How to Build Good Relationship with Your Boss
(Ghulam Muhammad, Karachi)
• Give respect to your boss
Remember! Respect your boss. Respecting boss is ultimately respecting yourself,
as lacking will reflect on stakeholders also
• Accept his/her authority
Accept the authority and view as optimistic, don’t challenge it. Consider
positive qualities and be willing to comment on them. Thank him or her for a
good idea or suggestion, even if given to someone else.
• Honest Behavior
If problem is addressed not properly, anxiety and irritation will be resulted,
approach as he wants “via email or knock at the door.” Be clear, if you don’t
have information yet because hiding information is a career sinker, so tell all
and provide appropriate solution.
• Ask for feedback whether Positive or negative
Nobody can figure out the mind, so the boss too, you should brief him what you
have accomplished and enable him to offer recognition for the performance.
• Value your boss time
Try to schedule, at least, a weekly meeting and make agenda. This allows him to
accomplish work without regular interruption.
• Maintain strict confidentiality
Business world required confidentiality. Don’t disclose the talk to any one else
which is confidential and between you and your boss, this will help is prosper
the relation.
• Learn your boss personality
Learn to understand the moods, reactions, likes and dislikes. Don’t put forward
six months improvement plan when he is busy with the monthly work.
• Avoid making excuses
Boss neither care excuses nor he or she want to hear them. Get done tasks before
deadlines. Boss doesn’t push for the job that is paid to you as he is dealing
with additional work.
• Do more than expected
Do work more than expected for getting apart. For this accomplished tasks
effectively and efficiently and provide new solution, it shows inventiveness and
interest.
• Be Solution focused
Always provide solutions to him, don’t go with the problem statement. Providing
solutions will impress him.