From the course: How to Manage Your Manager
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Build a great relationship with your manager
From the course: How to Manage Your Manager
Build a great relationship with your manager
- [Pete] Okay, well, and so then I think for some who have never managed up, that maybe require a little bit of a paradigm shift, like, what? - [Mary] Yeah. - [Pete] Is that even appropriate? So maybe you could start there in terms of what is the appropriate way in terms of broad mindset and perspective to think about the extent to which we should be managing our bosses and how that works. - [Mary] Yeah, that's a great question, and it does require a paradigm shift for many people. So the first thing you want to think about is who is your boss and what are you willing to do to adapt to your boss? And when we talk managing up, I want to say, a lot of people have a misconception about it. They think it's about brown-nosing, or manipulating, or sucking up, or, you know, or being a boot licker, or anything like that. And it's really not that at all. In fact, if you are doing that, you actually aren't managing up. You're…
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Manage your career by managing up1m 41s
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Build a great relationship with your manager2m 7s
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Learn what your boss wants4m 18s
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Overcome your roadblocks to manage up and save time2m 39s
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Adapt to your boss3m 20s
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Delight each of the four boss types4m 1s
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Strategies for surviving horrible bosses4m 9s
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When and how to give your boss feedback2m 1s
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Beat micromanagers to their own questions1m 47s
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Take responsibility to adapt and develop1m 11s
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