WORKPLACE SPECIAL .......5 WAYS TO Earn Your Manager's Respect

5 WAYS TO Earn Your Manager's Respect





An employee-manager dynamic can be happier and more productive when both respect each other. Simple things like finding out your manager's work style and adapting to it, demonstrating initiative and having regular feedback conversations can put you in your manager's good books and ensure heshe respects you as an employee. Brinda Dasgupta brings you suggestions from the experts on how you can go about it.

1 Suit Your Manager's Work Style

Work towards matching your day-to-day function ing to suit your manager. “Figuring out whether your manager likes to communicate through emails, whether heshe wants to be updated even about the smallest details or only about the important as pects of a task, can be helpful. Engage in regular conversations to determine his/her preferences and operate appropriately,“ said Pankaj Khanna, vice-president of talent acquisition at Mindtree.

2 Get Peer Support

It will be hard for your manager to not acknowl edge your capability if you have the respect of your peers. “Work on becoming the most valuable person within the team by collaborating and part nering with peers on their projects,“ said Khanna.

3 Don't Give Excuses

If you have underperformed on a deliverable or failed at an allocated task, do not give excuses.

“Owning up to where you have gone wrong and promising to do better next time is a great way to earn your manager's respect. It shows your maturi ty and willingness to pick yourself up from failure,“ said Sandeep Kohli, national director of HR at EY.

4 Be More Proactive

Proactively taking initiatives where one finds scope for growth or improvements is crucial. “It is also a good idea to have rapidly changing goals.

Your success within the team greatly depends on how proactively you engage with your manager to get visibility and alignment to the changing goals of the organisation,“ said Prashant Parmar, senior di rector of enterprise business and HR at Simplilearn.

5 Make Your Manager Successful

While it is important to know your own KRAs and deliver on them, it is equally important to have a basic idea of your manager's KRAs as well. “This will help you know what you can do to push your manager towards success, which will ensure he she appreciates your efforts,“ said Kohli

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