how to talk to your boss
HOW DO I HANDLE LETTING MY BOSS KNOW I'VE MADE A MISTAKE?
Here is the philosophy on how to let your boss know when you have made a mistake. Most people have a defense mechanism that they do not want to accept responsibility for it. Typically, when you were kids you would point to your sibling. Well he did it. Johnny did it. She did it. I did not do it. It was not my fault. That if the instinct. The proper thing to do is be an adult. Own up to it. Accept responsibility for what you have done wrong. Go and talk about it with your boss if you need to. So that you can bring it to their attention, so that they can help you to deal with it. If you are dealing with a client or sometimes you have liability issues. Whatever it is, you cannot go wrong by calling attention to what it is, so that at least your team and your company are better prepared to deal with whatever it is that went wrong. If you try to hide it. If you try to pocket it, you try not to accept responsibility or worse yet to push it off on somebody else, all you do is reduce the respect level that your coworkers and your boss will have for you and make yourself look bad. When you accept responsibility for it, even though you have made a mistake, lets your boss know that a, you are human and you were big enough to own up to it. It does not have to be the solution, it just has to be that they have been thoughtful enough and put in enough time and cared enough about what they were doing to be able to say, look Step, I made this mistake. Here is what I think we can do to fix it. What you think? And then at least collaborate with me so we can come to an agreeable solution. Something that is mutually beneficial to the company or to whoever we happen to be working with. You really can not fault someone when they put in the forethought and the time. It is like someone who puts an enough thought to write you a card versus dropping you an e-mail. Somebody took the time to get out the ink, to pick the fountain pen,
Here is the philosophy on how to let your boss know when you have made a mistake. Most people have a defense mechanism that they do not want to accept responsibility for it. Typically, when you were kids you would point to your sibling. Well he did it. Johnny did it. She did it. I did not do it. It was not my fault. That if the instinct. The proper thing to do is be an adult. Own up to it. Accept responsibility for what you have done wrong. Go and talk about it with your boss if you need to. So that you can bring it to their attention, so that they can help you to deal with it. If you are dealing with a client or sometimes you have liability issues. Whatever it is, you cannot go wrong by calling attention to what it is, so that at least your team and your company are better prepared to deal with whatever it is that went wrong. If you try to hide it. If you try to pocket it, you try not to accept responsibility or worse yet to push it off on somebody else, all you do is reduce the respect level that your coworkers and your boss will have for you and make yourself look bad. When you accept responsibility for it, even though you have made a mistake, lets your boss know that a, you are human and you were big enough to own up to it. It does not have to be the solution, it just has to be that they have been thoughtful enough and put in enough time and cared enough about what they were doing to be able to say, look Step, I made this mistake. Here is what I think we can do to fix it. What you think? And then at least collaborate with me so we can come to an agreeable solution. Something that is mutually beneficial to the company or to whoever we happen to be working with. You really can not fault someone when they put in the forethought and the time. It is like someone who puts an enough thought to write you a card versus dropping you an e-mail. Somebody took the time to get out the ink, to pick the fountain pen,