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Transcript:
Hi there everyone, and thanks for joining me today. If you’re in leadership, or if you’re in the workplace long enough, there’s going to come that time where your boss actually usurps your authority. It isn’t about you jumping the chain of command. It’s about your boss jumping the chain of command downward and going straight to your employees. Given enough times of this occurring, it can undermine your leadership, and it can just reflect poorly on the boss themselves. So what I recommend to tackle this, it the first thing is to actually take it to your boss. Your boss might not be aware really of the negative effects of their behavior, or that they are doing it in the first place. They might be seeing something and taking action on it, and just considering that part of their job. But talk to them and get clarification on why it is that they are doing that. Is it because you weren’t available? Is it because they don’t feel that you have an expertise in a particular area? But get clarification on why. There may be a very legitimate reason as to why they’re doing that. The other thing you want to do is to offer them an alternative at that time. So tell them that they can come to you with those things and you can disseminate it out to your team. That’s why you’re there is to take that load off of their shoulders. You want to highlight the benefits to them of going through you to work with your team. If you can highlight those benefits, you’re going to have a much better chance of having them stop that sort of behavior. So offer that alternative and then highlight the benefits as well. Now the other thing is even if you aren’t successful in getting your boss to stop this behavior you can also use this bad scenario for a good purpose. And that is communicating more with your team. If you’re communicating enough with your team, then it almost doesn’t matter what your boss does to usurp your authority, because you have that relationship with your team and that’s going to be something that they can hold onto even in the face of that uncertainty. So use that as an excuse to communicate more with your team. Call out the good that’s going on. Explain the “why” of the decisions that you’re making. And those round out that communication with your team, and so they’re going to give you the benefit of the doubt if there’s any question on things. Also, you’re able to jump in after the boss gets there and clarify things. And so you and the boss then look like you’re a team. The boss brings it up first, you then go and clarify and support the boss’s decision, and then it looks like a cohesive unit. And it doesn’t look like some sort of weird jumping of the chain of command. But those are the two things; go talk to your boss about those things and then talk to your team as well. Communication kills most of the ills in the workplace. Thanks so much, have a good one.
For more details on all of my leadership development tools and the details of getting me to come to your organization and conduct one of my workshops for FREE, just follow this link: bit.ly/2Suq5Ym
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Transcript:
Hi there everyone, and thanks for joining me today. If you’re in leadership, or if you’re in the workplace long enough, there’s going to come that time where your boss actually usurps your authority. It isn’t about you jumping the chain of command. It’s about your boss jumping the chain of command downward and going straight to your employees. Given enough times of this occurring, it can undermine your leadership, and it can just reflect poorly on the boss themselves. So what I recommend to tackle this, it the first thing is to actually take it to your boss. Your boss might not be aware really of the negative effects of their behavior, or that they are doing it in the first place. They might be seeing something and taking action on it, and just considering that part of their job. But talk to them and get clarification on why it is that they are doing that. Is it because you weren’t available? Is it because they don’t feel that you have an expertise in a particular area? But get clarification on why. There may be a very legitimate reason as to why they’re doing that. The other thing you want to do is to offer them an alternative at that time. So tell them that they can come to you with those things and you can disseminate it out to your team. That’s why you’re there is to take that load off of their shoulders. You want to highlight the benefits to them of going through you to work with your team. If you can highlight those benefits, you’re going to have a much better chance of having them stop that sort of behavior. So offer that alternative and then highlight the benefits as well. Now the other thing is even if you aren’t successful in getting your boss to stop this behavior you can also use this bad scenario for a good purpose. And that is communicating more with your team. If you’re communicating enough with your team, then it almost doesn’t matter what your boss does to usurp your authority, because you have that relationship with your team and that’s going to be something that they can hold onto even in the face of that uncertainty. So use that as an excuse to communicate more with your team. Call out the good that’s going on. Explain the “why” of the decisions that you’re making. And those round out that communication with your team, and so they’re going to give you the benefit of the doubt if there’s any question on things. Also, you’re able to jump in after the boss gets there and clarify things. And so you and the boss then look like you’re a team. The boss brings it up first, you then go and clarify and support the boss’s decision, and then it looks like a cohesive unit. And it doesn’t look like some sort of weird jumping of the chain of command. But those are the two things; go talk to your boss about those things and then talk to your team as well. Communication kills most of the ills in the workplace. Thanks so much, have a good one.
