From the course: How to Manage Your Manager

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When and how to give your boss feedback

When and how to give your boss feedback

From the course: How to Manage Your Manager

When and how to give your boss feedback

- [Interviewer] So how do you dance in that world of providing feedback in the hopes that a boss will change the behavior? - [Interviewee] If you have the kind of relationship that you can give feedback, then you want to do it. You want to do it privately, you want to have that conversation, you want to make it so that you are showing your intention is to make them successful and your intention is to also let them know that you're on their side and you're going to have a request of a different behavior. But let me also caution that if the boss is truly terrible, they may not take that feedback well. If you really believe that it's a blind-spot and they don't know, that's good, but if they're truly a bully or a true, really heavy narcissist, that conversation may back-fire on you. - [Interviewer] Mmhmm. - [Interviewee] So you want to be really careful and also you want to look at, are you the only one being targeted…

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