Your manager plays a pivotal role in your professional journey, influencing everything from organisational goals and teamwork to providing essential coaching, feedback, and advocating for your needs. But have you ever considered how you can actively contribute to this vital relationship? Our comprehensive online course, 'The Art of Managing Up,' empowers you to transform your employee-supervisor dynamic into a truly collaborative and effective partnership.

This 9-lesson, 23-page course, meticulously graded on assessments, unveils the win-win strategy of managing up. It’s about doing your best work, communicating effectively, and adding significant value to your team by anticipating needs and actively supporting shared goals. This isn't about flattery or manipulation; it’s about fostering an interdependent relationship where both parties thrive, enhancing your value at work, and paving the way for promotions or raises. By taking this course, you'll learn to help your manager help you, ensuring an effective, collaborative relationship.

Through this course, you will acquire essential professional skills to navigate the complexities of modern workplace dynamics:

• Get to Know Your Manager’s Work Style: Discover how to observe and align with your manager's preferred communication channels (e.g., video, email, direct messages), update frequency, feedback methods, and overall communication style (e.g., direct, analytical, enthusiastic, supportive). Learn to tailor your approach and effectively communicate your own needs to ensure you are heard.
• Communicate Effectively and Proactively: Master the art of addressing issues early, sharing your unique ideas, and expressing disagreement respectfully using fact-based language and a neutral tone. You'll learn to provide essential details (Who? What? When? Where? Why? How?) and align expectations by asking thoughtful questions about project, performance, and behavioural norms.
• Take Ownership: Go beyond fulfilling basic responsibilities by proactively researching and presenting solutions to problems, consistently meeting and exceeding performance goals, and bravely taking responsibility for mistakes. Drive your own career development by identifying your interests and goals, discussing them with your manager, and seeking out relevant opportunities.
• Bridge the Gaps: Identify your unique strengths and proactively seek opportunities to fill critical needs for your manager and team. This involves taking the initiative to share your time, knowledge, and skills, making your manager's job easier and adding immense value where it's needed most.
• Contribute to a Positive Team Culture: Understand the profound impact of your actions on the team environment. Cultivate high-value behaviours such as showing genuine care, communicating empathetically, embracing challenges with enthusiasm, giving credit, asking for feedback, and avoiding gossip and drama, thereby fostering trust and camaraderie.
• Recognize Your Manager’s Humanity: Gain a deeper understanding that your manager is also a person with bad days, setbacks, stress, their own job pressures, and a personal life outside work. Learn to manage your assumptions, express sincere appreciation, offer support for their professional goals, and always respect their valuable time by eliminating unnecessary meetings and preparing thoroughly.

By mastering these strategies, you won't just improve your relationship with your boss; you'll significantly enhance your own career growth, professional resilience, and overall job satisfaction. Enrol in 'The Art of Managing Up' today and start building the collaborative, successful work life you deserve!