How to Handle Criticism from your Boss
So, you think you’re doing an amazing job, but then your boss tells you he/she isn’t pleased with your work. How do you handle it and use the criticism to your benefit? Our Director of Mojofication weighs in…
Exercise #1. Find a friend that you can be completely, did I say completely honest, open, and irreverent with and spend at least 5 minutes making your boss totally wrong, thick –headed, unaware, lacking in intelligence and not at all good-looking.
Test # 1. Are you laughing your ass off yet? If not repeat Exercise #1. If you are laughing – not just a little chuckle – a full-I-can’t-believe-I-put up-with-this-crap-in-my-life then go on to Exercise #2.
Exercise #2. OK, could it possibly be, not really, but a teenie, tiny chance that just maybe my boss sees something about me that could in-some-weird-off-chance-way contribute to my development, ask yourself what could that possibly be. Even though it is off-base and couldn’t really be something that has any relevance.
Test #2. You look in the mirror and can say with an Italian accent, as though you are talking to your boss, ‘you don’t know who your fu*king with buddy!’ Go on to Exercise #3.
Exercise #3. Write down the gist of what your boss said on a small piece of paper, crunch it up and throw it in the waste paper basket. Not just a little toss but a full, last-second-of-the-game-slam-dunk-for-the-championship-throw-down. Proceed to test #3.
Test #3. You have your resume completely up to date, your finances are secure and the person you are in relationship with loves you. Proceed to Exercise #4.
Exercise #4. Make a fist, point your index finger, extend your arm straight out, walk into your bosses offices, place your finger in the center of your bosses’ chest, back your boss into the wall and say, ‘never, do you understand, never, say, think or even look like you might say that again, got it?’ remove finger, relax arm, slowly back out of your bosses’ office, walk though the office nodding at your former colleagues, give a little nod, a smirky smile, humming, ‘you don’t always get what you want, you get what you need, you don’t always get what you want, you get what you need, oh yeh’
Written by: Bix Bickson, Director of Mojofication