How to Deal with Difficult Bosses
Want to reduce stress and pain at work because your boss is difficult?
There will often be times when you’ll have to deal with different types of difficult people. These people may be within your organization, such as employees, your peers, or your boss.
You must deal with these difficult people in a way that brings about the most significant impact from you and the areas you manage.
In this podcast, I talk with Tony Penn of Results Driven Leadership who is training in Psychology and Executive Coach. He shares some amazing insights.
You have a different type of challenge when it is the boss, who is a difficult person. The wrong strategy for handling things with a difficult boss can negatively impact your career path.
Important: Don't discussyour feelings about these behaviors with anyone other than your boss.
Use the SBI approrach
Accept the following realities of addressing your boss’s behaviors with them:
- Your boss has the last word.
- Don’t go to battle with your boss over the little
- Don’t draw a line in the sand that, in the future, you will wish you had not drawn.
Communicate the sensitive subject of a boss’s behavior privately with the boss.
Let’s now look at some of the different destructive behaviors by a boss and how you might handle these behavior situations.
Vaughn is the co-founder of Results-Driven Leadership. He is a leadership development expert, podcaster, and author. His methods are brought from his real-world experience working on the front lines and living the role of being a high-impact leader and manager. His coaching and training programs offer no theory, just common-sense advice, and direction. He is a former executive with Carmax, the world's largest and most respected company in the auto industry, and is a Fortune 100 Best Places to Work.
Vaughn's mission is to improve the impact of executives and other managers by increasing their knowledge, skills, and abilities.
His motto is "No matter what business you're in; you're in the people business."
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