The relationship with your boss is maybe the most important relationship you have at work. Boss management can stimulate improved performance; perk up your working life, job satisfaction, and workload. Give your boss a hand over and reap the plunder.
To avoid the 'no' that will mess up your and your team's eagerness, give her a hand.
The more simple the difficulty or issue at hand is, the less time you should have her spend on it: get ready, sum up and synthesize information and option. Do not confuse your more recurrent evils with the most significant ones.
Get ready for your meeting: first because the benefit is to the one who is prepared, second because the preparation helps you decrease the time taken to come to the middle issue.
Don't give her only the bad news: give her too the good news. If you keep bring only bad news, little by little you turn out to be the bad news yourself. Don't decrease good news, because you want to focus on the evils. By doing that you add to create a bad atmosphere.
You inundate her with technological stuff she does not understand, hoping that the amount of technical jargon will knock her down and force her to have the same opinion with you. It may work, but it may turn out to be a barrier in communication leading to lack of trust.
Do not promise dates for final projects you cannot handle. If you see that too much is asked of you, sit down and re-discuss priorities previous to proceeding, rather than becoming you a bottleneck. Involve your boss in the procedure, so it becomes a ordinary priority.
By making the supposition that she will check what we write or say anyhow, and that she will make changes, we now and then tend to be slack in our writing. Tables are not over, text is not re-read, places we are departing to be not visited earlier, spelling is not checked, and in order is missing.