it's been a long time since i wrote my last post on my blog , maybe because i am that kind of writers that don't write just to have something written or having an article on the internet and that's it, i prefer the observation, the analysis and then getting the conclusion in my post,
And this article specifically took the most effort to get written and come to life, I won't state that the following words are new, and I ensure that God didn't send me an angel with the secret of dealing with my manager, the article took so much effort not just to be written, but to live the days and always observe almost every single reaction of the employees around me at work, a lot of side talks with more professional colleagues or older ones that dealt with different types of managers,
in the below words i will thread a number of types of managers and how to deal with them, from my own point of view, and stating the example in familiar and local words not in academic form or a written comprehension,
Let's scroll down for the list !
1.Mr. Always Right !
(Introduction)
I preferred starting with this type of managers as it's one of the most common types in our fancy world. You will get employed in a humble or famous company or bank, finding this guy sitting in his fancy office or on his large desk staring at your files with totally no reaction on his face (maybe the meh! emoticon from facebook), and after a while, even if your files, decisions, mails are right, he will find a way to prove you wrong, you may reply on a mail with a number of managers of your company listed in the thread and he can easily ignore your reply and state the contrary by replying on the original mail, you can prepare a file to get the value X of a certain financial study, but he just doesn't like the color of the headers in the file, he may judge your appearances that you are not well dressed or your shirt is not in his favorite color, he won't accept the argument with you, and he won't give you a damn single chance to beat him, and he will always refer that you're breaking the hierarchy if you stood to argue him,
(conclusion)
RELAX BUDDY ! You can never argue with this type, the most professional solution with this type of managers is to perfectly believe what he says and actually implement all his solutions and commands, till he one day believes that he is the real fool one, he will feel annoyed and weird that you don't argue. He's totally waiting for you to start a conversation with him as it is his pleasure proving you wrong, don't give this chance, don't make him satisfied, just ignore him by making his orders into action till he feels creepy
(Reversal)
the previous type of managers does really exist but in two forms, the first one with strong personality that he will always command you and give you orders for you to implement, or the one with the weak personality that will only go into conversation with no action from his side, in this case, just go on with your own solutions and decisions, just agree with him in terms of words like OK and sure, and do whatever you are seeing true and right.
2.The lazy boss:
(Introduction)
You may face in your career time that kind of lazy boss, but I will also state other types like the weak personality boss and the "why don't you do it yourself" boss, because the 3 of them have the same criteria and conclusion at the end. The Lazy boss is the one that has the moisture and clean hands, he doesn't want to get his shirt dirty, only giving orders and acting as everything is under control. and weak personality boss is the one that can only shout to you, but leaves all the dirty work and mail replies to you, putting you in the war zone and in the face of the great canon, along with the "why don't you do it yourself" boss, the one that whenever a new idea pops up in the team, leans at your desk and tell you "Why don't you do it yourself John!!" as if he is testing your abilities and your know how in the field you are working, but actually he's just throwing all the work in your to-do-list and leaves to catch dinner with his wife or have an outing with his kids or girlfriend
(Conclusion)
This is your right place and time to shine big time !! Those kind of bosses are well known of their laziness and weak personalities, no matter how they fight to make themselves look better in the company, they will totally fail. So, here you are, the chance to work hard, to show your creativity, your replies to the mails, your decisions and so on that he, as your manager, should have taken it. Shine like a start between your colleagues and other employees, and make yourself ready to move to a better place or get promoted. This type of managers will indirectly help you having an A grade in your CV, as the higher management will always state that you are the one that was actually doing EVERYTHING !
(Notice)
Don't get in the mood of laziness as your manager, this will totally affect your future career and your goodwill in your field of work, always go hard to fight him indirectly with your performance and up to date decisions.
3.No-social life boss:
(Introduction)
There are always that kind, in a way or another, found in every organisation, that manager or boss that seems like not having any life outside the company or bank for example, starts working since the first steps he walks from the door, till the those late hours of night, with no evidence or clue that you're leaving on time, since he will always throw work to you,
(Conclusion)
Unfortunately you must perfectly act in a professional manner with this kind of managers, you must meet all his expectations, that you are a hard worker, that you can stay to late hours, that you actually don't have a life with no caring to anything except your work, This way, he will feel pleased, you may be his favorite employee in the team.
