How to Become a Boss People Admire

[Jasz]

The first step to becoming a boss people admire is to start by being yourself. If you're not a good leader, don't force it. If you're not a good listener, don't try to force it. As long as you know your strengths and weaknesses and are honest with yourself about them, you'll have nothing to worry about.

Once you've established who you are and what your strengths and weaknesses are, the next thing is to make sure that everyone else knows it too.

1. Be honest about your strengths and weaknesses with others who are in positions of authority over you. They need to know what they have to work with if things go wrong so they can help keep those things from happening.

2. Make sure that others know how important their job is by praising them when they do something right or complimenting them when they do something wrong (this should always be done in private).

3. Treat everyone fairly in terms of their job performance and give praise where praise is due without being mean-spirited about it (again, this should always be done in private).

 

[Holicent]

The most common way to describe a great boss is that he or she can get his or her employees to do the right thing. But there's more to it than that. Here are some of the qualities that make a boss great:

1. A good communicator. A good communicator is able to express himself or herself in a way that others can understand.

2. A good listener. A good listener is able to hear what others have to say and take it in without interrupting, judging, or being judgmental about them.

3. A leader who inspires confidence from his/her team members through actions rather than just words or promises of future actions they may not necessarily see happening at the moment they need to be taken within their own department or organization (for example: making sure everyone is paid on time).

4. Someone who knows how to delegate work effectively so that his/her employees feel like they're doing something important and valuable for the company as well as themselves personally; someone who listens carefully and responds appropriately when an employee shares concerns because he/she cares about them by giving them feedback on how they can improve their performance as an employee.