Managing Up: The Do's And Don'ts And Why It's Important For Success
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What Is Managing Up?
Managing up is all about making your manager’s life easier.
Why would you want to make their life easier?! Your boss may make the final goal, but there are points for assists, plus the whole team wins when they score. In other words, if you help your boss, they look great and so do you.
It is about learning how to work well with somebody who may work differently than you.” Managing up, therefore, means that you understand your boss’ goals, position, blind spots, and objectives. You help them to meet their expectations and needs.
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How Managing Up Helps You And Your Career
The idea is that managing up is a win-win for you, your boss, your team, and your organization. Helping them will help you and your career.
- Managing up is all about relationship-building with your boss, who, whether you like it or not, plays a significant role in your career trajectory and your daily happiness, autonomy, purpose, and engagement at work.
- Your manager can put you on the best, biggest, and most visible projects. They can make you the star of the show! They can teach you how to become a leader like them, how to think more critically, and how to set and meet career goals.
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The Importance Of Improving Your Relationship With Your Boss
The truth about relationships is that however you feel about someone, they probably feel the same way about you. Or, at least they can guess how you feel about them.
Ask yourself this: If you don’t want to help your manager by managing up, then why should they want to help you by managing down? Having a less-than-great relationship with your manager isn’t doing you (or your career) any favors, especially if they have the power to fire you.
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The Do’s Of Managing Up
- Get to know your manager: Learn more about the human behind your manager. Find out what they like, dislike, and value most.
- Do an honest self-assessment: Consider how your colleagues and your manager view you.
- Adapt: You cannot change your manager (no matter how hard you try). But you can change yourself and how you react to others.
- Be proactive: Managing up takes some effort and proactivity on your part: if you know that your manager is too busy to notice something, be proactive and bring it to their attention.
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The Don’ts Of Managing Up
- Don’t manipulate the situation or others: Managing up is not about trying to manipulate every situation for your own personal benefit, no matter the cost.
- Don’t keep doing what frustrates your manager.
- Don’t add more to your manager’s plate: Adding more work to your boss’ plate isn’t managing up effectively. That means don’t bend over backward to take on your boss’ work when you’re already too busy.
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Working With Your Manager’s Strengths And Weaknesses
Remember that your manager is only human. They don’t have superpowers. Like you, your manager has strengths, weaknesses, good and bad personality traits, and personal goals.
They want to have a nice working relationship with everyone and help you (and them) succeed.
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