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7 Things Your Boss Isn’t Telling You (But You Need to Know)

Written by Jake Wider from Business Insider (copyright reserved) A core aspect of management is communication. So of course, most managers find a way to screw it up.  They hold back important  feedback . They fail to provide a meaningful vision or strategy. And they  struggle to communicate   expectations, setting people up for failure. Instead of helping people grow, they let them stagnate. Lou Solomon, writing for Harvard Business Review, reported that 69% of managers are uncomfortable communicating with their employees. The biggest surprise about this statistic is how low it is. Over two-thirds of   managers, likely well-paid and well-trained professionals, are uncomfortable with an essential part of their jobs. Who pays the price for this discomfort? Their employees. They don’t get quality feedback. They don’t understand expectations. And they lose opportunities to grow and improve. I hope you’re not in this group, although unfortunately, the odds aren’t in your favor. If you are,

Letter to the Boss

Dear Boss, This is the first time we are writing you a letter, not e-mail.  At the workplace, we only can talk about work issues and leave our feelings aside, so we guess this letter is the only place where we can put all our feelings without inhibition.  You always say that we are not driven enough, and we always want more pay but work less.  This is of course true, but aren't the shareholders also always asking for more profits with lesser manpower?  As employees, we don't consider ourselves as very hard working or outstanding, otherwise we would have been promoted to director and be on top of you.  Anyway, we like you to know that we don't wish to have lesser work, we just wish that you could be a better boss. In our opinion, you could be a better boss if you could just do the following 7 things: Instead of just telling us to to things, let us know the reason behind it .  In this way we will be able to do the work with more meaning, and with more meaning the qua