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3 Tips for Being The Best Boss You Can Be!

Guest post by: Ben Nash

Article Overview: What makes a great boss? It is something to do with personal likability, gaining respect from people, and getting results! Does it have anything to do with their leadership style or methods of disciplining employees? Well, it has a little something to do with all of them. Here are three tips for being the best boss you can be.

3 Tips for Being The Best Boss You Can Be!

What makes a great boss? It is something to do with personal likability, gaining respect from people, and getting results! Does it have anything to do with their leadership style or methods of disciplining employees? Well, it has a little something to do with all of them. Here are three tips for being the best boss you can be:

1. Take responsibility, but share praise. take the responsibility for the problem, and not pass on the blame to subordinates (unless really warranted – and in that case it may involve disciplinary action). When things go well however, share the praise and celebrate success.
2. Praise publicly, reprimand in private. A characteristic of a good boss is that s/he does not humiliate his employees and subordinates in public. If someone does a bad job, talk about it in private, and let the person justify himself, or at least apologize. Reprimand him/her in private, and not in view of his colleagues, and keep these discussions behind closed doors. But when you praise an employee for exceptional work, do it in public, so that he might serve as an inspiration to his co-workers.
3. Establish personal relationships, but maintain professional distance. Office politics and gossip are usually problems in the workplace, and being the boss, you should not involve yourself. Establish personal rapport with your employees and get to know them personally but maintain some level of distance. You are the boss, after all, and you should be able to earn their respect by showing them that you do not grumble, bicker, or gossip (at least not in public).

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