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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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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 lo...
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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 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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Dealing with a lack of direction
- Name the issue. Your manager might already be aware of the problem.
- If your boss wants you to take more ownership, you can say that you want to take more ownership for your projects but that you want to do so with confidence knowing what she/he is envisioning.
- You may hav...
Turn regret into motivation
- Acknowledge how you cope with regret: ignoring it makes it more present
- Stop the regrets spiral, until you are ready to face the situation with more clarity
- Revisit the story and identify practical lessons you can learn from it
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Acceptance of distracting technology
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Our willing acceptance of distracting apps and our culture of constant busyness shows how normal these things have become. So, feeling busy ...
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