give your boss wine and not grapes

Give your Boss Wine

and Not Grapes

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Why Boss starts rejecting you?

During my service of more that 25 years, I had worked with more than 10 bosses.

Managing your boss is one of the most important part of your job, rather I should

say it is your one of the foremost duty to handle your boss. If boss is happy all will

be in the right direction. One of My bosses told me that the relation between

Boss and subordinate is like Husband and Wife. Loyalty, confidence, trust, inter-

dependency and care for each other are mostly wanted in this relation. Here we

will discuss some of the major areas of concerned.

1) Saying NO This is one of the most dangerous situation, when you

decided to say NO to your boss. No boss loves to hear NO from his/her

subordinates. Even though your are right and justifiable, but this is not

accepted by any boss. So before saying NO, think twice and try to avoid

to say NO. Manage the situation by using some other vocabulary. Before

saying NO, present your views on the issue and remind same kind of

situation where you/he has dropped the decision or have failed to succeed.

Let the decision comes from him/her. Present the data and analysis to

support him taking decision.

2) Procrastinating the tasks There are situations where you are not able to

complete the task on time or unable to even attempt due to laziness or

scarcity of time or over loaded with work. Your boss may be having other

subordinates; he may assign the same task to other person, in case you are

unable to complete it. If it is a routine, it is an indicator that you are going

to face a rough time ahead and have to face worst on employment front.

3) Talking Problem When you start depending on analysis and decisions

from your boss, it is time to depart. It is your duty to collect data, analyse

data and provide the options to your boss to take decision. Never go to

your boss with problem, rather go with Solution and seek his final approval

on the decision you want to take. Always talk solutions for a problem. Boss

doesnt work with base-line data and analysis.



4) Involvement in your Tasks If your boss is involved in helping you in your

day-to-day tasks, it means he/she is investing his/her time in your task. This

cant be done for long. By doing so, your boss will start losing on his

priorities and is not justifying his/her job. But it is your lagging that you are

unable to perform as per the management. Your boss cant save you for

longer time. Every body in organization is watching you and your boss. So

do your job yourself. If you need training on the job or training on skill

development, do that and dont waste your boss time in helping you in

your job. Rather you should extend your hand in helping your boss to give

some of your time to him. Save his time. Help him reminding meeting

times, scheduling tasks, followup with others on his/her behalf. If he

progress, you will also and visa versa.

5) Improper and inaccurate data When you present your data with your

boss, it should be in the desireable format and the data should be concise

and accurate. Re-work on the data always create stress and which induce

rejection and denial. You should present the decisional data instead of

bulky database. All bosses wants Wine and not grapes. So always convert

Grapes in Wine.

6) Over commitment There are people, to impress their Bosses, accept all

the assignments offered by the boss. Boss will be happy only if what to

promise is what you deliver. If you dont deliver, dont take responsibility.

Accept only what you can deliver. Your boss has N number of options to

handle and delegate the tasks. If you do that, it will go against you. Even

when your boss has task of your caliber, he will divert to someone else.

Non-delivery creates un-trust and ultimately create problem in your

assessment.

7) Personal Differences Normally Boss will not align with your likes and

dislikes. Therefore it is better for you to understand your Bosss likes and



dislikes. Align yourself with your bosss likes and dislikes. Match your

frequency with him/her to have a good relationship and understanding.

Personal differences will be harmful for you only. Sooner the better, align

yourself.

8) Asking for opinion Never ask for your bosss opinion, if not requirement.

It is always better not to ask for. He/she will be having very fever opinion

on the issue you want to have, because you knows the basic data and

situation, therefore you have more options. If you ask one, then your boss

will always see that his/her opinion are taken care. Therefore it should be

always avoided to ask for any opinion in the initial stage. Even though if you

want to know his /her opinions then prepares a list of opinions and present

those to your boss. 99% your boss will give decision out of the list.

9) Over Smart Dont be over smart. Even though you may be best in

technical skills or in analytical skills, but you cant over smart your boss.

Boss has all the powers and experience. Experience always has more

weightage. Every person wants others with respect him/her and Boss has

always a bigger ego. Take all decision in consultations with your boss.

Indirectly you are doing the tasks with approval from your boss. If you do

so, your boss will be always happy and will support you in all respect.

10) Build Trust of your Boss - By supplying half cooked reports, mistakes in the

text, grammatical mistake, illogical wits, etcs., you irritate your boss. And if

it is done repeatedly, for sure youre going to lose his/her trust. Once trust

is gone, everything else will go. The boss will either give all the tasks to

someone else or will fire you left and right every time you do mistake,

compelling you to quit.

In nut shell, you cant play with your boss, be supportive by

provide required data in the required format complete in all



respect. Respect his time and yours. Dont be over smart, and

dont try to teach your boss, understand his level and

expectations. Maintain his self-respect by obeying his

instructions and maintain your self-respe+ct by getting

appreciation and trust from your Boss. End of the day, Boss

should be happy with your performance and productivity.

Your performance should boost his image also.

About author

Rajinder Singh Mann, B.Sc., PGDCS, MBA, MPhil. Having Experience of 25 years

in S&OP, Education, Logistics, SCM. Has worked in diverse industries like

Publishing, Fasteners, Paints and Varnishes, Food Processing, Education and

Training, Steel wares and Table-wares. Presently associated with Ceramics

Industry heading Supply Chain Department.

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