Understanding your boss - problem in work restructuring

A new boss often to conduct a detail surveillance to his/her team because he/she needs to understand more the process inside department or division related and also to recognize the way his/her workteam member to work. If he/she doesn’t understand this situation, the workteam member that is get used to freedom or full trust of their superior before this new one will consider this thing as a bridling and not as a work recognition and adjustment. In other aspect, a new boss also brings a new working way and solution and he/she often to push his/her new workteam to follow this kind new way because the boss is very confident of its success to handle matter. But, in another hand, workteam member can be very uncomfortable of this process, or more worst, they may get faith that their own way is more effective their their new boss’ way to solve matter.

This kind of working situation will bring argue between the superior and his/her workteam. It will make unconditional work situation and bring bad thing to everyone. The workteam member may can not resist their boss because of superiority. But if workteam member feel uncomfortable continuously, it just only will bring trouble to their self.

According to that situation, let’s get know these suggestions carefully. It may help us to build trust and understanding between boss and the workteam member. And then we can avoid bad things that may happens and reach a good working relationship.

1. Watch carefully and understand the character and the way your boss working

At this point, seek positive sides of your boss and focus on his/her thinking and working way that is in parallel with your way of thinking. Discuss the way or model of communication which is comfortable to both of you in utterance of critic or credit. This understanding will help you to know the right time or the best way to communicate effectively with your boss and reach his/her trust.

2. Help your boss to understand working process at your workingplace

Show to your new boss about working process at your workingplace and discuss its pros and cons. Plan improvement or change based on discussion result so it will bring a better working process for everyone.

3. Open to a new thing

Just do the work as your new boss’ instruction. Discuss the pros and cons of this new way as input to your boss. It will give a new knowledge to you and show your respect to the new boss

4. Build and reach trust of your boss, starting from a simple matter

Ask a small task or working target that is not too significant to your new boss and ask his/her approvement so you can working on it with your way or your idea to reach the target approved. If at this task your boss know that you reach the target so, it will be a new step to your boss to trust you working independently. This succeed shall continue with asking a new task or target bigger then the last one to upraise your independent.

This process is a transition which its success is dependent to your willingness and openness both of workteam member and the boss in self adjusting and understand each other. Hope this small article help us at your workingplace.

5 Reasons Why You Don’t get Promoted

Perhaps, at this moment you have already been working long enough in a company; let’s say five or ten of working years. During such of working year, it’s certainly there is a big opportunity to get a promotion. But if you have not got it, there must be something wrong. But don’t get fast into a conclusion that it may be that’s your fault and then blame yourself. In this world, there are many companies that only have a short carrier level, so it will be so hard to get a promotion and reach higher level.

Somehow, there is a chance that we think a short carrier condition is not a major reason why we don’t get a promotion. So, it must be something wrong in us. If there is any clue that you got a feeling that your superior give a pressure on you and then you got frustrated, it might be a moment to start thinking that there’s something wrong in you.

Now, from several read of some sources, I may can present five reasons why you don’t get promoted:

1. Communication error

Matters in communication divided into two categories: the first is lack of communication. To handle this matter just give your best effort to get close to your superior/boss and communicate what have you done and its result to him/her. If you don’t make an intense communication with a member of your team-work, just get back and re-play again communication process and make it as simple as you can make it. The second category is incompatible communication style, for the example: there are some bosses or superiors that really fit on e-mail as a communication channel and give certain bullet to mark some important notes and make the note itself a bit of attractive, but in contrary, there are also some bosses or superior that don’t get use to send and receive email without any kind of that format, just straight as ordinary letter. To handle such of this, you have to ask directly to your boss or superior the communication way that he/she likes.

2. A wrong perception in a wrong time.

Someday, you’re in the middle of your work, and have been analyzing a report for 3 hours. Your brain just wants to explode, and come a decision in you to get rest of it. And here you go, typing Youtube in web address of your internet explorer and then watching a favorite artist video clip. Suddenly your boss just walks outside your room and sees what are you doing. That’s gives a bad perception on your boss. To get deal of such matter, just stop seeing your favorite clip for a while, and leave your computer ride away. Discuss this matter with your co-work or partner or even your boss. Make apologize, and explain the situation, make some more intense discussion with your boss so he/she will get know you better.

3. Making same mistake continuously

None of us is perfect, mistake happens. And we must make it once, at least. To deal with a mistake is to learn the matter and give the best effort to avoid it so we will not make same mistake in future. But the situation is complicated when you make a same mistake, again and again. Your boss will dislike this and this will bring a bad judgment to you. A mistake is actually important if we can put a red line of it and learn from it to handle it in future and to get solution from it.

4. What the heck are you thinking about?

To get a business’ decision we need logic, experience, and process. If you get rid away these aspects, just get ready to get further from your boss. Just remember these aspects carefully and use it often.

5. OPM-other people’s money.

When you do a business with your vendor, entertain client, or making a purchasing decision, do you consider the money that is involved as your money? Well, you’re wrong. You must understand your position and the rules in your company. You have to consider those money is not your money, you just represent the owner’s interest so you will not manage that money as you like without any consideration.