These 7 ways will help you to be a great boss
We all want to work for a great boss. A miserable management of a team could lead to numerous crisis situations, even the employee retention could become a major problem in organisations. What if we all knew how to be a great boss? Surely we can make the work place a better for everyone.
There are many things you could do to make a great boss. Being an example and mentoring your subordinates will help them to become a better leader in the future as well. There are some characteristics which are naturally carried by many of us but some may lack leadership qualities that are vital to manage and work with a team.
If you have the following characteristics, chances that you being called as a bad boss is extremely less.
1. Appreciate good work and skills of an employee
The most important attribute of a leader is that hes/she is always willing give and take whatever it is. When a subordinate does a good job, one must appreciate their work. It is not the money that matters all the time but recognition of their talents, skills and hard work is utmost important.
2. Do not micromanage
Trust on your people is essential. It could be frustrating for the subordinate to know that you are not happy with their work. It gets even worse when you are always behind them and tell them how do it instead of letting them perform a task their way. This does not mean that you should stop helping them out when they need you.
3. Create and develop a team
Team work can do wonders. A leader’s role is not only to develop great individuals. Those talented individuals should build up a great chemistry among the team members that would derive greater results.
4. Learn to listen to others opinion
Once idea might be great but different people look at things in several ways. This could either improve your idea, suggestion or thoughts and some time would be able to prevent of making blunders.
5. Do not try to be the boring person, have fun
Being a boss does not restrict you from having fun. Socialising and having fun with your team members and other employees does not harm you by any mean.
Above mentioned are few key things that you could do to make a great boss but surely it will help you become a better boss each day. Subordinates will be closer to you and share new things more often and their motivation levels will be higher. Great bosses are not found everywhere but being one could make thousands of more better bosses in the world.
