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Youve probably heard that people don’t leave their job, they leave their manager. Its a popular saying because its often true. Having a toxic boss, however, is different than having one you simply dont like. If your boss is toxic, you need to take steps to protect yourself. But if its simply a matter of personalities not jiving, slow your job-search roll, suggests Stephanie Chung, author of Ally Leadership, How to Lead People Who Are Not Like You. There are people in your family you probably don’t like, she says. But if you like your company, you like your colleagues, you like how much money you’re making, you like your benefits, and the only thing you don’t like is your boss, then you really shouldn’t just jump to another role or another job. . . . Look at the entire totality of your situation and then decide if you should stay or not. Fortunately, you dont have to like your boss to grow in your career. Start by getting to the bottom of your dislike. You don’t just naturally not like somebody, says Chung. Go a little bit deeper to figure out why you don’t like them. Maybe there’s something about them that reminds you of something or someone else. Usually, it’s that you come from different perspectives, different backgrounds, different upbringings, and therefore have different viewpoints. If youre bothered by everybody that’s different than you, you’re going to spend too much time hopping around. Focus on Whats Important Even if you dont like your boss, you still need to perform well at work. Is this person hindering you from being able to do your job? asks Chung. If the answer is no, and you just have different personalities or different communication styles, you can still get the job done. When you dont like someone, the common response is to ignore them and talk to everyone but them. Chung says this is a mistake. Employees have a responsibility in creating a positive work environment. People find comfort in complaining to their colleagues, she says. It’s easy to point fingers. To say, The boss doesn’t know what they’re doing. This is a stupid process. I’m looking for the worker who says, I don’t think this makes sense, but instead of talking to April, May, and June about it, I’m going to actually go to the boss and say, I am not sure that I agree with the thought process here. From my perspective, it doesn’t look like it makes a lot of sense. Am I missing something? Often the root cause of not liking someone is lack of communication, miscommunication, or different styles of communication, says Chung, and the only way to fix that is to engage in more communication with them. If you want to move up in your career, you dont have to wait for your boss to make the first effort, she says. It is possible that there’s something that you are not doing correctly or as good as you may think. If you want to be that person who’s constantly moving up in their career, who has a brand that stands for itself in a powerful way, you’re going to have to own your stuff. Part of that in the workforce is being able to own the fact that maybe it is them and maybe its not. You play a part in your relationship, as well. By going to your boss to work out your differences or to clarify what could be misunderstandings, you demonstrate that you care about the company and want to take ownership for your career. Its managing up. Employees who want to move up, want to be seen as people who are productive and can add value to the company, says Chung. How you do that is not being the person who’s sitting around complaining. Its being the person who’s trying to help leadership and your colleagues solve the problem. An ability to work with people you dont likepeople who are not like youis an important skill to develop. Chung likens it to being on a sports team. If everybody on the soccer team was a forward, you’d never win, she says. In the workplace, the same rules apply. There are different positions, different talents, different strengths, different weaknesses. Different perspectives ask different questions. When everybody gets along because we don’t have any disagreements, we’re all cookie cutters of each other. But that doesn’t help in business. Leading diverse teamspeople who don’t think alike, act alike, have a back same backgroundis quite challenging, says Chung. The results are great, but there is a challenge to it because they’re so different. Real leaders [know] how to harness those differences in a powerful way that allows the team to be unstoppable and sets the company up to win. The key is knowing that the leader doesnt always have to be the one higher up on the org chart.
