How to Be a Better Boss

Taking it to a Whole New Level at the Workplace

Nora Beane
You only have to worry about how to be a better boss if you have already managed the basics of being a recognizably good boss. But once you have reached the point as a boss where you are successfully managing a company, small business, school or social service program, then you are appropriately positioned to take to take it all to the next level by strengthening and refreshing the skills that have brought you this far and perhaps dancing out a few new ones.

For workers, a better boss is one who goes beyond just being courteous in a business sort of way It's not enough for the better boss to remember his please and thank you's for services rendered. Knowing how to be a better boss means learning how to add sensitivity to our ordinary dose of acceptable manners. Examples of office sensitivity would include asking after the family members of employees, taking time to notice and respond when a worker is looking tired or stressed, maybe in a small office even remembering birthdays, anniversaries or holiday's with some simple gift. The better boss takes time and puts more of himself or herself into interpersonal relationships with office employees.

The good boss ma very well provide for a clean office environment but if you want o know how to be a better boss, tr making a real effort to improve over all conditions in the common space shared b ll workers. you don't have to spend a bundle to have fresh flowers around the office, change up the pictures that have been hanging around for ears or put out coffee and snacks occasionally . Regard for the quality of life that workers find around them at the workplace can lift workers spirits and will likely allow them to see you not just as a good boss but as a better boss.

Another avenue that can lead to building up our personal reputation as a good boss would be to extend a welcome to the ideas and suggestions of employees for strategies that will benefit the company or organization for which you all work. Where a good boss might put out a suggestion boss, the better boss makes suggestions a matter of importance. The better boss follows up on good ideas, invites workers to become involved in implementing them and rewards their efforts both financially and with some tape of open recognition.

Perhaps the one most obvious ways in which a good boss becomes a better boss is when that boss finds a way to include all employees in the company business as if the were in fact one big family This doesn't just mean handing out bonuses in good times, it means finding way to make each employee feel a sense of ownership in the company

An outstanding example of this kind of approach can be found in the person of Bob Moore, owner of "Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods. Moore announced in February 2010 that he would be acting to gradually transfer ownership of his company to the some 209 workers who were currently with him. B awarding stocks to all workers Moore, acting the part of the better boss for sure, provided each laborer with a full share in the profits of a highly successful small business. While Moore will still be the boss on a day to day basis, from now on he will surely be seen not just as a good boss but as a better boss b all those who work side b side as co-owners of "Red Mill".

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Published by Nora Beane

I am a former high school history teacher and Director of Religious Education with a total of 27 years of active experience as teacher and administrator. I am now a semi retired freelance writer. I have two...  View profile

  • Alread a good boss? Then it's time to thing about being a better boss.
  • A better boss is one who is senstive to the person and professional needs of emploees
  • An example of a better boss is Bob Moore who made emploees the eventual compan owners.
Bob Moore of Bob's Red Mill Natural Foods determined in Feb. of 2010 to transfer ownership of his compan to his 209 emploees through stock gifts.

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  • Betty Alexander7/12/2010

    Your article reminded me of a fabulous boss I had several years ago. She was a woman who was about twelve years younger than me, and I know for many, that might be a dreadful situation. But it wasn't. She was probably the best boss I ever had because she never talked down to me, she always treated me with respect, and she always made me feel appreciated for the things that I did. You couldn't ask for a better boss than that. As for Bob Moore, I actually wrote an article about him myself here on AC several months ago. I was very impressed with him too.

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