From the course: Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager

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My boss never listens to me

My boss never listens to me

From the course: Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager

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My boss never listens to me

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- The first bad boss behavior, and these are not in any specific order, they're just 16 bad things. The first one I've picked is bosses who don't listen to you. And linked to that is bosses who don't involve you in their decisions, they just do their thing, and you're just a minion who works for them. They don't appear to value your opinion. So what can you do about that? And I've got two tactics. The first tactic is to compare how they treat you with how they treat everyone else. So talk to your colleagues and find out whether your boss listens to them. If you can find people with the same boss, ask how that boss treats them. Do they listen to them, do they involve them? Because if it's just you, that's a specific problem. The chances are it applies to everyone. So at least that's a bit of progress, 'cause you know that it's nothing personal. It's just that that's how they think they should manage people. So compare with how they treat other people, and that applies pretty much to…

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