Bad Boss: Dealing with a Difficult Manager
1h 19mGeneral2018-10-10
Authors

Chris Croft
Lecturer, Thought Leader, Project Management, Leadership
Course details
Bad bosses are everywhere. In every industry, at every level. Dealing with a difficult manager is frustrating and impacts anyone's job performance. This course describes all sixteen different types of bad bosses—and their underlying issues—and gives you a playbook of responses for dealing sanely with these obstacles to your career. Chris Croft provides tips for dealing with abusive, demanding, and incompetent managers, and getting the credit, payment, and respect you deserve.
Learning objectives
Types of bad bosses
How to handle a boss who doesn't listen
How to handle a boss who doesn't give you authority
How to handle a boss who plays favorites
How to handle shifting priorities
How to handle lack of payment
How to handle lack of credit
Learning objectives
Types of bad bosses
How to handle a boss who doesn't listen
How to handle a boss who doesn't give you authority
How to handle a boss who plays favorites
How to handle shifting priorities
How to handle lack of payment
How to handle lack of credit
Skills covered
Teams and CollaborationWell-Being and Self-CareProfessional DevelopmentLeadership and ManagementOne-Off
Concepts
0. Introduction
- 01 - Exploring management issues
1. Bad Bosses
- 02 - Bad boss basics
- 03 - What type of boss is yours
2. Sixteen Terrible Bosses and How to Handle Them
- 04 - My boss never listens to me
- 05 - My boss is making terrible choices
- 06 - I'm bored
- 07 - I don't have the authority or tools I need
- 08 - They always want me to stay late
- 09 - My boss has favorites
- 10 - Example - Is your boss evil
- 11 - I never get praised
- 12 - They change their mind constantly
- 13 - My boss demands the impossible
- 14 - Example - Stand up to bullies
- 15 - Their promises never come true (promotion, pay raise)
- 16 - The top priority tasks keep changing
- 17 - Money issues - Lies, delays, and underpaying
- 18 - Micromanagement - I have no freedom
- 19 - Example - Removing your own freedom
- 20 - They lie to me
- 21 - They never say thank you
- 22 - My boss always takes the credit
- 23 - Example - No idea where to start
Conclusion
- 24 - Wrap up
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