If you only do one thing this week … tell your bosses what you think of them
February 15, 2010 by admin
Filed under Career News and Advice
Bottling up frustration at your boss is not advisable. Photograph: Teri Pengilley/Teri Pengilley
Whether it’s a failure to communicate useful information or a tendency for slip-ups that make you and your colleagues look bad, the chances are you could tell your boss a thing or two about the way he or she works. Recently it was even claimed that doing so would make you less stressed.
The trouble is finding the right way to approach the matter. Bottle things up and you may end up exploding and saying things you regret, but speak out on the spur of the moment and you may come across as antagonistic. So what is the most constructive way to go about telling your boss what you think of him or her?
In an ideal working world, you would be able to be open and honest with your employers, but, as Chris Smith, principal consultant at the Bath Consultancy Group, acknowledges: “Whether you can do that depends on your situation, not everyone has that sort of relationship with their boss.”
Which is why a more formal set-up can be useful. Smith is an advocate of 360-degree feedback, where employees rate …
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