How to Cope with Having a Younger Boss

Maybe you have been out of the workforce for a while (especially if you've been at home with the kids for a time) and have returned to a younger crowd in the office. Or perhaps a youthful star performer has risen through the ranks quickly and is being promoted faster than you can bat an eyelid. Whatever the reason, if you are faced with taking orders from a boss who is younger than you, it might not always be easy. It is important to gain some youthful perspective in this case and learn how to cope with grace and enthusiasm.

How to Go from Co Worker to Supervisor

Changing your role from that of coworker to being supervisor is challenging. There will always be someone who won't want to let you shine and be the real leader you are but you don't need to be held back by their arrogance and small-minded attitudes about your abilities. Make the transition and be determined to succeed.


1. Be confident. When your boss sees how confident and sure you are of yourself, he will be glad he chose you as a supervisor.


2. Be patient. It will take time for coworkers to get used to the changed circumstances for all of you. Once you lay off some of that heat, you're working environment will be a lot easier.


3. Don't get above yourself. Still talk to your coworkers as always. However, realize that they may feel discomfort toward you now too.


4. Ignore those who choose to belittle you. If they are obsessed about you getting the role over themselves, consider it to be a bad case of jealousy. If they are happy for you, be glad.


5. Believe in yourself. Management saw your potential, so live up to it!

How to Be an Effective Project Manager

A project manager must be able to set priorities to be effective. This requires an ability to create a hierarchy of projects, tasks and activities. In addition, key factors such as safety, availability (time) and quality assurance must be taken into account and followed through.

How to Be a Good Boss

You're the boss. But it's no fun (and very difficult) being a boss who is not respected, ineffective at managing staff, or is even actively disliked. How do you get your staff to be the best thing that ever happened to you? By being the best boss that ever happened to them. This article is intended to be helpful in a smaller, more casual setting. Although the tips could be helpful to a person in a larger, more formal executive setting, some would not be appropriate in those settings - see How to Be A Good Manager for advice in a more formal setting. But if you're someone who is pretty much the ultimate authority in his or her company or store (a small business owner or a general manager (GM) for a retail store, for example) here's how to be a good boss.

How to Set Goals

The next time somebody tells you that setting goals is really a lot of hype, tell him/her this: if life is a journey, how will you get there if you don’t have an itinerary? Goals tell you where you are going, how you are going to get there and what you will do when you get there.

How to Be a Good Manager

In every large organization, there's a hierarchy of management that keeps the whole operation running smoothly. Whether you're a senior (upper level) manager, middle manager, or supervisor, you're responsible for directing people so that the organization's goals are accomplished. A good manager can motivate people, learn from previous mistakes, and gain respect from a team. This article focuses on managers in a large organization rather than in a small business (see How to Be a Good Boss) or working on specific projects (see How to Be an Effective Project Manager).