Bangalore: Do you think caring bosses are competent in the industry? You might be happier as your boss rarely notices your mistakes. How often you asked excuses to your lovable boss? You often tend to tag him as ‘empathetic and caring’. Is these meant your boss competent? No, they are not capable enough to promote you in work. You may be excused two or three times for the same mistakes. But it cannot bring up your potential skills. Not been fired at office never means you are great in your job. Probably your boss cannot figure out your mistakes. It signals your boss is incompetent. And they threaten to sink the company.

Good bosses are competent. They do more than just caring and make sure that job gets done. They often inspire you to drive better performance. This is not just a matter of competence but a matter of enhancing one’s perspectives too. Civilized and caring bosses can just be under the quotes, “nice guys finish last”.

These listed signs of incompetence will help you to identify whether your boss is incompetent or not.

1. Lacking Necessary Skills:

A manager asked to have certain skills to be proficient in his field. Necessary technical skills and leadership skills are the most important for one boss. At the most levels, a boss need to set expectations (to-do-list) on projects he handles. He has to assign works according to priority. He should monitor performance of his subordinates and should track development in projects. Providing feedback is most important to make progress in all fields. If he lacks these basic skills, you can identify he is among one of the incompetent bosses.