Employed Optometrists: How to Work Under Poor Leadership?

Being employed as an Optometrist is becoming more and more lucrative, especially for specialized Optometrists. However, some bosses have poor leadership, lack of good vision, and sometimes are less talented. When this happens the Optometrist feels like everything bad almost always falls on him. How can you succeed with working with an Optometrist who has poor leadership?

There are a set of objectives and answers that you must seek to achieve and answer before deciding whether you should stay or move on with another job.

First you should evaluate that you are not actually the problem and provide the right evidence to prove it. The higher the stakes, the bigger is the issue, and the more important are the consequences, the more specific, clear, and accurate the evidence should be.

Next, you should be able to assess how much influence and credibility you have with your leader with the issue being addressed. Unless you have credibility and influence your leader you may not be able to prove you’re right even if you have the evidence that supports your point of view.

Never complain about the issue to your coworkers, but rather deal with it privately with your leader. Give yourself plenty of time to think things through, and understand the possible reactions and outcomes before addressing him.

After you meet with the leader and after you have studied and understood all facets and co-worked them all through, you will have to decide whether to accept the situations and issues or leave. If he admits responsibility and vows to correct you must give him three to four months and see what happens. After four months if you see that everything is acceptable and you can cope with the current state you might decide to stay otherwise you must not waste time and start looking to go.