Office politics 8 tips that will help you supporting your boss

by chess master on 24/01/10 at 9:08 pm

As the office sur­vivor, your career prospects often rely on how effec­tively you inter­act with and sup­port your boss or oth­ers far­ther up the orga­ni­za­tional lad­der. In front of every com­pe­tent per­son there will even­tu­ally be a vacant chair; and your boss will have a major voice in deter­mine who gets to sit in it. Often, your suc­cess will depend on your boss suc­cess, so he or she will need your con­tin­u­ing sup­port. Keep these sug­ges­tions in mind if you want to sup­port your boss…

1. Get to know your boss

Get­ting to know your boss is for some a big obsta­cle. We keep our life pri­vate as we can, expos­ing so lit­tle to the out­side. Know­ing your boss involves know­ing his work­ing habits, his moti­va­tions, and his pri­vate per­sonal state. You will need a lot of your office pol­i­tics abil­ity to gain as much infor­ma­tion. We brought sev­eral inquires you might use:

• Find out all you can about your boss-likes and dis­likes, quirks, expec­ta­tions, inter­ests and prejudices.
• By observ­ing and by ask­ing oth­ers get to know how your boss likes things done.
• Learn your boss’s style of writ­ing, for exam­ple. Is a suc­cinct pro­posal on one sheet of paper pre­ferred or a details argument?
• Finds out what’s really impor­tant to him or her and make sure that’s what you deliver.
• Study him to under­stand what catch is their minds, stim­u­late their souls and turn their stomach.
• His age. This is an impor­tant fac­tor. Maybe your boss is going to retire­ment and his replac­ing is already known?
• Get and under­stand his per­sonal state life? Is he mar­ried? Have kids? What age?
• Get to know his aca­d­e­mic past and resume.
• Try to ana­lyze his posi­tion in the orga­ni­za­tion, put your­self in his place, and see where would you like to pro­mote your self if you where him. Try to approve you ana­lyz­ing with smart and pol­i­tics pri­vate talking’s with him to assure your assumptions.

 

2. Keep your boss informed

 

Inform­ing your boss can be some­time dif­fi­cult. As an office sur­vivor, at one point we will start hold­ing back valu­able infor­ma­tion and not telling all of it to our boss. Its basic human behav­ior because we know think these lit­tle secret can keep out job safer in the future once we will decide to use it. But we thought of bring­ing sev­eral meth­ods an office pol­i­tics mas­ter might use, when he is will­ing to spread the data.

 

• Keep your boss up to date on all mat­ters you are respon­si­ble for, as well as other items that you find are needed.
• Always antic­i­pate your boss’s infor­ma­tion needs and questions.
• Press clip­pings, media releases and inter­nal online infor­ma­tion can pro­vide valu­able data.
• Be sure to include a ‘with com­pli­ments’ slip with your signed, per­sonal, but business-like message.
• Never let your boss hear good or bad news from oth­ers when your job to pro­vide it.

3. Find out when and where your boss is most approachable

Pri­vate Meet­ings with the boss is impor­tant to the office sur­vivor and its part of the “office-politics” game. you need these meet­ings once in a while for two rea­sons .keep­ing good rela­tions with your boss, get­ting him like you and gain con­fi­dence with you and the sec­ond is to try and  get his voice sup­port­ing you in a crit­i­cal deci­sion making.

 

• If your boss is an early starter, morn­ing may be the best time to meet for discussions.
• If your boss takes some time to warm up, the end of the day might be a bet­ter time.
• Learn to read changes of mood. The boss’s per­sonal assis­tant is often a valu­able ally. Remem­ber that tim­ing van be vital.
• Try to see where will be to best place to tackle him: office, lunch, after work or home.

 

4. Deliver the goods

 

When your boss gives you a task, do you see it through to completion-or do you turn in a half fin­ished job with all the tricky bits left for your boss to tidy up? If you’re asked to do some­thing do you do it promptly and thoroughly?

This ques­tion is impor­tant in your office pol­i­tics design. You need to ask your­self what is your strat­egy and lim­i­ta­tions. While you are in the process decid­ing whether to take a task or in the task you might ask yourself:

 

• Are you deliv­er­ing what your boss antic­i­pates from you?
• Are you deliv­er­ing what you’re inside con­science telling you?
• Are you lazy to deliver 100% job?
• Do you have enough time to deliver?

