Managing Up

Learn how to work effectively with your manager, maximize your career, and achieve success in the workplace.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. Understand Your Boss's Management Style

• Decode your boss's management style
• Manage your boss
• Build a strong relationship—quickly!
• Avoid relationship mistakes

2. Office Politics

• Deal with office politics
• Why mastering office politics is vital
• Ensure your next play is the right move
• Acquire power in the workplace
• Maximize your power
• Three ways to avoid getting burned

3. How to Work with a Younger Boss

• Work with a younger boss
• Communicate to bridge the generation gap
• Be an employee, rather than a parent
• Put your younger boss at ease

4. Toot Your Own Horn

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

Conclusion

• Next steps