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What Great Bosses Are All About

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I’ve said before that I have an incredible boss. She has 2 MBAs and finished her undergrad in 3 years and has 20 years of management experience. I honestly can’t say enough about her skill and tact with us and her tenacity with upper management and her willingness to go to bat for our needs.

That said, we had a major re-organization yesterday that left her counterpart with 1/4 of his underlings and almost tripled my boss’ staff. I know she will do great, as usual, but I can’t help but think that she should sent this around for our new co-workers to read: Note From Boss To Employees. The link leads to Execupundit.com, but I discovered it from Seth Godin’s blog.

Every HR department in the world should give people access to these fine tips for getting along at work.

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  1. Can you Post the acctual note. I am having troubles reaching it. It causes the browser to crash.

    1. I am sometimes under enormous pressure from upper management; pressure that you seldom see. Anything that you can do to make my job easier will be greatly appreciated.
    2. Your interests are important, but please remember that I also have to juggle the concerns and feelings of a bunch of other people, including individuals outside of the department.
    3. I may not have been given a huge amount of training before being named to a supervisory position. As a result, I’ve had to learn through trial and error. That’s not always bad. Many of my responsibilities can only be learned through practice.
    4. If you are a former co-worker of mine, please recognize that supervising former peers is one of the toughest jobs any supervisor faces. The support that you give me is crucial.
    5. I will make mistakes. Please give me the same understanding that you’d like me to give you when you blunder.
    6. If I do something dumb or am on the verge of doing so, please tell me. Don’t hint. Tell me.
    7. I don’t like unpleasant surprises. Let me in on bad news as soon as possible. (Things that you believe are obvious may not be that clear to me. On the other hand, you’d be surprised at how quickly the latest gossip reaches my ears.)
    8. I expect you to take initiative. If you keep bouncing things to me, I’m going to wonder why I have you around.
    9. You should ask questions if you don’t know what to do. On the other hand, you should not have to be taught the same thing over and over again.
    10. Let’s respect each other’s time. We each have a job to do and the more we can reduce unnecessary interruptions, the happier we’ll each be.
    11. Don’t let all of my talk about meeting goals and producing results lead you into unethical behavior. You always have my permission to be ethical.
    12. If either of us has a problem with the other’s performance, let’s talk about it.

  3. Nice…kinda makes me want to help out MY boss more….kinda….no… prolly not.

    Thanks for posting it.

  4. You know my current boss fits alot of these and he is always going to bat for poeople in my shop( oh I am in the Air Force if I hadn’t told you before so my job consists of several shops) if anothershop has a problem with us he is the first to tell them we are doing the job we are supposed and they can like or deal with it cause thats how it is going to be.

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