Becoming the ideal boss

Some time ago I posted a blog on the boss of a dream. Looking at a person from a subordinate side, what traits she should have. Now I want to drop a few tips on how to become a good boss. I won't mention here personal characteristics that every pro should possess but confine the list only by the ones describing an ideal boss, a boss others want to work with.

• Be a leader. It's been told thousands of times that one has to lead and not to manage but I don't agree do exclude the manage part though, anyway, leading is the predominant part of the leader-manager tandem. Personal example, initiatives, generation of ideas - the boss must work harder than her team members to become a model. Take some job on you even if you manage a very big group. Don't be just a task dispatcher and a reporter.
• Be a mouthpiece of the team. Promote the team, promote the people working for you. Make them known, build their publicity. Send the members to represent the team occasionally. Don't become the only face of the team. Don't accumulate members credits on your account but amplify merit and deserts of the group outside.
  
• Excite via interesting. Typically we read encourage instead. Agree, but the best encouragement is to let an employee to deal with things he loves. Not always it's possible to give all things they love. But at least know what they want to do and try to make it happen.
• Manage and care. Anew, the odious manage word. But that's a must of a good manager. While balancing between well-being of the company and well-being of an employee the latter has to prevail in the manager's choice. If it's impossible then it should be exceptional and caused by lack of any other choice. Try to protect your folks and reward their job. Promotions, bonuses, trainings, conferences, titles - just a few items in the arsenal. Don't be a cheapskate and don't care for the company too much at expenses of the people working for you.
• Make them want to work for you. People won't always work for you and you won't be their boss forever. Build great relationships with them and deserve their desire to work for you again in the future. Discuss with the employees their plans and dreams, help them to plan career paths and help develop them later. Don't hold the people if you know there is a better place for them and the company somewhere else. Put your employees above all and they'll work for you with desire, passion, and producing great results.

As usually, waiting for your feedback to replenish the list by your ideas.

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