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How to Adjust to a New Boss
Bob Weinstein is a journalist who covers technology, project management, the workplace and career development.
It happens every day. Suddenly your workplace world changes when you’re told that you’re going to be reporting to a new boss. If you’re lucky, you’re given a two-to-four-week heads-up. More often, it’s just sprung on you. Whatever the scenario, it could be a blessing or a curse.
It doesn’t matter how you’re positioned on the organizational ladder. Whether you’re a CIO, software developer, project manager or running the loading dock, a new boss can mean trouble.
No matter what your relationship was with your old boss, you have to start over and build a new one. If your new boss is a cross between Attila the Hun and General George Patten, you’ve got problems. Conversely, if he is an open-minded, progressive, team-building leader, it could be a new beginning and possibly open closed career doors.
Whatever your new leader is like, you have no choice but to make a rapid, healthy and productive adjustment, according to Louellen Essex and Mitchell Kusy. Essex is an organization learning consultant at the University of Minnesota, and Kusy is a professor in AntiochUniversity’s Ph.D. program in leadership.
Rather than wait to see how office dynamics unfold, they advise taking a proactive approach. They offer the following tips to help you build an excellent working rapport with your new …
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