Help your boss unplug on vacation
You can’t force your boss to unplug or forget about work while on vacation, but you can make it easier for him (and you) with this plan:
Category: Managing the Boss
Don’t let merger or downsizing squeeze you out
Don’t allow the uncertainty of a merger and/or layoffs freeze your career. While the powers that be decide who stays and who goes, stake your claim to the position you want and they need.
Crystallize the job before you start
Launching into an assignment before you’re absolutely sure what the boss wants just wastes your effort … and the boss’s time.
Head off surprise assignments.
Head off surprise assignments.
Save the boss time: Screen applicants
To keep hiring from stealing too much time from your boss’s day, offer to interview promising candidates by phone before you set up an appointment.
Before tackling that objection…
Do you have a great idea but can’t overcome a "problem" your boss sees with it?
Schedule ‘face time’ with a distant boss
If most interaction with your manager transpires over e-mail or phone, make sure those rare face-to-face contacts pay off. Here are 5 ways to make it happen …
Got your boss’s back? You’d better
It may not appear in your job description, but making the boss look good—and even protecting him or her from the slings and arrows of everyday business—has to rank up there with your most important “unspoken” duties, right? (Otherwise, what happens to you when the boss goes down in flames?)
Work with the boss’s organizing style
Organizing your boss isn’t impossible; just don’t expect to arrange the work space as you would for yourself, says professional organizer Dorothy Breininger. Here are 4 tips to make it happen.
Unearth the jewels buried among files
Sorting through files can seem like an archeological dig. Every time someone new comes in, that person doesn’t understand the previous system and builds a new set of files—electronic and paper—on top.