Anonymous Boss Check-Up

Hello! If you're human, and you have ever worked for a boss of any kind, and you feel like investing 4-6 minutes of your time, I recommend completing this anonymous online form: https://forms.gle/xqqP58bYzDr8gSSW9 - picking a good, bad or somewhere inbetween boss you have had. 

You can fill it in for multiple bosses.

The benefits are:

1. For you: seeing your boss in new ways, and developing more space/distance/time between your boss and your organisation. This extra space will help you for the rest of your life either picking a new boss, working more effectively with your current boss, or being a boss yourself.

2. For me: the data you and other respondents around the world are submitting, are landing in a big spreadsheet that has been very useful to analyse and come up with insights I never learned in a textbook, classroom or through my own experiences as boss or team member.

3. For everyone: I turn the insights into public posts on various platforms, attempting to reach and help different folks who have these kinds of challenges and would be helped by receiving some insights and tips for the situations they find themselves in.

Thank you in advance for helping yourself, me and the large community that is growing around this initiative.

Team Member Tips for Manager's Bias, un-Equal Opportunity and non-Rewards

Inspired by REAL Anonymous Boss Feedback (last Wednesday Data Drop https://lnkd.in/eMFFanwR)

In this post's data-led insights, I sow on hard ground. Data or not, team members who experience any of these 3, or combo of them, are not performing at their best. Worse, from anecdotes I hear, boss biases are extending into the neurodiverse spectrum:

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗼𝗱 (those who chose their management well, or got lucky with being inherited by the good)
🌟 2 in 3 have unbiased bosses
🌟 2 in 3 have bosses who give equal opportunities to all demographics
🌟 2 in 5 have bosses who reward with promotions and prizes objectively
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗕𝗮𝗱
😱 1 in 3 feel boss is in self-denial and is biased
😱 2 in 5 feel boss is in self-denial and is gender biased
😱 2 in 5 feel boss sometimes rewards objectively
𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗴𝗹𝘆
😱 1 in 10 feel boss is obviously gender biased
😱 1 in 10 feel boss rewards friends

𝗧𝗲𝗮𝗺 𝗺𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 𝗲𝘅𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗨𝗴𝗹𝘆?
🦠 Anger / cynicism / disengagement / fear / disgust / distress / unsafe / superficial team building / clock watching?
🦠 "𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿" - 𝗔𝗗(𝗛)𝗗 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗦𝗗

🫣 Leave! Leave! Leave! 

But sometimes, it's not possible to go immediately. And sometimes if you stay long enough, they will leave before you...

So today we're looking at survival strategies in a toxic environment. These improve your health for the whole of your life, whether you end up staying because you can happily and magic happens, or you end you leaving because you do land a better job and manager elsewhere. 

✅ 𝗥𝗲𝗳𝗿𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗮𝘀 𝗼𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝘆
The famous "growth mindset" works! Step into it, every day, all day, intentionally! You have a context, a clear cause, and you can focus on a few conditions to intentionally make changes.

✅ 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗻𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗵
Grow and protect your energy levels. We need more than air, food, water and sleep. Develop your "life affirming essential" rituals - and practice daily.

✅ 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝘁𝗼 𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀
Be listened to - tell them what's going on, how you are feeling.

✅ 𝗦𝗮𝘆 "𝗡𝗼" 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝘁 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸
Learn and establish your boundaries, based on your own needs, prioritise your own holistic health.

✅ 𝗦𝗲𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀' 𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗱𝘀𝗲𝘁𝘀
Differentiate your boss as a person from their mindsets. Name the mindset in a question - "Can I check something with you? It sounds like you have a strong belief/attitude towards [some label]? I'd love to understand you more - are you ok to talk about it?"

✅ 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱
Grow a movement, leading by example the above tips.

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