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SELECTING THE RIGHT BOSSBY
JACKIE KROENING
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Keys to selecting your boss?
Know Yourself!• Where you are in your professional development?• When do you work your best?• What type of environment do you work the best
in?
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Behaviors of a good boss:
• Encourages Your Professional
Empowerment• Supports Your Decisions• Maximizes Your Promotional Opportunities• Supports Your Professional Growth• Provides stability and security• Empathic to your personal life• Communicates Organizational Issues• Transmits your worth to company executives
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Why do people leave their jobs?
1. Conflict with manager
2. Professional growth
3. Prevented making a difference
4. Work for a visionary leader
5. More money
Fast Company Magazine 1999
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Barriers to Empowerment
• Unclear roles and responsibilities• Insufficient budget for personal capability • Insufficient rewards and incentives• Lack of enthusiasm, motivation• Lack of org. understanding – business, customer, product• Lack of communication - goals, strategies, direction,
performance feedback• Lack of trust, support, delegation• Lack of time and resources• Inapproachability of management
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Dictatorial
Benevolent
Manager
Facilitator Collaborator
Servant
Visionary
LeadershipStyles
Development Model
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DictatorialSafety
Security
BenevolentSecurityFamily
ManagerFamily
Institution
FacilitatorInstitutionVocation
CollaboratorVocation
New Order
ServantNew Order
Wisdom
VisionaryWisdom
World Order
LeadershipStyles
World Views
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DictatorialTyrant dictator with oppressed followers who are totally dependent
BenevolentBenevolent paternalist with followers who are dependent and obedient
ManagerEfficient manager with followers who are loyally devoted to the organization
FacilitatorClassifier, supporter and listener with followers who are also clarifies, listeners and supporters
CollaboratorFacilitator, producer, creator with intermediate peer participation
ServantInterdependent administrator with collegial participation
VisionaryLiberator with a global network of peer visionaries
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Honor
Hierarchy/Order
Law/Rule
Responsibility
Reason
Service/Vocation
Adaptability/Flexibility
Decision/Initiation
Law/Guide
Quality/Evaluation
Self Assertion
Accountability/Ethics
Mutual Accountability
Pioneerism
Leadership Style Key Words
Safety/Survival
Security
Self-interest/control
Dictatorial
Control/Order
Economics/Profit
Family/Belonging
Obedience/Duty
Property/Control
Self Worth
Territory/Security
Benevolent
Achievement/Success
Administration
Competence/Confidence
Competition
Duty/Obligation
Education/Certification
Efficiency/Planning
Management
Productivity
Rule/Accountability
Manager
Facilitator
Collaborator
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Communications Gap
INFORMATION
Differencein
World View
100 %20 %
Developmental Style Style -1
80 % Meaning loss if:
Difference of one or more styles
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Question to solicit Management Style
In your view, why is this company in business?
Lessen for the key words to
determine their leadership style
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Managers Response• Benevolent: This company is here to make a
profit, make me money, and make the company secure!
• Manager: Make a profit, provide jobs, produce quality products and services and be the most successful company in our industry.
• Enabling: To serve our customers through quality products utilizing our professional expertise and adjusting to changing customer requirements.
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Managers Response continued
• Collaborator: To apply all our professional skills, knowledge, creativity, of our company to move our industry forward.
• Servant: To be successful by combining all of our resources with other company’s with similar goals together improve our industry and world community as a whole and make everyone's quality of life better.
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Managers Response continued
• Visionary: To make a difference in securing global justice and human rights for all people, make the world a better place to live, and to utilize our technology for the betterment of mankind, and operate all business on a global bases with ethical practices.
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Other Questions
• Why do you come to work everyday?
• What is the main goal of your group?
• What is your vision for the future of your group?
• Where do you see yourself going in this company?