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Managing Your Boss

The document provides tips for managing one's boss in a concise way. It introduces Corporate Learning Institute which provides training to help organizations run smoothly. It then lists 8 tips for managing one's boss, such as understanding their strengths/weaknesses, communication style, goals and expectations. The tips advise developing a healthy relationship with your boss by using information about their pressures and imperfections just as you have your own. Readers are directed to CorpLearning.com for more two-minute reads on business skills.

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Managing Your Boss

The document provides tips for managing one's boss in a concise way. It introduces Corporate Learning Institute which provides training to help organizations run smoothly. It then lists 8 tips for managing one's boss, such as understanding their strengths/weaknesses, communication style, goals and expectations. The tips advise developing a healthy relationship with your boss by using information about their pressures and imperfections just as you have your own. Readers are directed to CorpLearning.com for more two-minute reads on business skills.

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Enjoy CLI’s Free Two Minute

Reads
…A way to get savvy business skills in a
concise, bite-sized way
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

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Introduction
Corporate Learning Institute provides training and
coaching for organizations to get them running
smoothly and effectively, because there is always
room for improvement.

With this collection of our favorite Two-Minute


Reads, you will get some free tips and tools that
will get your organization working just a bit better.
If you would like more of these quick, helpful
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Managing Your Boss
According to John J. Gabarro and John P.
Kotter, managing your boss means
“working with your superior to obtain the
best possible results for you, your boss, and
the company.”

Gabarro, John J., and John P. Kotter. "Managing Your Boss." Harvard Business Review 83, no. 1 (January 2005).
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss
Here are 8 tips to help you effectively manage
your boss:

[Link] that you do not


have to change your
personality and neither
does your boss.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

2. Understand your boss’s


strengths and weaknesses
as well as your own.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

3. Know what your boss’s


communication and work
styles are, as well as your
own.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

4. Understand the pressures


and problems of your boss, as
it will help you understand his
or her motivation.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

5. Know what your boss’s


goals and expectations
are.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

6. Communicate your own


expectations to your boss
to find out if they are
realistic.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

7. Use all the information


you’ve now collected to
develop and manage a
healthy working
relationship with your boss.
8 Tips for Managing Your Boss

8. Remember that your boss is


imperfect and fallible, just
like you.
Contact CLI for All Your Organizational
Development Needs!
For CLI’s Library of Two-Minute Reads go to
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corplearning@[Link]
1.800.203.6734

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