When you ask people what you can do to improve your work life, many suggest building a good working relationship with your boss. It can be a scary notion at first, but it can make or break your career. It will also be more challenging to advance your career if you do not try to make yourself known to your boss.

However, when you try to strengthen your relationship with your boss, how much information should you share? Should you give them detailed accounts of your personal life, or should you stay with the basic work details? Your boss may even take things into their own hands if they believe you are not making the effort. When this happens, it can make things more awkward between you by sharing their personal experiences in an attempt to break the ice.

If you are still trying to build your working relationship with your boss, here are the top things to remember so you don’t overshare with your boss:

Reduced Respect

There are general rules about what you can share at work and what you shouldn’t. Usually, you do not speak about sensitive personal information such as your troubles, medical records and even negative sentiments about your work. If you share too much information, it can make things uncomfortable for others, especially for your boss, and even lose the respect they have for you.

Remove The Focus Away From Work

Oversharing with your boss can also remove the focus on your work and more on your personal life. If the personal details you share are too specific, it will cause people to have a negative impression of you and make you look like you are insecure or irresponsible. Their judgment about you will also be clouded because they think your issues will cloud your judgment and credibility.

Boundaries Will Be Crossed

Sometimes, oversharing can lead to boundaries being violated or crossed by accident. Some of these boundaries include prying into another person’s business and even getting into detail. When oversharing occurs, everyone will find it difficult to stop speaking about their personal information at work. Eventually, people will lose their focus on their work and even bring the discussion to a whole new level that may be detrimental to the business.

It is not wrong to build a strong relationship with your boss and give them information that may help you deal with all the stress you are facing so that they can help you find ways to get past it and perform better at work. Even if your bosses experience days off and should they share information with you, they may have good intentions in mind. However, it is essential to remember that there are certain things you should try to avoid sharing, even if you think it could help you a little bit.

Remember, you need to distinguish between work and your personal life, or you will clearly find it hard to separate one from the other.

Building a relationship with your superior? These are helpful articles for you:
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Is Your Boss Difficult to Please

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