BUT ! You must be professional in dealing with him, not just staying as a puppet in his hands, since the moment you walk into the office, go and meet him, offer him a cup of coffee, and then start sucking out all the tasks, needs and to-do-lists that could be ever found in his head, all his dreams, wishes and thoughts that could ever take place in his mind, than go back to your desk, start building your own to-do-list, and then, priorities the tasks needed to be accomplished in your day, but hey, this is not the solution anyways. You are requested to STRETCH your time, be professional, since you are anyways staying to late hours of night, why stressing out yourself and putting yourself under pressure since the early morning ? Finish first the priorities on your list, and then, divide the remaining tasks on the hours left, the hours at which he feels ready to leave, maybe at 10pm+, if a task takes from 30 mins to 45 mins, why finishing it so early ? when you can stretch the time and finishing in a couple of hours, you're staying anyway, so always have that common sense of time management, and here you are, maybe not totally satisfied since you are staying to late hours, but at least you are not under pressure or tired
(Advise)
Don't show your trick to your boss, don't let him feel that you are slow in your performance, act like you're working with a serious face while you are checking facebook or something, this is the real deal brother. But remember, you must always stay awake and alerted, because if he suddenly picked up a task from your "not-important" list and asked for it immediately, you must be attentive to finish it on time, you must always meet his deadlines ! So take your rests, work slowly under cover, but with the eye of the tiger, it's a war zone with red code, dead or alive !
if you woke up someday, tired, feeling ill or dizzy, whenever you meet him in the early morning, start your day by stating that your grandmother is not feeling so well, to make him note down that your will leave early, or at least in a reasonable time, and go have fun brother, but don't be silly, have fun under cover as your grandmother is sick, remember ! Be professional in your disasters and problems, and always pick the right time to throw your excuse and jump behind the sand bags to get into cover from the explosion.
4-The Let's do it !! Boss:
(Introduction)
This boss has his good and bad sides on you. He is the one that will always be on your side, will always help you building files and models, will get all the creativity and suck the thoughts from your head, it's really good having this kind of managers as you will feel appreciated, not financially for sure, but at least someone is hearing your ideas and putting them into work
(Conclusion)
Don't be silly and fooled by your boss, his help or support. If you, for example, suggested to build a certain file, he will take a decision to start it immediately, so how will you run out of this situation ?
Boy, if you for example leave work at 5, never be creative after 2 pm ! in this case, you will stay up to late hours to make your creativity and ideas come true, why not just leaving those daydreams till the next day and stating them in the early morning so you can leave peacefully when the bell rings ! This how you deal in those kind of situations, know the exact time to spill out your ideas, when and where, the most two important criteria when you state what's up on your mind,
Another thing is, regarding the when and where, and also how to offer and sell your idea ? You cannot, for example, state an enormous idea that will make the company save money on the phone, or in the middle of another meeting that has no relation with your topic, nor when your manager is on his nerves from whatever thing, choose the right time to state your idea, and the right place too, for example, why not picking his cigarettes time ? and let him think by his own ? Know what, the better thing is to actually start building your model and file, and then, when you are almost 70% done, go and ask for his help, in that case, he will feel that you are creative and his best team member, and also appreciated, that you can't make those things get real without his help, BINGO !
5-I am the one:
(Introduction)
This is a sneaky one, the boss that always finds himself that nothing will go right without his intervention or comments,
(Conclusion)
Do your work perfectly in your own manner and way, but, never forget him, HOW ? When you are for example done with a certain exercise, go and ask for his commentary so you can send the exercise with his comments attached, he will feel appreciated and under the spot light. When you feel free, act as you don't know something regarding the exercise you are working on, and ask him to explain it, even if you perfectly know it ! Give him his prestige, the stars and celebrities feeling so you can let him get all his energy out, and then he will automatically shut his mouth up !
(Advise)
Don't always act as he is a fool, as sometimes, his commentaries and suggestions will be so helpful and to the point, that may really help you on your future cases !
6-I did it !
(Introduction)
We all don't want having a boss of this type, the one who, will always refer the effort to himself, as if he's the only one that worked among the team. You may work on a certain project that gets out a lot of benefits, and at the end, he will state that the project was his own, because you were just one of his team !
(Conclusion)
Be professional, whatever the project you worked on, keep its details in a dark place, as whoever went to ask your manager about your project, your manager by consequence will come and ask you about it, don't give him the full know how, don't let him take all the credit, keep the keys of power in your hand, Document everything, and state in your mails and communications the points that will indirectly deliver the message that you are the real owner of the project, Keep him aligned, with a general idea about the function, but the technicalities, it's your thing !
Those were just example of some types of managers that we may face in our career life, they seem they are almost bad managers, all of them, but I found it better to state the managers that we should deal with them "PROFESSIONALLY" if you, as a reader, want your career to go fast forward with no interruption,
Wait for the next article containing other types of managers, but after another phase of observation !!
