Managing Up

1h 3mGeneral2017-02-25

Authors

Roberta Matuson

Global Strategist, Advisor, Author, President of Matuson Consulting

Course details

Are you ready to take charge, do good work, and get noticed for it? If you don't manage up, you may never have the opportunity to manage down. This course is designed to help you learn how to maximize your career by managing up. Leadership consultant and best-selling author Roberta Matuson explains what managing up is, what it isn't, and why it is important to achieving success. First, she helps you decipher the management style of your boss. Then she outlines techniques for building a strong relationship as well as how to avoid mistakes. She also addresses the need to master office politics, how to navigate your workplace effectively, and how to boost your performance by maximizing your personal and positional power.

Learning objectives
Identify strategies for surviving a dictatorial boss
Explore the meaning of power in the workplace
Examine ways to set a positive tone with a younger boss
Review effective ways to promote your accomplishments with your manager

Skills covered

Management SkillsLimited SeriesLeadership and Management

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome

1. Understand Your Boss's Management Style

02 - Decode your boss's management style
03 - Manage your boss
04 - Build a strong relationship quickly
05 - Avoid relationship mistakes

2. Office Politics

06 - Deal with office politics
07 - Why mastering office politics is vital
08 - Ensure your next play is the right move
09 - Acquire power in the workplace
10 - Maximize your power
11 - Three ways to avoid getting burned

3. How to Work with a Younger Boss

12 - Work with a younger boss
13 - Communicate to bridge the generation gap
14 - Be an employee, rather than a parent
15 - Put your younger boss at ease

4. Toot Your Own Horn

16 - Be heard in a sea of cubicles
17 - Common myths about self-promotion
18 - Toot your own horn
19 - Step into the strategic bragging arena

Conclusion

20 - Next steps