HOW TO KNOW IF YOU'RE A GREAT BOSS

Do you ask your employees questions?  By that, I mean the “why, who, what, where, and when” ones. If not, you may not be the best boss you can be. That can impact more than your employees’ morale. It can hurt your bottom line.

Rene Boer — a certified EOS Implementer in the Chicago area — recently published an insightful post for the EOS blog about that topic. An excerpt:

“If you’re like most bosses, you do most of the talking. Frankly, this one-way-street behavior needs to change. Your job is to ensure that the dialogue is 80/20, where your direct report is doing 80% of the talking and you’re talking only 20% of the time. The only way to make that happen is to ask questions instead of making statements.”

You can read his complete article here: Why Great Bosses Don't Tell You What To Do.