What Do You Know About Your Supervisor?
Establishing a positive productive relationship with your supervisor is one of the most important factors in achieving career success. Understanding how your supervisor thinks and works is the key to building a productive partnership. The answers to the following questions may give you insight into how your supervisor operates. (This is an exert from the book Workplace Savvy to be published this year.)
What Do You Know About Your Supervisor?
1. What are your supervisor’s top three work priorities?
2. How does your supervisor prefer to receive information (memos,
formal meetings, phone call, informal meetings, emails, texting, other)?
3. What is your supervisor’s preferred style of working?
____ Very organized and highly structured
____ Moderately organized and structured
____ Little organization or structure
4. Is your supervisor
____ More Introverted (Reflects inward and prefers quiet time for
thinking about things)? OR
____ More Extroverted (Reflects outward and prefers talking about
things with others)?
5. Is your supervisor
____ A big picture person? OR
____ A detail person?
6. Is your supervisor
____ Past oriented
____ Present oriented
____ Future oriented
7. What are your supervisor’s three outstanding strengths?
8. What is your supervisor’s greatest stressor?
Outstanding perspective on “reading” immediate management’s preference style. Please advise how the book Workplace Savvy can be preordered, or when it will go into publication.
Thanks. I will let everyone know when the book goes to print. You can always check out my web site.