5 Safe Ways To Challenge At Work And Giving Feedback To Your Boss

02/15/24 • 12 min

Learning safe ways to challenge at work can be career defining. Challenging at work is a crucial element of building better ideas and solutions. Being comfortable and skilled enough to challenge your boss without upsetting is one of the secrets to stand out at work.
Learn 5 safe ways to challenge at work and giving feedback to your boss.
How to give feedback to your boss can also be one of those difficult conversations at work. So few managers get useful and constructive feedback from team members. When you are good at giving feedback to your manager – it’s a great for how to stand out at work.
Firstly, try to challenge others at work in service of reaching business goals rather than for personal reasons. Most bosses support those trying to do good for the group and don’t support those challenging to be difficult, to annoy others, to avoid their fears etc.
Secondly when challenging your boss or others avoid being right. Positioning what you are proposing as being right, the best or the right way is very confrontational. You are implying the other person is wrong. Much better is to offer alternatives, improvements, and options. This is even more important when giving feedback to your manager.
Asking questions is a great way to challenge more subtly. Use questions to lead the other person to the problems, to the alternative routes, to better solutions. Using questions is great when safely challenging your manager.
Always seek to provide alternatives and options rather than highlighting only a problem or adding to the problem. This is always received better and also portrays you in a stronger way.
Lastly, seek to raise up rather than put down. Choose your words carefully and always aim to help, improve, build. This is key part of effective communication in the workplace.
If you have any questions on “5 Safe Ways To Challenge At Work And Giving Feedback To Your Boss”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.
Jess Coles

Enhance.training

Enhance.training

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Jess Coles

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If you have any questions on “5 Actions for Building Responsibility in Teams to Increase Performance”, please email me at [email protected] and I will get back to you.
Jess Coles
Enhance.training