Time and time again there’s many a manager who gets swamped with work that he can’t delegate, and sometimes the reasons are related to the manager’s inability to trust his staff to deliver on time or at all.

Delegating is an important skill for any manager. It requires a clear understanding of various team members’ skill sets as well as their ability to meet deadlines and work alone or with others.

At some point, as the boss, you get a new person in your group. He may be brand new, or he may be from some other department or made available after a reorganization. Regardless, a new personality is present. A good boss would, if possible, let all affected team members know about the new person in advance.

One of the really obvious qualities of a good boss is his ability to run a “good” meeting. Everyone who’s been to a good meeting usually remembers it as a pleasant experience.

Facilitating meetings between people for status updates, analysis, brainstorming sessions, emergency conferences, customer meetings, executive meetings and all the other get-togethers required in business is an art that needs to be understood and followed.

Turning yourself into a better boss is not easy, but it’s always possible. You may remember good or bad superiors from your past. What were the attributes that you agreed with, liked to emulate, or tried to avoid?

There are two parties responsible for building a better boss: the employee and the boss.

As an employee, there might be times when you’re tempted to be critical of your boss. You might think they are doing certain things incorrectly, aren’t doing their share of the work, don’t care enough for their staff, etc. Has this ever happened to you?Generally speaking, whatever side of the fence you’re on, the other side always seems easier — probably because of what you don’t know about the other side. Nowhere is this more true than when it comes to comparing your performance with your boss’.