliers. And the most difficult and important person is our Boss.

3. Boss - Definition It is a person who exercises control over workers. It is a person responsible for hiring workers. It is a person who exercises control and makes decisions.

4. Important Successfully managing a difficult boss is a challenge but often feasible. It is important to understand three aspects of this relationship.

5. Managing your Boss First Aspect Y ou should try to understand the reasons for your boss’ difficult behavior.

6. Y ou have to manage your own negative emotions regarding his/her behavior so that you do not engage in self-defeating behavior. Managing your Boss Second Aspect

7. Managing your Boss Third Aspect You need to learn to communicate your ideas/reactions/concerns in a helpful positive way, creating an atmosphere for problem resolution.

8. Types of Bosses There are many kind of different bosses. We prepared a short list with some examples.

9. The Weakest Link He is very scared of anyone more senior to him. He avoids confrontation and he is never up to protect his subordinates.

10. The Toy Soldier Everybody is scared of him. So, nobody in the company would face him. He is very aggressive and tough and never listen to new ideas from his subordinates.

11. The Stinker He is not used to have shower in the morning, so he stinks and have bad breath.

12. The Evil Boss It is the boss that likes to humiliate his subordinates, by pointing out their mistakes at the top of his voice.

13. Mr. Right Man He can not handle the job so he blames his subordinates for all the mistakes. And fire many people to hide his mistakes.

14. Mr. Wrong It is the boss that always insisted that he is right. But he couldn't spell and his grammar was terrible. And he always says that the dictionary is wrong.

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