upgrading your relationship with your supervisor.
DJ Mitsch, co-founder and president of the Pyramid Resource Group (www.pyramid resource.com), an executive coaching firm in Cary, N.C., offers these suggestions for improving your relationship with your boss:
• Understand your job is to help the boss win. Focus on doing a great job and explain to him or her that you understand the importance of success.
• Listen for their best intentions. If your boss is delivering bad news, ask questions to better understand what it is that he or she needs. Help him or her build context for what should be communicated to others.
• Tell the truth, as you see it, in a neutral way. Your boss wants to know what you think, even if there is resistance at first. If you have an idea about how to help the company improve, share it.
• Schedule a time to meet if your boss doesn't schedule it for you. Take a notepad with you, an update of your work, and anything else you want to boast. Be brief in this meeting. If you schedule 30 minutes, take 15 and give time back.
• Bless your boss on your way to work. Visualize a great meeting or communication exchange before you get to the office and manifest that through the day.
• Stop gossiping, especially about your boss. It always gets back and usually without your context and intentions. Learn to turn away from the negative discussions people tend to spend too much time participating in.
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