by Coach RachelleDisbennett-Lee, MS, PCC, CTC
If you have worked for anytime at all, you have had the opportunity to workwith a difficult boss. I have had the pleasure of working with many over mylifetime and have learned a few interesting ways to handle a difficult boss.
First, change your perspective. As long as you see your boss throughyour "jerk" filter, your boss will be a jerk. Let that go and see yourboss as just your boss. Period. Don't make judgments or put labels on the boss.Realize that your boss just is. Shifting your perspective will help you to beginto shift the energy around how you think and respond to your boss.
Learn to manage your boss. Yes, that is right. One of the mostimportant things one can do is manage the manager. Learn what your boss wantsand doesn't want, likes and doesn't like, and how to do the kind of job yourboss is looking for. I once worked for a boss that wanted a daily report oneverything I did. I thought it was ridiculous, but it made my boss happy andkept him off my back. Remember that you do work for the boss and the boss ispaying you, so as long as what the boss is asking for is legal, then it is yourjob no matter how stupid it may seem to you to do what the boss requests.
Understand that your boss is not going to change. I have worked withclients that think that if they just do their job better, faster, or moreelegantly, the boss will see how valuable they are and change their evil ways.Ha, in your dreams! The bo...
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