How to Be a Good Boss?

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There are good bosses and bad bosses. A good boss is a great combination of a good leader and a good human being. Therefore, good boss is a rare of the species and much sought after too. It's no wonder, everyone craves to work for a good boss.

We give below a list of the most important points for becoming not only a good but a great boss. Read on and implement:

Have a mindset that the organizations and managements succeed because of the contributions of its employees. Keep this at the back of your mind while dealing with your subordinates.
Therefore, give due respect to your employees they deserve.
Everybody in every position is a boss to some people as well as a subordinate to his boss. Yet, if you wish to be a good boss, think and act more like a boss and not as a subordinate. This is another important mindset you must develop.
Share your goals with your employees. Involve them in goal setting exercises. Refer: (Goal/Target Setting) http://goal-target-setting.blogspot.com/
Define your subordinates’ roles and communicate them.
Specify your other expectations from them and communicate.
Facilitate your subordinates to prioritize and thus, to do better time management. Refer: (Time Management) http://time-life-management.blogspot.com/
Get to know your employees, their strengths and potentials, knowledge level, skills and competencies, their enthusiasm level; also their weaknesses.
Create more and more leaders under you. Refer: (Leadership) http://lead-max.blogspot.com/
Help get extraordinary from ordinary.
Display infectious enthusiasm.
Promote more and more participation of employees as your management style.
Empower your staff to make certain important decisions from time to time.
When necessary, facilitate to solve problems without your direct intervention or guidance.
Delegate responsibility with commensurate authority and then do not hover over them supervising all the time. Refer: (Delegation) http://delegation-skill.blogspot.com/
Trust your direct reports.
Create a simple, clear, well communicated and well understood chain of command.
Learn to be an effective listener and be empathic. Refer: (Listening) http://listen-skills.blogspot.com/
Develop tolerance towards slippages and failures. Guide and counsel them appropriately specially under such events. If these are due to systems problems, facilitate to solve them to eliminate recurrence.
Deal with any problems quickly.
Lead from the front.
Acquire superior and authentic knowledge. Keep up-to-date in knowledge.
Show by doing.
Walk the talk.
Praise your employees for their good ideas and good work they do- in front of other people; in public.
Constructively criticize them but strictly in private. Also, simultaneously guide them on how to improve.
Demonstrate your appreciation by also doing things for them.
Do not play favorites.
Do not indulge in politics with subordinates.
Be in touch with your people.
Manage by wandering around.
Do not patronize; establish an adult to adult relationship with your direct reports.
Be hard task master and simultaneously, be lavishly considerate towards your people. Refer: (Leadership) http://lead-max.blogspot.com/
Cooperate and support fully.
Be friendly but not familiar with subordinates. Familiarity breeds contempt.
Be friendly but firm.
Do not create informers in your departments.
Do not allow any back-biting by your subordinates about their colleagues.
Celebrate achievements of your people.
Do not discriminate one from the other on any basis.

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