Managing up

‘Managing up’: how to manage your relationship with your boss more intentionally and impactfully for your career progress

WHY MANAGE UP?

Some of the things that can come in the way of a good working relationship with the boss are: lack of agreement on the challenges to be solved, or the solutions that could work, unarticulated assumptions, unclear expectations, inadequate communication and a contrast in working styles or simply in personality.

However, when the relationship works well, you both enjoy effective & free-flowing 2-way communication, clear expectations, common direction, good alignment, mutual trust and camaraderie. On top of this, the organization too benefits.

If you walk away with nothing else from this article, I want you to be convinced about two key things…