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Things That Might Be Jeopardizing Your Relationship with Your Boss
Are you worried that you may be jeopardizing your relationship with your boss? Here are some of the most common reasons why your relationship with your boss may not be as good as you’d like. Next week we’ll go over some tips for overcoming these barriers.
Why You Must Have a Positive Relationship with Your Boss
When you have a positive relationship with your boss, many wonderful and career-enhancing things are possible. Opportunities, praise, promotions, pay increases are just a few. Your life as an employee is easier, you have more impact, and you’re in a stronger position to drive your career forward. When I think of the benefits of having a positive relationship with your boss, I come up with an acronym that spells the word “help.”
Why Is Responsiveness Important?
You may feel that you should not respond to colleagues until you have the answer to their questions or requests. Or you might assume that others know you are working on their problem and you don’t feel a need to keep them updated. You may rationalize that you are too busy to get back to anyone except your boss. But here’s why responsiveness is important.
The Five Reasons You Should Avoid Coaching
As my tenure as a coach grows, and as I meet an increasing number of client prospects, I have noticed recurring themes among individuals who don’t think about working with a coach, or who don’t want a coach.
Drive Your Career: 9 High Impact Ways to Take Responsibility for Your Own Success
Take the wheel and steer toward success!
You’re ambitious, talented, and ready to take your career to the next level. It’s time to step into the driver’s seat and set a path for success, with this illuminating guide from leadership coach Ed Evarts.
Raise Your Visibility & Value is Now in Paperback!
Raise Your Visibility & Value is already available in hardcover, Kindle and audio. Now it’s available in paperback! Be sure to grab a copy here.
“In this era of mergers and acquisitions, technological advances, globalization, and virtual employment, Raise Your Visibility & Value: Uncover the Lost Art of Connecting on the Job is a must read for anyone looking to remain relevant in their career.” ~ Bob Kelleher, author of the best sellers Louder Than Words – 10 Practical Employee Engagement Steps that Drive Results and I-Engage: Your Personal Engagement Roadmap
Be Responsive: Visibility Accelerator #3
The ability of others to connect to you frequently and instantly highlights an interesting human behavior. The speed in which a colleague reaches you creates an identical expectation as to how long it will take you to respond. Similar to a fast-paced ping pong game, your colleagues expect you to be responsive just as quickly as they got the ball to your side of the table.
“Responsiveness is the degree to which you get back to colleagues and foster progress.”
Overcoming Hurdles to Accessibility
Below are some typical hurdles to accessibility and suggestions for improving them in your organization and industry.
A Warning on Being Accessible
Being Accessible does not mean you are available 24/7/52. We all have limits on the degree to which we can be reached by co-workers, and you should feel comfortable enforcing and expecting others to honor these limits.
Can you be too successful at modeling accessible behavior? Is this an example of “too much of a good thing”? We all know that sunlight is a good thing, yet too much can cause skin cancer. We know that the human body needs sugar to survive, and yet too much may cause diabetes. If you’re wildly successful at being accessible, you may find your calendar under attack.
Your goal is to make sure you are being accessible to serve the needs of others, not to become their servant.