Until now, the only risk-free way to get back at a bad boss is to quit your job. This will inflict little or no pain on your bad boss and, in this terrible economy; it’s simply not a viable option because jobs are so scarce. That’s why Harry Paul and I developed our Anonymous Bad [...]
Read the rest of this entry »As many of you know, Harry Paul and I have written a new book called, Instant Turnaround! which provides detailed instructions on how any Bad Boss can become a Great Boss literally overnight. All you have to do is visit our BossTrenz website (click here to go), and “tag” your Bad Boss by purchasing a copy of [...]
Read the rest of this entry »A number of Bad Bosses have already been Tagged. One Bad Boss who was Tagged has already stepped down from his managerial position and has accepted a non-supervisory position where he is much happier. In his old department everyone is relieved and extremely happy. One of the Bad Boss’s former employees remarked on the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »It has been estimated that the cost of employee turnover in America is 1.7 trillion dollars annually. That’s a huge drain on American businesses. Studies have also shown that the biggest single reason people quit their jobs is the behavior of their immediate boss–they were either abusive, didn’t care about them, didn’t listen, didn’t notice or appreciate what [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The biggest problem we face in the War on Bad Bosses is that most Bad Bosses think they’re doing a pretty good job. I asked one person, who I knew was a pretty Bad Boss–he was very prone to yelling at his employees–to read a copy of Instant Turnaround! This book will show any Bad Boss [...]
Read the rest of this entry »When an employee apears to be down, good bosses notice and take the time to build them back up. They go to them and say something like, “You seem kind of down today, is everything all right?” Then they make sure they listen to what that person has to say and then look [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Bosses who listen communicate clearly that they care about their employees. They understand that employees don’t want to listen to a boss tell his or her story, but those same employees are dying to tell their story to a boss who cares. So, if you as a boss are willing to take the [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Not long ago, a reader commented with her opinion on how to turn a Bad Boss around. Her comment is presented below:
“I say, ‘Kill ‘em with kindness’ and treat them like you’d like to be treated. MAKE UP praise if you have to. Negative people are not used to that vibration and will sometimes just [...]
Having fun at work suffers from an image problem; hence it gets no respect. It has come to imply that you’re goofing off or messing around instead of attending to the business at hand. Well, that’s simply not true. Fun acts as a turbocharger in that it releases energy in people that [...]
Read the rest of this entry »In 1927, three Harvard professors conducted research at a Western Electric plant in an attempt to find out what caused employee productivity. They found that the simple act of paying positive attention to employees had the dominant impact. Today, nearly a century later, we’re still finding that the vast majority of employees are [...]
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