Be My Best Boss: 11 management tips from your employees

By Florian Borgeat

Did you know that the number one reason employees change jobs is because they want to change their boss? In a recent 2013 Glassdoor/Harris Interactive survey, two out of three (66%) of employees say that their direct manager has an impact on their career. That is why I’ve written the book “Be My Best Boss.” With 25 years of professional experience I’ve created a list of 11 ways that managers can improve their relationship with their employees to achieve the results you are looking for. I list ways to develop better one-on-one relationships and create a more inspiring work environment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Florian Borgeat
• Release date: Jun 24, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301549016

Florian Borgeat

Florian Borgeat has been working in Business Administration for over 25 years, in a broad range of fields from banking and education to pharmaceuticals and telecommunications. At the same time, he has pursued a parallel career as a photographer, actor, film producer and musician.

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Be My Best Boss

11 management tips from your employees.

by Florian Borgeat

Copyright Florian Borgeat – 2012

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Cover photography - Amelia Fox, Fotolia

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Care

Trust

Delegate

Be available

After work activities

Performance evaluation

Cancel the useless meetings

Kill the open space

Flexible hours, part time, work from home

Fire when needed

Praise and raise

Conclusion

About the author

Preface

To all the employees and managers throughout the world who interact every day in the hope of making the world a better place.

To Monica.

And a very special thanks to Alissa for her contribution to this book.

Introduction

Did you know that the number one reason employees change jobs is because they want to change their boss?

In a recent 2013 Glassdoor/Harris Interactive survey, two out of three (66%) of employees say that their direct manager has an impact on their career.

I have been an employee for 25 years in almost 20 companies. I’ve had over 60 bosses and hundreds of colleagues. I have experimented on a daily basis with all sorts of management types and witnessed the various effects on the employees, their motivation and their profitability.

I have had a few great managers and, unfortunately, a lot of bad ones. In the following chapters I share my views on what any manager could easily do to improve his team’s efficiency.

I hope you will appreciate my singular point of view.

Chapter 1

Care

This one comes first. If you only had to remember one tip, it would be this one. This is as easy as it gets: care about your employees.

A lot of managers see their employees as parasites, only there to milk money from the company while producing the least possible amount of work. If you are one of those managers, you might want to reconsider your opinion. While there might be one hopeless, grumpy person in your team, and we’ll deal with that one later on, the majority of employees are here for other reasons. It is not for the money.