When the Boss wants to see you...

Thursday 31 May 2007 at 10:51 pm The Boss wants to see you is a short but often not a sweet statement. A friend of mine heard those words this week and it turned out his suspicions were right. It was not a good thing. Whenever you hear, the boss wants to see you, immediately you starting reviewing what it could possibly be, what did I do or not do, that the boss wants to see me. Employees dread hearing the boss wants to see you because it usually means something is wrong.

Why is this so predictable? Because it happens 99.9 percent of the time, all right, maybe I am exaggerating, slightly. However, it happens enough that employees frequently complain that the only time the boss wants to see them is when something is wrong.
When you think about it the anxiety employees experience is the result of a lack of trust. Employees are uncertain about where they stand with their management. Their self-confidence has been replaced with insecurity. It is sad and unnecessary. All it takes to counter this is for the boss to ask to see their employees only when they have something good to say. The truth is if management did this they would see their employees something like 99.9 percent of the time, all right, maybe I am exaggerating, slightly. Can you imagine what would happen if management ignored the .1 percent of the time?