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Online Courses: Managing Up
Online Courses: Managing Up
Online Courses
Managing Up (1 hour, 3minutes)
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.
Succeeding in a New Role By Managing up (20minutes)
The start of a career is an exciting yet vulnerable place to be. You have the freshness and energy on your side, but you also have very little experience with how your industry and your new company actually work. The good news is you’re not alone. We’ve all been there before. This course brings together advice from a diverse set of experts, such as Oscar-winning actor Ed Norton and Adam Grant, the youngest tenured professor at Wharton. They explain how to develop a fearless mindset and build the productivity and networking skills you need to succeed in a new role. By understanding the dynamics that early-career employees face and “managing up” by building strong relationships, you can gain the confidence and support you’ll need to thrive. This course includes videos from: Edward Norton, Oscar-winning actor and founder of CrowdRise Kathryn Minshew, founder and CEO of The Muse, a career-discovery platform Adam Grant, Wharton professor and expert in motivation and behavior Sarah Robb OHagan, executive, activist, entrepreneur, and the CEO of Flywheel Sports Simon O. Sinek, author of Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action Note: This course was produced by Big Think. We are pleased to host this content in our library.
How to Manage Your Manager (27 minutes)
Managing up isn’t about flattery or brown-nosing. It’s about consciously building a good relationship with your boss: understanding how you both like to work, and then taking adaptive strategies to really work well together. In this course, adapted from the popular podcast How to Be Awesome at Your Job, host Pete Mockaitis interviews Mary Abbajay, president of Careerstone Group, LLC. Mary explains how to how to manage up, understand who your boss is, and adapt to different personality types. Pete and Mary talk about the ego obstacle, surviving a micromanager or toxic boss, providing constructive feedback, and having tough conversations. Plus, learn the tiny, yet powerful, thing you can do to differentiate yourself from 99% of employees.
Book Recommendations: Managing Up
Book Recommendations: Managing Up
Books
Managing Up: How to Forge an Effective Relationship With Those Above You
Authors: Rosanne Badowski, Roger Gittines
Summary: Everyone has a boss. And anyone who has aspired to move up the corporate ladder knows that their relationship with those they report to is crucial. In Managing Up Rosanne Badowski offers a straightforward, entertaining, no-holds-barred account of what it takes to make your relationship with your boss work to your advantage, no matter where you stand in the corporate hierarchy. Everyone is a manager, in one way or another, Badowski points out. She discusses first-hand what it’s like to have to be a mind reader, to anticipate the future, to plan for the unexpected, and to perform the impossible. With refreshing candor and a hint of attitude, Badowski’s advice is unlike any other. She advises us that “Impatience is a virtue,” to “Have no shame,” and to “Beware the too-quiet office.” Having worked in one of the most challenging, high-profile corporate environments anywhere, no one knows more about prioritizing, about making decisions on behalf of your boss, about sifting through a daily barrage of data and information, about multitasking at warp speed, and exhibiting grace under fire. Ultimately, Badowski says, excelling at what you do is about a shared passion for the job.
HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across (HBR Guide Series)
Author: Harvard Business Review
Summary: By managing up, down, and across the organization. Your success depends on it, whether you’re a young professional or an experienced leader. The HBR Guide to Managing Up and Across will help you:
Advance your agenda―and your career―with smarter networking
Build relationships that bring targets and deadlines within reach
Persuade decision makers to champion your initiatives
Collaborate more effectively with colleagues
Deal with new, challenging, or incompetent bosses
Navigate office politics
Managing Up: How to Move up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss
Author: Mary Abbajay
Summary: Managing Up is your guide to the most valuable 'soft skill' your career has ever seen. It's not about sucking up or brown-nosing; it's about figuring out who you are, who your boss is, and finding where you meet. It's about building real relationships with people who have influence over your career. Managing up is good for you, good for your boss, and good for the organization as a whole. This book gives you strategies for developing these all-important connections and building more than rapport; you become able to quickly assess situations, and determine which actions will move you forward; you become your own talent manager, and your boss's top choice for that new opportunity. As a skill, managing up can do more for your career than simply 'networking' ever could―and this book shows you how.
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