Thank you,
Mohamed Shohayeb
And this article specifically took the most effort to get written and come to life, I won't state that the following words are new, and I ensure that God didn't send me an angel with the secret of dealing with my manager, the article took so much effort not just to be written, but to live the days and always observe almost every single reaction of the employees around me at work, a lot of side talks with more professional colleagues or older ones that dealt with different types of managers,
in the below words i will thread a number of types of managers and how to deal with them, from my own point of view, and stating the example in familiar and local words not in academic form or a written comprehension,
Let's scroll down for the list !
1.Mr. Always Right !
(Introduction)
I preferred starting with this type of managers as it's one of the most common types in our fancy world. You will get employed in a humble or famous company or bank, finding this guy sitting in his fancy office or on his large desk staring at your files with totally no reaction on his face (maybe the meh! emoticon from facebook), and after a while, even if your files, decisions, mails are right, he will find a way to prove you wrong, you may reply on a mail with a number of managers of your company listed in the thread and he can easily ignore your reply and state the contrary by replying on the original mail, you can prepare a file to get the value X of a certain financial study, but he just doesn't like the color of the headers in the file, he may judge your appearances that you are not well dressed or your shirt is not in his favorite color, he won't accept the argument with you, and he won't give you a damn single chance to beat him, and he will always refer that you're breaking the hierarchy if you stood to argue him,
(conclusion)
RELAX BUDDY ! You can never argue with this type, the most professional solution with this type of managers is to perfectly believe what he says and actually implement all his solutions and commands, till he one day believes that he is the real fool one, he will feel annoyed and weird that you don't argue. He's totally waiting for you to start a conversation with him as it is his pleasure proving you wrong, don't give this chance, don't make him satisfied, just ignore him by making his orders into action till he feels creepy
(Reversal)
the previous type of managers does really exist but in two forms, the first one with strong personality that he will always command you and give you orders for you to implement, or the one with the weak personality that will only go into conversation with no action from his side, in this case, just go on with your own solutions and decisions, just agree with him in terms of words like OK and sure, and do whatever you are seeing true and right.
2.The lazy boss:
(Introduction)
You may face in your career time that kind of lazy boss, but I will also state other types like the weak personality boss and the "why don't you do it yourself" boss, because the 3 of them have the same criteria and conclusion at the end. The Lazy boss is the one that has the moisture and clean hands, he doesn't want to get his shirt dirty, only giving orders and acting as everything is under control. and weak personality boss is the one that can only shout to you, but leaves all the dirty work and mail replies to you, putting you in the war zone and in the face of the great canon, along with the "why don't you do it yourself" boss, the one that whenever a new idea pops up in the team, leans at your desk and tell you "Why don't you do it yourself John!!" as if he is testing your abilities and your know how in the field you are working, but actually he's just throwing all the work in your to-do-list and leaves to catch dinner with his wife or have an outing with his kids or girlfriend
(Conclusion)
This is your right place and time to shine big time !! Those kind of bosses are well known of their laziness and weak personalities, no matter how they fight to make themselves look better in the company, they will totally fail. So, here you are, the chance to work hard, to show your creativity, your replies to the mails, your decisions and so on that he, as your manager, should have taken it. Shine like a start between your colleagues and other employees, and make yourself ready to move to a better place or get promoted. This type of managers will indirectly help you having an A grade in your CV, as the higher management will always state that you are the one that was actually doing EVERYTHING !
(Notice)
Don't get in the mood of laziness as your manager, this will totally affect your future career and your goodwill in your field of work, always go hard to fight him indirectly with your performance and up to date decisions.
3.No-social life boss:
(Introduction)
There are always that kind, in a way or another, found in every organisation, that manager or boss that seems like not having any life outside the company or bank for example, starts working since the first steps he walks from the door, till the those late hours of night, with no evidence or clue that you're leaving on time, since he will always throw work to you,
(Conclusion)
Unfortunately you must perfectly act in a professional manner with this kind of managers, you must meet all his expectations, that you are a hard worker, that you can stay to late hours, that you actually don't have a life with no caring to anything except your work, This way, he will feel pleased, you may be his favorite employee in the team.