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Whether you’re setting up a new Windows PC or looking to enhance your current setup, there are some life-changing apps you can grab for free that will transform how you use your computer. From screen grabbing to file searching to quick launching and more, these essential apps will supercharge your productivityall for the low, low price of nothing. ShareX: Screen captures and then some Windows includes a basic screen-capture tool. Dont settle for it, though: Get ShareX, which rivals even paid screen-grabbers. You can create custom-capture regions that remember your preferences, set up automatic uploads with instant-link copying, and configure workflows that process and organize your captures. While the capturing features work great on their own, its the mind-boggling number of post-capture features that set this gem apart. If youre looking for a capture tool that does it all for nothing at all, this is it. Everything: File search that just works If Windows Search feels to you like it hasnt evolved since the Clinton administration, Everything wont leave you hanging. Instead of laboriously indexing entire files, Everything indexes just file and folder names, which means it can wrap its head around a clean Windows installation in about a second. Its powerful search syntax then helps you quickly find recent documents, filter by size to free up storage space, and create bookmarks for frequently searched folders. PowerToys: Microsoft’s best-kept secret Microsofts free PowerToys is a productivity suite that packs features that arguably should’ve been built into Windows from the start. FancyZones lets you create custom window layouts that snap into place. PowerRename handles bulk-file operations. Text Extractor grabs text from images or non-selectable. Mouse Without Borders lets you use a single mouse and keyboard on up to four computers. Those are just a few of the cavalcade of time-savers included with this excellent utility. If you havent already, get it installed and start reaping its benefits. AutoHotkey: Automate anything If you invest the time to learn how to use it, AutoHotkey will become the digital assistant you cant believe you ever lived without. Create custom keyboard shortcuts for just about anything, auto-fill forms with frequently used text, or launch multiple programs with a single command. The real power lies in its ability to chain commands together. With a bit of creativity, you can automate entire workflows that used to take dozens of clicks. Flow Launcher: Get there faster Flow Launcher is a little window that delivers huge time savings. Open it with a customizable key combination, start typing, and let it handle the rest. Use it to quickly launch apps, control music, search the web, run system commands, and moreall without having to click your way through a bunch of menus and windows. Its also got an excellent community-driven plugin ecosystem that lets you add features like password management, weather checking, and smart-home-device control.
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Theres one scarce resource that nearly everyone wishes they had more of: time. It always seems like there are more things to do than hours in the day. Many ways to squeeze more productivity out of your workday may leave you feeling burned out. But there are ways to trim the time spent on many aspects of life that will leave you with at least a little more wiggle room. Here are a few strategies: Create a guide to reduce interruptions If you often lose hours responding to emails and Slack messages asking different versions of the same questions, create an FAQ document with the answers all in one place. If you want to take it one step further, you can follow the lead of former Google vice president and Stripe COO Claire Hughes-Johnson, who created a Working with Claire guide. Its basically a reference manual to instruct people you work with. Fast Company writer Stephanie Vozza, explains: In her guide, Hughes-Johnson sets expectations, such as how to share information with her, and the amount of time she needs to send a response. It also includes her preferences, styles, and approaches, as well as alternative sources for help when employees are in a pinch and cant move forward. Trim all your meetings by at least 10 minutes Yes, many people think all meetings are a waste of time. And while some companies have taken the extreme approach of eliminating all recurring meetings, many meetings are necessary and help build and maintain relationships. However, very few of us fully pay attention for the entire length of a meetingespecially remote meetings. In fact, LiveCareer found that 9% of people start losing focus in less than 10 minutes into a meeting, while 43% said they lasted 20 to 30 minutes. Only 4% of people said they stayed focused for an hour or more.Knowing that attention (and therefore usefulness) drops off after 20 minutes, trim the meetings you have control over. Half-hour meetings become 20 minutes, hour-long meetings become 40 minutes, and by the end of the week youve reclaimed several hours. Do it now or delegate it To-do lists are a great productivity and organization tool, but we all waste a lot of time accumulating and then coming back to small tasks that end up eating up more time than they’re worth. Vladislav Podolyako, founder and CEO of Folderly, uses what he calls the Touch it Once (TIO) principle. Heres how it works for him: If I can do a task in 10 minutes or less, I do it right away. If not, I either delegate it to someone else or set it aside for at least a week.” Podolyako uses emails as a perfect example, explaining that many of the emails he receives require quick decisions. “If Im just bcc-ed, usually my action is no action at all. If I know someone who knows an answer better, I forward [the] email.” He adds that he saves time by focusing on “being helpful instead of crafting a beautiful-looking but useless email.”
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