Timeline for How do you explain to your boss they're wrong without making them feel threatened?
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| Jun 5, 2013 at 18:48 | history | made wiki | Post Made Community Wiki by Sarel Botha | ||
| Jun 5, 2013 at 3:32 | comment | added | Wesley Long | As any old ranch hand will tell you: You can't make the bull do what you want. What you have to do is convince the bull that what you want was his idea to start with. Most managers have a great many bovine characteristics. That's why they turn their head and look at you with one eye when they're trying to make decisions. | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 20:49 | comment | added | Rachel | +1 for the suggestion of asking leading questions that eventually leads to your boss to come to the same conclusion on his own. That is typically how I try to handle this kind of situation, as its much easier for someone to say "You bring up a very good point which leads me to realize XYZ, so this isn't necessary" as opposed to "I'm wrong, you're right, this isn't necessary.' | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 19:46 | comment | added | Frerich Raabe | What you may also find after saying "the only thing I see different between our machines is the way that your anti-virus is configured, do you think this could explain it?" is that you never hear back, and when asking them later how things are going they say "It just started working without me changing anything" because they'd rather not admit that was it. ;-) | |
| Jun 4, 2013 at 18:40 | history | answered | MrFox | CC BY-SA 3.0 |