Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
MANAGING UP
Managing Yourself
Steve Joiner
Wayne Scott
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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How Well Do You Know Your Boss?
You can't just be talented: You
have to be terribly smart and
energetic and ruthless. You
also have to become necessary
to people, by working hard and
well and bringing
more than your bones and your
skin to the project. Don't just
show up. Transform the work,
yourself, and everybody around
you. Be needed. Be interesting.
Be something no one else can
be—and consistently.
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Strategy Exchange
Katherine Hepburn
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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How Well Do You Know Your Boss?
We’re going to have
a facilitated
discussion &
knowledge exchange.
We know everything
we need to know
about managing up.
There aren’t answers
to every situation.
Our conversation
today is confidential.
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Some Operating
Assumptions
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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DVD CLIP & DISCUSSION
What are our
stereotypes and
unsavory
associations to
employees who
“manage up”?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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Who is
this?
George III
The mother
of all bad
bosses
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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“Managing upwards is
the practice of optimally
communicating
information, making
appropriate decisions,
and effectively
escalating issues.”
Bernardo Garcia, 2008
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What is
Managing Up?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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“Managing up is a
method of career
development that’s
based on consciously
working for the mutual
benefit of yourself and
your boss.”
April Green, 2013
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What is
Managing Up?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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“’Managing up’ is not kissing
up or believing you can
manipulate the situation. But
it is your job to deliberately
discover and implement
ways to most effectively
work with your boss to
deliver the best possible
results for all the
stakeholders involved.”
Peter Gruber, 2013
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What is
Managing Up?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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How Well Do You Know Your Boss?
“[T]he process of consciously
working with your boss to
obtain the best possible results
for you, your boss, and your
organization. This is not
political maneuvering or kissing
up. Rather it is a deliberate
effort to bring understanding
and cooperation to a
relationship between individuals
who often have different
perspectives.”
Wayne Turk, 2007
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What is
Managing Up?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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A Different
Paradigm
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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Transactional
Persuasion
Influence
Developing
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A Different
Paradigm
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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To authentically and
specifically articulate your fit
Bragging
Sucking Up
“Any color of” Nosing
Being disingenuous
Being Fake
Effective Communication
Managing Up
Networking
Information Sharing
Relationship Building
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What about Career
Development?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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Control
Influence
Concern
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Human Number Line
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10: Managing up is your middle name. It
comes naturally & you’re comfortable doing it.
7: You have an intuitive feel for it, but can’t
articulate what it is you’re doing or why. It seems
to work out.
3: You struggle with tension, cognitive
dissonance, not being on the same page, being
cross-wise.
1: “What the heck is this about?” “I have to do
that too?!” You struggle with the concept.
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Human Number Line
What is Managing Up?
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How Well
Do You
Know Your
Boss?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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BREAK
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
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Self
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State
Now
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Self-Assessment
What is Managing Up?
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REFLECTION &
DISCUSSION
How Well
Do You
Know Your
Boss?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Self-Assessment
What is Managing Up?
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Strategy Exchange
REFLECTION &
DISCUSSION
What did
you
discover?
What could
you do
differently?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Gallery Walk
PART ONE
What is Managing Up?
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Communicate
Stand Tall,
Don’t Cower
Depend on
Your Boss’s
Strengths &
Compensate
Understand
Your Boss’s
Perspective
Take the High
Road, Guard
Your Brand
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Strategy Exchange
PART TWO
What is Managing Up?
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How Well Do You Know Your Boss?
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Strategy Exchange
Communicate
Stand Tall,
Don’t Cower
Depend on
Your Boss’s
Strengths &
Compensate
Understand
Your Boss’s
Perspective
Take the High
Road, Guard
Your Brand
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
Reflective Dialogue
What is Managing Up?
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How Well Do You Know Your Boss?
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What’s one
challenge you
confront in your
relationship with
your boss?
What’s one
strategy that you
learned today that
you might use to
address it?
Managing Up: A Key Workplace Competency
What is Managing Up?
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How Well Do You Know Your Boss?
You can't just be talented: You
have to be terribly smart and
energetic and ruthless. You
also have to become necessary
to people, by working hard and
well and bringing
more than your bones and your
skin to the project. Don't just
show up. Transform the work,
yourself, and everybody around
you. Be needed. Be interesting.
Be something no one else can
be—and consistently.
|
Strategy Exchange
Katherine Hepburn