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#21Lessonsin21years: The Ten Commandments of Managing Your Boss (3)- Part 1
Knowing how to handle your superiors may well be one of the greatest skills you need to have at work. Your boss holds the power of life and death (in a manner of speaking) over your career.
Knowing how to handle your superiors may well be one of the greatest skills you need to have at work. Your boss holds the power of life and death (in a manner of speaking) over your career.
He/she determines who is promoted or fired. Fortunately, we can control how our bosses perceive us to a very large extent. I usually tell colleagues at work that it is the duty of the subordinate to manage up his/her superior. It is not only subordinates that need to be managed.
Managing people is actually a three-way thing: managing upwards (your superiors), managing downwards (your subordinates) and managing sideways (your colleagues). The most critical is managing upwards. More people fail at managing upwards than downwards.
#21Lessonsin21years: ‘People Might Not Like You But Never Give Them The Opportunity To Say You Don’t Know Your Job’ (2)
This morning, I had a conversation with a colleague at work. He shared 3 things his former boss told him. He said they have been the foundation of his career.
This morning, I had a conversation with a colleague at work. He shared 3 things his former boss told him. He said they have been the foundation of his career.
First: People might not like you but never give them the opportunity to say you don’t know your job.
Second: You are too young for office politics: don’t get involved.
Third: No one should ever say, ‘You said or didn’t say’.
Second: You are too young for office politics: don’t get involved.
Third: No one should ever say, ‘You said or didn’t say’.
I’ll focus on the first piece of advise.
I worked with a superior some years back whom I thought was just looking for the easiest of excuses to get rid of me. It was a very tough situation then that I didn’t look forward to going to work each day.
I worked with a superior some years back whom I thought was just looking for the easiest of excuses to get rid of me. It was a very tough situation then that I didn’t look forward to going to work each day.
#21Lessonsin21years: Find A Way To Connect To A Source Greater Than You (1)
We had a deadline. An impossible one. Turn around the branch in 30 days or get fired. The countdown had started. I was a Team Lead and I saw the pains in the eyes of my Branch Manager.
We had a deadline. An impossible one. Turn around the branch in 30 days or get fired. The countdown had started. I was a Team Lead and I saw the pains in the eyes of my Branch Manager.
We had to do all we could to meet the deadline. We ran all over town, trying to pull the chest out of fire. Nothing seemed to work.
I came to church that Sunday feeling very drained. I was tired and had given up. Will my career end this way? We had a Guest Minister that Sunday - a popular architect- who also has a church in Ibadan. After the service, he went into our Pastor’s office and I requested to see him
