7 Ways To Deal With A Difficult Boss At Work

Most people complain a lot about their bosses, about what they are doing wrong and what they should be doing right, basically we all wish we had bosses we can stand up to like we do to our friends and family. At work, you obliged to keep things professional and to not violate terms in your contract, they may not say it but in between the lines of respect your colleagues and your authorities there’s a ‘tolerate whatever it is ,is thrown at you’ thin line.

Some people would rather lose their jobs than deal with difficult bosses because it ends up being like an emotional abuse. The reality is, chances of having nice bosses are slim to none, it is best to just master the ways to deal with them.

Here are 7 Tips guaranteed to help you deal with your difficult boss.

1.Before anything else, make sure that you are dealing with a bad boss before you try to fix and deal with everything. Your first step should be observation to avoid jumping to conclusions. Take notice of what he does poorly and try to think of the most forgiving reason and why it occurred.

2.Identity your boss’s motivation, understanding why your boss does what he does or why he cares about certain things can give you an insight into his management style.

3.Don’t let it affect your work, no matter how horrible and a nightmare your boss is avoid letting it affect your work, you want to stay in good terms with your leaders, it might be hard to bare but in the future you’ll realise just how worth it was.

4.Be one step ahead, get things done in time or long before they get to you. That is just another way of trying to avoid being yelled at for being incompetent and lazy.

5.Document everything, be sure to write down all your interactions with your boss it can be requests,compliments or criticism so you can refer to them when they contradict themselves in the future.

6.Don’t do the mistake of acting out of emotions at an instant, wait it out, give it some thought and have a better timing when you want to manage conflict with your boss.

7.Identify trigger, if your boss has anger management problems, identity what triggers his meltdown and try to avoid doing that.