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4 Ways To Impress Your Boss From 2 years of being an employee, 9 years of being a boss, and 11 years of working for people as a consultant, or independent contractor, I have learnt four things that have made my relationship with my bosses managable. Know Your Boss-What Your Boss Likes, and What Your Boss Does Not Like Does she like me smiling, early, and not asking many questions? Is he focused on graphics, pictures, and graphs? Do they have early morning “me” time, when I cannot disturb the? Does she prefer to talk slowly when she is mad, or to shout and scream? Does he prefer his visitors to be made to wait? Does he have preferred visitors who must not be asked to wait? Are there some friends she does not want to come to office? How does she prefer me to dress? Does he hate it when I have long hair? How does he like his coffee? When does she take her tea? I need to know my boss. Know What You Should Know What do secretaries like me do in an office? How do in house lawyers like me operate? What are the roles and responsibilities of high achieving accountants like me? In other top companies, how do administrators like me relate to their work? What should I know as a salesman? How do graphics teams work? What skill set must I have as the head of IT? What do people in my area do? Be A Student, Ask Questions The best way to get the things we want is to ask. The best way to clarify doubts is to ask. The best way to learn, is to ask. If and when I ask, I get a chance to learn, to reduce errors, and make less mistakes. The more I ask, the more I know about how my boss operates, and the less I will ask next time. When the boss is free, and you have finished your work, go to her, and ask her about how to do things more efficiently, how to do more, with less, and how to achieve results with little input. Ask her how she does it. Ask her how he did it. Ask him how to do this, and how to do that, BEFORE she gives you the task. Learn from your boss. Imbibe in her wisdom. There is a reason why she is your boss. Do Not Be Smart With Your Boss Do not argue. Do not hit back. Do not talk back. Do not be a smart ass. Do not seek to make him feel ignorant, unimportant, or irrelevant. Do not take sides against her. Do not come out on his opposing side. When you disagree, keep it to yourself, and then later, ask him what he thinks about a new strategy. Ask, do not state. When you do not like her approach, his strategy, or their format, ask, do not state. .……………………. Author’s Profile, Ojijo Pascal Ojijo Pascal, a lawyer, author of 49 books, public speaker, consultant, entrepreneur, investor, poet, pianist, speaker of 17 languages, and Inua Kijana Fellow, is the Founder & Lead at GoBigHub, a for profit social enterprise with a 10 year target of being in 1,000 African cities, connecting local entrepreneurs to local investors. Ojijo believes that the solution to Africa’s poverty, unemployment, and low productivity, lies in (1) connecting local entrepreneurs to local investors to access affordable capital; (2) connecting start up entrepreneurs to successful entrepreneurs for business mentorship; and (3) sensitizing individuals, with special focus on youth and women, to form business and investment clubs to leverage on social capital. GoBigHub is leading the move away from grants, promoting trade, not aid. GoBigHub charges 5% of the successful deals arranged. Ojijo is privately a consultant in communications (public speaking, strategic planning, and writing); an expert lawyer (ICT law, financial services law, law firm management, and legal rhetoric); a public speaker and coach on financial literacy and personal branding; and a consultant in collective investment schemes (investment companies, investment clubs, provident funds, and cooperatives). To aid in his consultancy, Ojijo is a best-selling author of 49 books; owner/inventor of financial literacy board game, ChapChap; a software for investment clubs and cooperatives, GoSacco. Over a period of 9 years, Ojijo has worked with a broad scope of clientele including Ministry Of Foreign Affairs Cooperative; National Environmental Management Authority(Uganda); Kenya Association of Investment Groups (AKIG); Kawanda National Agriculture Research Organization; Gender Ministry (Uganda); Nsamizi Institute(Mpigi-Uganda); 4Cs-Kenya; CREDO-Kenya; KHRC-Kenya; Foundation for Human Rights; Africa Youth Development Link; Technoserve; AIESEC; AYDL; UMYDF; CCEDU; FOWODE; PEDN; and over 20 investment clubs, over 50 individual clients, at least 15 cooperatives; and several other universities, companies, and individuals on various areas of expertise. He offers advisory support in legal and or strategic areas in various boards of various investment clubs, cooperatives, Bank of Uganda Financial Literacy Advisory Group, Uganda Financial Literacy Sharing Group (FLISG), and Competitiveness Secretariat of Uganda Ministry of Finance supported Investment Clubs Association of Uganda-ICAU. Ojijo is an Inua Kijana Fellow; Performance Poet’ Armature Pianist; entrepreneur owner of various startups; and speaker and aspiring speaker of 17 languages -English, Kiswahili, Luo, German, Luganda, French, Portuguese, Dutch, Zulu, Chinese, Spanish, Hausa, Kikuyu, Hindi, Somali, Jamaican Patois, and Arabic. M: +256776100059. E: ojijo@gobighub.com