Manage your Manager

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

Positive Magnet

Positive Magnet

“Of all the judgments we pass in life, none is more important than the judgment we pass on ourselves.” 
― Nathaniel Branden

Today was not the best day of my working life, everything seemed to go wrong...

When you work in sales, it is very easy to destroy your day, following to the rules I try to apply to my everyday life:

Though = Words

Words= Actions

Actions= Feelings

People feels immediately what you are feeling, let's see this example:

Today I called a customer, I had a very positive feeling when I heard him the first time, my brain was expecting something good... I showed him all my cards but he didn't want to play at all...

First rule in sales is to listen to what customer says and give him what he really wants...

It may happen that customer is not interested in what you are offering, even if you ask all the questions you can ...NO WAY.

This is normal, the more you try the more you get...in this case I got bit down...this is not good...

Next call was even worse...this time customer chose our competitor because they had better deal....

I really got down and I felt lost....which is not good at all...

3 rules were working: Bad Thought = bad words to myself --> Bad Words=Bad actions--> Bad Actions= Bad Feelings --> BAD FEELINGS=BAD JUDGMENT.

JUDGMENT=IDEA OF OUR SELF.

It means that in few minutes the idea I had of myself completely changed, from VERY GOOD to VERY BAD.

We need to be able to manage this feeling, BEING A POSITIVE MAGNET means to attract what good feelings you can generate from your heart.

How can we be a positive magnet?

1) Today is a great day:  2 phone calls cannot make your day...remember you are the manager of your day!! Think about the more you try the more you get, one customer lost =  10 potential customers found, JUST KEEP ON!!

2) Your mistake = Your lesson: Try to think about how much you learnt from your mistakes...you cannot be a good sales man, a good man, a good father or whatelse without making mistakes, MISTAKES ARE THE BEST LESSONS FOR OUR LIFE!! Being thankful for this magic thing!!

3)Being positive as a choice:  You chose to be happy, because it is free, it makes you feel better...if you let bad thoughts or experiences to lead yourself, you will never know yourself till the end.

You are your day, your life, your faith..you decide where to take your sould and your spirit everyday....Choose a great place then!!!HAPPY PLACE!!

4)Doubt of yourself, you will be a better person:  There is nothing wrong to doubt of ourself, our thoughts... you can ask yourself, you can discover the reason why you doubt of yourself...MOST IMPORTANT YOU CAN START CHANGING!!! Our life is an ongoing movement, if you stand and wait how can you receive soemthing? You produce what you get, nobody can be a complete person without experienceing the doubt option...You will go through it and you will be stronger!!

5)Never give up!!!  We are warrior of the light, we need to keep our light switched on even when we are down or our energy is low...DON'T LET OTHERS TAKE YOUR ENERGIES!!! Be the change you want to see!!!