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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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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 ...
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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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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’...
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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 ca...
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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...
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Summarize What You Understand
Other people may have blind spots and one way to make them understand what you understand is to say to them, ‘So, As I understand, what you are saying is essentially this’ and summarize their position to them.
If your argument hasn’t yet gone in the irrational territory, this will wo...
The SAFE Technique: Engage
Once you don't feel so down, ask people you trust to help identify your blind spots and talk about improving these areas. Then look at the feedback you've received and compare it to what your boss said.
- Are there overlaps between the feedback of your...
Not Editing Your Work
Spelling, tone and grammatical mistakes can make you look careless.
- Don't rely on spell-checkers.
- Proofread your work.
- Use a dictionary to look up any words that you're unsure about.
- Reading your work aloud makes it easier to catch typos and tone errors....
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