How to convey confidence in your workplace without putting yourself in your boss’s shoes?
Doing your job would give you a great feeling, even more so if you always deliver the products. Yes, accomplishing a great task, as always, is the result of the Big C. TRUST. Yes, this great feeling can really send you into a dizzying performance without difficulty, because you feel an extra energy that could even send you to the moon and perform non-stop until everyone drops dead in disbelief.
Yes, trust really counts for a lot. Well, before we get sidetracked, here are ways to exude confidence without making your bumbling boss think you’re a threat.
First, always ask permission. Yes, whatever task they assign you, better refer to it every time you need to do, change something from your original plan or what. There is no bigger problem for an incompetent boss than leaving him clueless about what is going on, especially if that project has him in charge.
Second, always make him appear knowledgeable. Even when you know he needs more, let him feel like he has something there. Yeah, never make him feel silly, you’re an idiot by not giving him the benefit of the doubt, even though you know the truth that he’s just covering up his flaws by acting bossy or you know what.
Third, never insult their ideas by pushing your own. Even if you owned an idea and yet he had a cheeky face to claim it as his own, let him appear to his co-workers as the brightest and all; if it backfires, you’re out of the loop and won’t have to take the blame.
The bad thing is that if he later blames you after the big failure… you’d better stop being his cat’s paw, the sooner the better.
Yes, there are more than three ways to exude confidence in the workplace, but what’s vital here is that you know that too much confidence kills the cat. There is no healthier reason to break up than ordinary unless you want to try something. So, face the consequences.
