The working world has its fair share of bosses and you must have come across a number of them, shared both productive as well as not so productive relationships. At times it happens that you pause to ponder and reflect on the kind of relationships you shared with them. When you are just starting your career you tend to put too much of onus on your bosses to make the relationships work. You play the role of a recipient rather than go ahead and co own the relationship, but once you do that you actually take charge of your career.
Decisive Working Relationships
It takes serious study to be able to discern the good and the bad and then pick up positive lessons from the person or the situation and apply the same for your career advancement. Oftentimes a major chunk of our attention is focused on the various ways and means we can employ to be able to lead others. While doing so we need to think of our relationship with our immediate bosses as well as key people in the organization.
Friends for Life
Come to think of it your relationship with your boss is surely one of the most impactful and decisive working relationships that you will ever have. This major relationship determines to a very large extent the kind of information, mentoring and other resources, that you gain access to at the workplace, in short the kind of exposure that would be made available to you.Now there are bosses and then there are bosses, some of them come across as amazing people and end up being mentors and friends for life.
Mutual Admiration
Others may not match up to this kind of a warm and productive relationship. No matter who the boss happens to be it would be in the best of your interest to make your professional relationship work, a strong mutually beneficial relationship is based on values and is bound to prove valuable on various fronts whereas a strained relationship often becomes difficult to navigate.
Avoidable Traits
You would come across people displaying the best and the worst traits. Some leaders tend to micromanage compulsively, are poor communicators and are not so competent such persons at the helm of affairs are quite competent in driving you nuts; you end up hating your job big time. The take away lesson from these bosses is,you have to avoid their style of functioning at all given costs.
Conclusion
On the other hand just visualize a boss who possess requisite knowledge and is properly able to motivate the staff and thereby able to lead a satisfied as well as productive team. Good bosses make it a point to stick around times when everybody is facing a crunch and the team whole heartedly supports them as well. They let others lead and make it a point to keep people in the loop, go ahead and pick up the positives and emerge successful in your transition as a leader.