BUT ! You must be professional in dealing with him, not just staying as a puppet in his hands, since the moment you walk into the office, go and meet him, offer him a cup of coffee, and then start sucking out all the tasks, needs and to-do-lists that could be ever found in his head, all his dreams, wishes and thoughts that could ever take place in his mind, than go back to your desk, start building your own to-do-list, and then, priorities the tasks needed to be accomplished in your day, but hey, this is not the solution anyways. You are requested to STRETCH your time, be professional, since you are anyways staying to late hours of night, why stressing out yourself and putting yourself under pressure since the early morning ? Finish first the priorities on your list, and then, divide the remaining tasks on the hours left, the hours at which he feels ready to leave, maybe at 10pm+, if a task takes from 30 mins to 45 mins, why finishing it so early ? when you can stretch the time and finishing in a couple of hours, you're staying anyway, so always have that common sense of time management, and here you are, maybe not totally satisfied since you are staying to late hours, but at least you are not under pressure or tired
(Advise)
Don't show your trick to your boss, don't let him feel that you are slow in your performance, act like you're working with a serious face while you are checking facebook or something, this is the real deal brother. But remember, you must always stay awake and alerted, because if he suddenly picked up a task from your "not-important" list and asked for it immediately, you must be attentive to finish it on time, you must always meet his deadlines ! So take your rests, work slowly under cover, but with the eye of the tiger, it's a war zone with red code, dead or alive !
if you woke up someday, tired, feeling ill or dizzy, whenever you meet him in the early morning, start your day by stating that your grandmother is not feeling so well, to make him note down that your will leave early, or at least in a reasonable time, and go have fun brother, but don't be silly, have fun under cover as your grandmother is sick, remember ! Be professional in your disasters and problems, and always pick the right time to throw your excuse and jump behind the sand bags to get into cover from the explosion.
4-The Let's do it !! Boss:
(Introduction)
This boss has his good and bad sides on you. He is the one that will always be on your side, will always help you building files and models, will get all the creativity and suck the thoughts from your head, it's really good having this kind of managers as you will feel appreciated, not financially for sure, but at least someone is hearing your ideas and putting them into work
(Conclusion)
Don't be silly and fooled by your boss, his help or support. If you, for example, suggested to build a certain file, he will take a decision to start it immediately, so how will you run out of this situation ?
Boy, if you for example leave work at 5, never be creative after 2 pm ! in this case, you will stay up to late hours to make your creativity and ideas come true, why not just leaving those daydreams till the next day and stating them in the early morning so you can leave peacefully when the bell rings ! This how you deal in those kind of situations, know the exact time to spill out your ideas, when and where, the most two important criteria when you state what's up on your mind,
Another thing is, regarding the when and where, and also how to offer and sell your idea ? You cannot, for example, state an enormous idea that will make the company save money on the phone, or in the middle of another meeting that has no relation with your topic, nor when your manager is on his nerves from whatever thing, choose the right time to state your idea, and the right place too, for example, why not picking his cigarettes time ? and let him think by his own ? Know what, the better thing is to actually start building your model and file, and then, when you are almost 70% done, go and ask for his help, in that case, he will feel that you are creative and his best team member, and also appreciated, that you can't make those things get real without his help, BINGO !
5-I am the one:
(Introduction)
This is a sneaky one, the boss that always finds himself that nothing will go right without his intervention or comments,
(Conclusion)
Do your work perfectly in your own manner and way, but, never forget him, HOW ? When you are for example done with a certain exercise, go and ask for his commentary so you can send the exercise with his comments attached, he will feel appreciated and under the spot light. When you feel free, act as you don't know something regarding the exercise you are working on, and ask him to explain it, even if you perfectly know it ! Give him his prestige, the stars and celebrities feeling so you can let him get all his energy out, and then he will automatically shut his mouth up !
(Advise)
Don't always act as he is a fool, as sometimes, his commentaries and suggestions will be so helpful and to the point, that may really help you on your future cases !
6-I did it !
(Introduction)
We all don't want having a boss of this type, the one who, will always refer the effort to himself, as if he's the only one that worked among the team. You may work on a certain project that gets out a lot of benefits, and at the end, he will state that the project was his own, because you were just one of his team !
(Conclusion)
Be professional, whatever the project you worked on, keep its details in a dark place, as whoever went to ask your manager about your project, your manager by consequence will come and ask you about it, don't give him the full know how, don't let him take all the credit, keep the keys of power in your hand, Document everything, and state in your mails and communications the points that will indirectly deliver the message that you are the real owner of the project, Keep him aligned, with a general idea about the function, but the technicalities, it's your thing !
Those were just example of some types of managers that we may face in our career life, they seem they are almost bad managers, all of them, but I found it better to state the managers that we should deal with them "PROFESSIONALLY" if you, as a reader, want your career to go fast forward with no interruption,
Wait for the next article containing other types of managers, but after another phase of observation !!
Thank you,
Mohamed Shohayeb
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