What does it feel like to be your boss

What does it feel like to be your bossWhat does it feel like to be your bossI want to know what it feels like to be your boss.Whether youre in an interview, or writing a resume, or networking at an event, this is really what every future boss wants to know what does it feel like when you are working for me? How will I be able to get the results from you that I need to succeed at my job? What will be the good, and the bad, feelings well have working together on problems and opportunities here at this company?And thats a problem for just about all of us, because we tend to be much better at telling people heres what it felt like to be me.Obviously.We were there, we experienced it, we had the challenging co-workers, or the lack of resources, or the insurmountable problem, or the regulatory issue, and in our remembering of the events of our career, its natural for us to share them with others in just the saatkorn way we experienced them.And that misses your future boss point - she wants to know, based on your past, what it will feel like to be your boss in the future. He wants to know what hes getting out of this bargain, not what you got out of yours.And, look, I hear it all the time its embarrassing to talk about myself, Im not one to brag, or I wasnt raised to toot my own horn all the time, I just do the work. Me too. And I said some of the same things when I was interviewing for jobs earlier in my career, especially right out of business school.But you have to realize that this discomfort with horn-tooting comes from the contradiction in context. You were raised to not brag about yourself in social situations, but work, however social it may seem, is a commercial situation.And because its a commercial situation, there are real dollars involved. Just as with any product, the extent to which you mis-communicate the features, benefits, or attributes of a product is the extent to which your customers or clients wont buy it.In the case of employment, that product i s you, and when they dont buy because you mis-communicated, that means you wont get the job.So the extent to which you under-communicate your value is the extent to which youll be underpaid.And you dont want to be underpaid, do you?But theres actually a great way for you to kill two birds with one stone and communicate effectively to future bosses, colleagues and employers both how you match what theyre looking for, and not feeling too embarrassed in the process.And you do that by focusing on the facts of your work product, your work style, and your work output. Let people know that if they work with you, heres what they can expect the tasks that you are able to conquer readily, and the ones you are still learning the situations where you are strongest, and those youre not the problems that you love solving, and those that you dread.As you mature in your professional career, youll also mature in your communications and your ability to accurately convey your accomplishments without f eeling embarrassed. discuss your preferences within a role or field or industry. have conversations about hard failures or tough setbacks that youve overcome and learned from. share thoughts about work styles that are effective, and ineffective, for you. communicate what youre good at, by joking about what youre bad at - that sense of self-deprecation that gives an air of command, while not coming across as braggadocio.Because heres the thing. While its much more comfortable to express heres what it felt like to be me, what you really need to communicate is heres what it feels like to be my boss.In a modern, information-driven and collaborative workplace, being able to communicate well is your job. If you cant communicate well with your team, your co-workers cant work with you as effectively, your boss cant assign (or re-assign) you productively, and clients and customers wont know how to make the most of your efforts.When it comes to thinking work, communicating is just as importa nt as the thinking itself.Yep, by putting yourself in your boss shoes - by showing them what it will feel like to work together - youll be getting the most out of your career.Im rooting for you.