Manage your Manager
Working hard is not enough, from the lowest to the highest positions, we have to cooperate and help each other, in order to get the best outcome.
Being a co-worker is not easy, you need to carry on everyday, under pressure, according to strict deadlines and small budgets...we need to be proactive, problem solver, creative, no exception can be accepted.
This is co-worker basic duties....what about being a Manager?
Managers are facing these days so many things, we cannot even imagine...
First of all, they need to manage all bureaucracy documentation, e.g. Invoices, statement of account, letter of credit, and more.. They also need to check every single thing we are doing, as they are “managing” our workplace.
They need most of all to motivate their staff, good manager trusts on good co-workers and never leave them alone in the darkness.
Carrying on all these stressful duties, surrounded by such an hard economic time can be very hard..for us but more than ever for them.
We don’t think about this during our workday, we love our work and our duties, but we care only about our small table and laptop, or our Van side... Especially during such stressful times like end of the year or before Summer holidays...
This bring our manager to explode sometime...it hurts us, because it is not easy to manage stressful situation as well as stressed Manager.. If we cannot handle this situation, it can bring us under very bad light...
How can we manage our Manager?
1) Don’t feed the fire: Your manager comes and shouts... If you reply to him, how can you pretend to be understood? He has just shown you his very weak side...stress management... Be silent and understand him...then go there and show him some solutions, work in cooperation with him...he wants and help not a judge!!
2) Respect his position: good co-worker recognizes the positions... He is higher than you and represent his own company, never forget that you are his co-worker not his associate...ask him, show him good solution...don’t give him advice unless he is asking you... Let him feeling comfortable with you.
3) Be honest: when you do a mistake just walk to him and apologize..don’t be a child, he is not your father and he can’t understand you totally, as he is not in charge of it!!! You are his help not his limit!!! Be a man/woman and be responsible, he can then trust on you.
4) Respect his rules: every serious office has a behaviour code, especially regarding shift time, dress, project management and more... RESPECT THEM!! small things matter!!
5) Smile not laughing: Ilike being very funny but it was not appreciated, especially during working shift.... You have your friends, your life out of your job...there you can laugh...now you are working, focus on this! Smile is always a good way to show your work satisfaction.
6) Be professional: I will write my next blog post about this... Being professional is a lifestyle, you need to think, act and look professional... Work like this were your company
7) How are you today? This is a good question, he can feel you bit more closer, you can build a good relationship, it shows him that you are interested about his person not only the monthly wage
8) Listen to him: Managers don’t have so much time.. If you are lucky to have a good heart manager, please listen to his words... He never comes to waste his precious time... If you hear and don’t listen, he will see it... Be careful
9) Be strong: Managers use to test their co-workers...you manager will teaze you sometime, he needs to see how you react...don’t lose your self-confidence, which means don’t lose yourself!!! Show him your strength... React but don’t move too much, just speak easy.
10) ACCEPT: You can be a rebel or a very passive person, nevermind, there will always be something youdon’t agree with...here you are working not discussing..he decides, he pays you and he will evaluate your work... Once again accept him, as it is...don’t complain, it won’t help...don’t shout, it will destroy yourself...if your idea is better, well, demonstrate him that you are right.. If he is clever (as I think) he will thank you.
Thanks for reading,
Pietro