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

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.
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Video Time Stamps
00:00 Intro
02:01 Challenge In Service Of Achieving Business Goals
03:47 Avoid Being Right
05:44 Ask Questions To Provoke Thinking
07:40 Provide Alternatives And Options, Not Problems
08:38 Seek To Raise Up, Not Put Down
09:39 How To Spot Valuable Ideas
11:20 In Summary
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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 leave them in the comments below and I will get back to you.
Jess Coles
Enhance.training

[@veronicalagor4771]

How do you navigate trying to challenge a boss who immediately gets defensive/combative when you even suggest meeting to discuss some options/alternatives?
Some bosses seem like they have no interest in solving problems, no matter how tactfully possible ideas are presented. The only employee they want is a yes person.

[@Enhancetraining]

Some bosses do only want a yes person (unfortunately for eveyone). Have you tried highlighting direclty to them all the good points about their idea/plan/solution before starting to talk about your ideas and alternatives. If they are insecure, compliments and validation might help. J

[@englishsimple1052]

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I am glad you found it useful. I am not sure exactly what you are asking for with "competency based questions" - would you mind being more specific. Thank you.

[@englishsimple1052]

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