Great tips to deal with a bad boss

It is likely you will encounter a difficult supervisor or bad boss at least once in your professional career. While many types of bad bosses exist, one type is particularly prevalent in the legal workplace. He’s intelligent, driven and competitive.

Ten Tips for Dealing With Bad Bosses

Protect yourself first
Get it in writing
Talk to your boss
Identify the problem
Take back your life
Manage your stress
Ask for outside help.
Organize a union
Plan your exit strategy
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8 Tips for Dealing with a Bad Boss

Don't Avoid Him
Befriend His Assistants
Work His Hours
Take Notes
Memorialize it in Writing
Confirm All Deadlines
Be Timely
Learn From the Mistakes of Others

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Recommended Approach to the Unwitting Bad Boss

Talk to this boss.

Ask the manager how you can help him reach his goals.

Seek a mentor from among other managers or more skilled peers, with the full knowledge of your current manager, to enlarge your opportunity for experience.

If you’ve taken these actions, and they haven’t worked, go to your boss’s manager and ask for assistance.

You may never hear what the boss’s boss or the HR staff did to help solve your bad manager’s behavior.

If nothing changes, despite your best efforts, and you think the problem is that they don’t believe you, draw together coworkers who also experience the behavior.

If you think the problem is that your boss can’t – or won’t – change, ask for a transfer to another department.

If a transfer or promotion is unavailable, begin your search for a new job.

Via humanresources