This is a continuation from part 1, see details here http://bit.ly/2m90Tvu
A quick recap from the previous article,
The STEP 1 on HOW DEAL WITH YOUR DIFFICULT BOSS is to BE PRODUCTIVE.
So let’s move to the next step,
STEP 2: PAY ATTENTION-
Whenever he has something on you, always pay attention to him. I’m not saying that you should listen to every word he says to bring you down, listen to his complains.
Pay attention to his intentions- is he a downright psycho or an impressionist or a perfectionist? Does he have a complex (inferiority or superiority)? Or is he being pressured by superiors and is also not organized? If you pay close attention, you’ll be able to decipher.
At first, my boss ‘Adolf Hitler’ would yell and yell and I wouldn’t be able to make out any sense of what he said other than words that gets me depressed. But one day, he yelled ‘Do you ever even listen to me at all!’ and as usual, I stood there and then he yelled again ‘Are you deaf?’
I don’t why; I just woke up to the realization that I had never listened to the old man (my boss). He was not yelling because I wasn’t doing my job, he was yelling because I wasn’t doing his job. He wanted me to overlap duties and responsibility, and so if anything that was not supposed to be my official business went wrong, I had to bear the consequences. When I knew this- that he is a perfectionist, I braced up for the task.
This is how to pay attention; decide not to listen to the personal impact, (how he’s making you feel incompetent) listen to what he’s saying about professional matters. For instance, ‘You are so dumb, you don’t even know that when writing a report, you have to start from ….’
You don’t listen to the name he called you; you listen to what he said about your report writing. And don’t tell me it is not easy not to listen when someone is bringing you down, I have been there and I can tell you that it is easy especially when you make up your mind that you don’t want to quit.
Pay attention to when he is angry, why he is angry, what gets him angry, who gets him angry. Paying attention helps you to identify the source of his problems with you helps you to learn how to deal with it.
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