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- ***** DOCUMENTATION FOR PROGRAM "MY-BOSS.EXE" *****
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- Your comments would be appreciated. Send them to:
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- M. D. Smith
- c/o WAAY-TV
- 1000 Monte Sano Blvd., S.E.
- Huntsville, AL 35801
- (205) 533-3131
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- This is one of the more unusual programs in the series. It is
- a 30-point questionnaire designed to be filled out by
- subordinates in evaluating their BOSS. You could print out one
- of the questionnaires and make copies for employees to use to
- evaluate you, or whomever their boss might be.
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- Or, you could simply use the 30-areas to work on for yourself to
- try to become a better boss. These items have come from many
- sources. Many of them have come directly from employee gripes and
- complaints about their supervisor. It takes a strong person to
- let each employee evaluate him/her as a boss. An even stronger
- one to show the results to THEIR BOSS. So, depending where you
- are on the totem pole, use it for yourself in private, or let
- your employees evaluate you.
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- I suggest you run this program for yourself a number of times and
- each time try to improve your self-evaluation score. Just
- remember, that how you see yourself may be entirely different
- from the way your employees see you. Even if you are sure you
- are a good listener....if your employees think otherwise....
- who is right? Your employees are the ones that matter and you
- need to reconcile the differences.
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- An additional value of this program is that employees find
- themselves evaluated often, but they wish they could return
- the favor for their boss. Here, they can. If you did nothing
- with the resultant forms, morale can easily improve, just
- because you care enough to be interested in what they think of
- you. If the forms are turned in to YOUR BOSS, a signature can
- be optionally included. If they are to come back to you, they
- should be anonymous and deposited in the suggestion box, under
- your door, or something like that. It's the only way to get a
- meaningful, unbiased report. Otherwise, they will likely only
- report things they believe you will like to hear.
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- WARNING! This is potentially powerful medicine.
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- USE IT SPARINGLY !
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