Signs of a Supportive Boss

Supportive Boss: 3 Biggest Signs Your Boss Truly Cares About You

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Interestingly, 85% of workers hate their jobs according to a gallop poll. Even worse, a growing number of people are quitting their job because they hate their boss. Have you had a supportive boss? If so, can you recount the value and meaning it brought to you and your career? Truth be told, a supportive boss is hard to find. Let alone identifying one. Specifically early on in your career, your boss will be the biggest influence in your career success. 

Why You Need a Supportive Boss:

By far, a supportive boss is the most influential person in your career success. When your work is overwhelming and putting a strain on your personal relationship or family life, a supportive boss can be very helpful.

Another reason you need a supportive boss is times when you need advocates for major career appointments or select positions. Also, a boss that supports you can set you on a good course that will enable you advance quickly in your career.

How to Identify a Supportive Boss:

Would you like to know if your boss truly cares about you? Here’s some signs you should watch out for:

1. Trustworthy

Shockingly, a Harvard Business Review survey reveals 58 percent of workers admitted that they trust strangers more than their own boss. Trust is a very big factor in determining if your boss truly cares about you.

Most managers or supervisors who lack trust tend to be control freak bosses. Next, you will need to think about the following:

  • Is your boss genuine?

A genuine boss is always sincere and real. Meaning that, they do are not two-faced. While managers or supervisors who are genuine may not be the most likable, you can count on them to be authentic. With fake bosses, you can see their true colors when they are stressed.

Certainly, a supportive boss treats you the same in private or public. And he or she is consistent in words and action. So you have no fear of being accepted in private and denied publicly or vice versa.

  • Can you confide in your boss? 

Having a manager or supervisor that you can firmly rely on especially with career matters indicates that you have a supportive boss. It is important to realize that mutual trust and respect makes you confide in your boss.

  • Do you receive honest feedback?

A supportive boss tells you the honest truth when it really matters. Basically, a boss who truly cares about you will give you an honest feedback on your performance. No sugar-coating or destructive criticism. To learn more about getting honest feedback, check this out!

  • Can you be completely open and vulnerable?

With a supportive boss, you can expose your weaknesses at work and still be accepted as a valuable team member. Also, you are not ashamed or afraid to express yourself in conversations with your boss. For instance, you are open to sharing your current struggles at work without reservations.

In addition a supportive boss responds in a way that fits your needs, setting and personality.

2. Vested in Your Growth

  • Do you have a boss that helps you navigate the difficult challenges in your career?

If your boss is supportive, he or she will help you boost your confidence during tough times in your career. While your boss may not have all the answers for you, he or she can help build your judgement. What does this mean? During challenging times, your boss can help present you with clearer options that will help you make a better decision.

  • What skills have your boss helped you develop?

A supportive boss helps you develop your career skills. Particularly a boss that is vested in you will help you with resources for your professional growth. 

According this article by Inc, Great leaders know how to recognize talent in others. That are masters at placing people into the role they were always meant to have, at finding the best people for the most ideal tasks.

  • Does your boss support you even when it’s not in his or her best interest?

For instance, you want to obtain a new certification, go back to school or join a new team. Will your boss give you his or her blessings despite the discomfort or inconvenience your absence will create? What you may fail to realize is that having a supporting boss needs to go both ways. You have to give support to receive support. By being a dedicated and contributing worker, you encourage your boss to be supportive.

  • When last did your boss check in with you and your goals?

The average worker is used to getting a meeting invite from his or her boss when things are wrong. Or when the boss needs something. Ideally, a boss that truly cares about your career growth tries to set up a regular schedule to review your goals.

For example, a caring boss schedules weekly, monthly or quarterly meetings with you to see how things are going with you. These meetings give you the opportunity to discuss your progress, expectations, concerns and plans. Even more, the scheduled meetings can serve as a means for your boss to share advanced tips, helpful exercises and guidelines with you.

3. Meaningful Impact

Examine the impact of your boss on your personal and professional life. Then explore the following questions:

  • How has your boss impacted your outlook on work and life in general?

A horrible boss will make you dread going to work. In fact, working for a boss that doesn’t impact you meaningfully makes going to work feel like you’re stuck on a hamster wheel. Even though you are moving, you don’t seem to be getting anywhere.

  • Does your boss motivate you to become better?

People who work for managers that do not support them feel drained at work. Working for a boss that truly cares about you is very vital. Because a supportive boss motivates you to become better by presenting you with challenging opportunities. The challenging opportunities your boss exposes you to are very rewarding. Indeed, they help shape your perspective, unleash your potentials, improve your standards and boost your emotional bank account.

KEY TAKEAWAYS:

  1. What you may fail to realize is that having a supporting boss needs to go both ways. You have to give support to receive support. By being a dedicated and contributing worker, you encourage your boss to support you.
  2. By doing the things that make your boss’s life easier, you enable your boss to provide you with opportunities to learn and grow in your career.
  3. Never think your boss must have the final answers to important questions in your career. You are a different person from your boss. That being said, you may have to dig deeper or consult more sources for answers instead of thinking your boss is not supportive.
  4. After all is said and done, you have to make the last call on what extent you are willing to include your boss in your career journey.

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