Google has been studying its own management team, and together with customer satisfaction surveys, has come up with the 10 top attributes of a good boss.  How do these compare to your notion of what makes a good manager?

1. A good coach: one who helps employees through problems and uses them as valuable learning points.
2. Empowers the team, rather than micromanaging, by letting you use your skills instead of trying to do everything for you, or watch over your every move.
3. Creates an inclusive team environment, where people are encouraged to introduce new ideas, and success and well-being are encouraged.
4. Productive and results focussed: a good boss helps out when necessary, and ensures the team know what their group and individual goals are.
5. A good communicator – this is both sharing information to the team, and good at listening too.
6. Supports career development, including discussing performance.  This is best achieved using feedback to help the employee work towards their goals.
7. Has a clear strategy for the team:  so the individuals in the team know what is expected of them, and what you need to do to get there.
8. Has technical skills needed to advise the team.  Your boss should at least have an understanding of the tasks they are asking the team to undertake. 
9. Collaborates across the organisation, by having good relationships with other members of the organisation outside of the immediate team.
10. Is a strong decision maker, able to take informed decisions rather than constantly prevaricating or avoiding decisions.

As an employee, how does your boss score against these factors?  And if you are a boss, can you honestly claim all 10?  And what would your employees rate you as?

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