How to assert yourself as a boss?
8 April 2014
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Whether you are transitioning into management and establishing yourself as a new boss or returning after a long career break, there are several "classic" techniques you can use to develop your "boss aura".
Here are four essential skills to develop.
1. The ability to spread
"The business leader is considered a man to be brought down, or a cow to be milked. Few see him as the horse that pulls the cart," claimed Winston Churchill. This is true, and even more so than one might think, insofar as the boss is the guarantor of the motivation of his troops.
If you charge forward, the team will charge forward. If you mark time, the team will mark time. If you get discouraged or hesitate, so will the team. Everything you emit will be perceived and received, whether consciously or not. The "mirror effect" is major, in business as in life, and if you have the ability to spread enthusiasm, dynamism and efficiency, you are the happy locomotive of a happy train.
2. The ability to delegate
You are not superhuman. You cannot do and manage everything alone. So learn to decide on your teams, to constitute them, to decide on the actions to be implemented, to coordinate them, to define and set the objectives to be achieved, but, above all and more than anything, learn to delegate. It is in the field that your employees will train and it is there the greatest encouragement and the greatest mark of trust that you can show them.
3. The ability to congratulate
We don't think or hardly ever think of congratulating. Maybe we think about it once a year, at the time of the interviews. That's not enough. Far too little. It seems to be a basic mistake not to make. Learn, slowly but surely, to review your habits and to congratulate the person who has brilliantly achieved their objectives. For this, there are different ways, from the simplest, in the corridor or in front of the coffee machine, to the more serious (raise, bonus).
Being positive, thinking positively, acting positively, seeing the positive in everyone and in every situation can allow you and your collaborators to surpass yourselves, for the best.
4. The ability to sanction
Sanctioning, this term is disturbing, certainly. However, it is undeniably one of the active and acting realities of management. Being a fair boss means recognizing everyone's successes, failures, but also drifts and laxity, incompetence and refusal to comply with the rules in force. It is not a question of "severely punishing" or attacking individuals, but of questioning attitudes and behaviors that do not correspond to the material and professional needs of the company. However, be sure to stick to the circumstances by adapting to the fault committed. This can range from a warning by e-mail to dismissal. But definitely forget about personal attacks and especially public reprimands.
The ReKrute.com team
Here are four essential skills to develop.
1. The ability to spread
"The business leader is considered a man to be brought down, or a cow to be milked. Few see him as the horse that pulls the cart," claimed Winston Churchill. This is true, and even more so than one might think, insofar as the boss is the guarantor of the motivation of his troops.
If you charge forward, the team will charge forward. If you mark time, the team will mark time. If you get discouraged or hesitate, so will the team. Everything you emit will be perceived and received, whether consciously or not. The "mirror effect" is major, in business as in life, and if you have the ability to spread enthusiasm, dynamism and efficiency, you are the happy locomotive of a happy train.
2. The ability to delegate
You are not superhuman. You cannot do and manage everything alone. So learn to decide on your teams, to constitute them, to decide on the actions to be implemented, to coordinate them, to define and set the objectives to be achieved, but, above all and more than anything, learn to delegate. It is in the field that your employees will train and it is there the greatest encouragement and the greatest mark of trust that you can show them.
3. The ability to congratulate
We don't think or hardly ever think of congratulating. Maybe we think about it once a year, at the time of the interviews. That's not enough. Far too little. It seems to be a basic mistake not to make. Learn, slowly but surely, to review your habits and to congratulate the person who has brilliantly achieved their objectives. For this, there are different ways, from the simplest, in the corridor or in front of the coffee machine, to the more serious (raise, bonus).
Being positive, thinking positively, acting positively, seeing the positive in everyone and in every situation can allow you and your collaborators to surpass yourselves, for the best.
4. The ability to sanction
Sanctioning, this term is disturbing, certainly. However, it is undeniably one of the active and acting realities of management. Being a fair boss means recognizing everyone's successes, failures, but also drifts and laxity, incompetence and refusal to comply with the rules in force. It is not a question of "severely punishing" or attacking individuals, but of questioning attitudes and behaviors that do not correspond to the material and professional needs of the company. However, be sure to stick to the circumstances by adapting to the fault committed. This can range from a warning by e-mail to dismissal. But definitely forget about personal attacks and especially public reprimands.
The ReKrute.com team
