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Questions

After ICE-BREAKER

attempt to answerenclosed questions

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Questionnaire

Impossible People

My Boss

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Questions 1. Do you go out of your way to avoid your boss?

2. Do you usually ask your boss's secretary what kind ofmood he or she is in before stepping in to his or her

office to ask a question?

3. Do you hesitate to offer your opinion because it isn'tasked for or listened to anyway?

4. Do you rarely get a word of thanks no matter how hardyou work?

5. Does your boss criticize you in public?

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Questions 6. Is your boss "the Teflon man"? Does he slide away

from decisions and action?

7. Do you have to ask for feedback in order to get it?

8. Do you only hear what's wrong when you do getfeedback?

9. Does your boss frequently say, "Handle it," (without aword of explanation) and then disappear?

10. Does your boss play favorites?

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Questions 11. Does your boss make jokes about your weaknesses?

12. Does your boss respond to your requests for careerguidance by saying, "Just work hard and you won't have

to worry about it"?

13. Does your boss allow numerous interruptions whenyou're trying to talk to him or her?

14. Does your boss hog the credit for your work?

15. Does your boss keep dumping additional work onyou, in spite of your heavy workload, without making anyattempt to help you prioritize?

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Questions 16. Does your boss take every opportunity to enforce the rules in a

rigid, black and white manner regardless of personal circumstances?

17. Does your boss use phrases such as, "Just do what you're told."

"You're not paid to think."

18. Do people avoid applying for jobs in your area because yourboss's reputation is lousy?

19. Has at least one person left your area in the past year becausehe or she couldn't tolerate your boss?

20. Do the people in your work unit spend at least ten minutes aweek discussing the boss's behavior towards them?

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Questions 21. Do people in your boss's area rarely get promoted?

22. Does your boss talk at you instead of with you?

23. Do you complain about your boss at least once everyweek to a friend or family member?

24. Does your boss "forget" to tell you about informationthe rest of your peers know?

25. Does your boss frequently cancel your meetings withhim or her at the last minute because some "important"

issue has come up?

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Questions 26. Do you get a generic performance review without

specific examples of what you did right or wrong?

27. Does your boss say one thing but mean another?

28. Does your boss ignore your complaints or fail to acton them?

29. Does your boss call meetings just to hear himselftalk?

30. Do you rarely get an opportunity to try something new

in spite of repeated requests?

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Interpretation

If you circled 0 to 5, -GVS _ will counsel you

If you circled 6 to 10- GVS _will counsel you

If you circled 11 to 20-GVS_will counsel you

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