• Are you try­ing to look busy?
• Are you agree­ing to take on tasks that oth­ers find to chal­leng­ing or to demand­ing of their time?
• Is attract­ing the atten­tion and respect of your boss is a priority?

 

 

We need to clar­ify an impor­tant sub­ject: tak­ing a task does not require you to do it man­u­ally. you might use out­sourc­ing or del­e­gates it to other while man­ag­ing the progress. This you might finds you have more time and you are less busy. Then it a game of what you want to present to oth­ers. Suc­cess comes when you start man­ag­ing oth­ers and work less. Then you become an office man­ager and not just a survivor.

Remem­ber to not offer promises; just deliver what you intend. Don’t make excuses when some­thing goes wrong. Deliver next time. Be though self-critic and always deliver the goods promptly and well.

5. Focus on solution-not problems

Henry Ford is sup­posed to have said;

don’t giver me a prob­lem. Give me a solution

You should also adopt this approach. Make it a per­sonal rule to pro­vide solu­tions, or at least options for consideration-never prob­lems, for the boss to solve. Bosses don’t need mes­sen­gers con­vey­ing bad news. They want to hear what you done about any prob­lems. Gain a rep­u­ta­tion for being a solver, not a crier.

As part of the office pol­i­tics game, try to throw sev­eral ideas and solu­tion while talk­ing to your friends at the office. Don’t givers them full pic­ture but do it smart. Try to see what pros and cons your ideas have thus you can pre­pare your­self and change your ideas and solu­tion before deliv­er­ing it to your boss.

Another approach will be sniff­ing around with your boss and see what he think. If you don’t have enough resources and time, next time just repeat his ideas .this way you are show­ing sup­port and bring­ing his ideas as they were yours. This might be a good tac­tic to use with col­lab­o­ra­tion when you and your boss need to pass a deci­sion, and you boss don’t what other to think he is pulling to a spe­cific direc­tion, thus let­ting you pull it. How­ever this is tricky because you can take the heat and get burned. Trust is an impor­tant issue and you need to trust your boss and see if he will come to res­cue live on the met­ing when you strat­egy fails.

6. Demon­strate your loyalty

Be as loyal to your supe­ri­ors as you would wish them to be with you. Remem­ber how­ever to show equal loy­alty to and open­ness about your col­leges as well, so that you don’t earn a rep­u­ta­tion as the boss pet or the office crawler as appose to the office survivor.

• Don’t crit­i­cize your boss in front of oth­ers. if he made a mis­take con­front hum in pri­vate doors.
• When you hon­estly can, speak well of your boss to other people.
• Offer pro­tec­tion when nec­es­sary as long you feel it will help you get­ting more scores.
• Serve as buffer and absorb some of the shocks when you can pru­dently do so. From time to time let your boss you did it.
• Always, help your boss “to be right” with­out your­self being subservient.
• If you are for­tu­nate enough to have one who deservers it, don’t be too proud to express admi­ra­tion for you boss.

7. Gain your boss confidence

If you are deter­mined to sup­port your boss, you should show that you can be relied on; not only to do your own job but also to help your boss to do his. So, when­ever the oppor­tu­nity arises, you should try you con­vey some of these mes­sages and key office pol­i­tics sentences.

• I’m happy to have you talk to me about your con­cerns and problems
• I’m keen to be allowed to take some of the load off your shoulders
• I have cer­tain strength you can use.
• I am always available

8. Match strength and weaknesses

Have a good grasp of your own strength and weak­nesses as well as your boss. You will then know where you can com­ple­ment each other, where you con­flict and where you need help.

Con­clu­sion:

Some of the finest col­lab­o­ra­tion whether in busi­ness or arts come about because the indi­vid­u­als involved com­ple­ment each other; the writer help­ing the speaker, the details thinker sup­port­ing the big pic­ture per­son, the late night per­son spelling the early riser. if you are strong where your boss is weak, and vice versa the result­ing team can be far more effec­tive then  be alone. A good work­ing rela­tion­ship with your supe­rior is the foun­da­tion of being suc­cess­ful manager.

 

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