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Managing Your Manager

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Discover how to manage up at work and strengthen one of your most important work relationships: your rapport with your boss.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
1. Understanding Yourself and Your Boss
  • Overview of managing up
  • Understanding anyone else starts with you
  • Exploring your social capital
  • Learning your manager's world
  • Understanding your manager's motivations
  • Understanding your manager's expectations
2. Managing the Relationship
  • Choosing your communication channels
  • Being helpful
  • Helping your manager make decisions
  • Making promises
  • Promoting yourself
  • Responding to feedback
  • Documenting issues
  • Avoiding tricky issues
3. Handling Common Challenges
  • Working with a new manager
  • Working with an unavailable manager
  • Working with a manager you'll never like
  • Working with a remote manager
  • Working with a self-important manager
  • Working with a less competent manager
  • Working with a mean or inappropriate manager
  • Repairing a damaged relationship
  • Next steps

Taught by

Todd Dewett

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