Managing Up: Building Stronger Partnerships & Collaboration
On-demand recording
90 minutes | INSTRUCTOR-LED TRAINING
Building strong relationships with your superiors not only leads to a better work experience, but also greater productivity, collaboration, and career growth.
In this interactive, 60-minute event we will show you effective tools for managing up to better partner with your higher-ups, make their jobs easier, and help you stand out as a leader.
Join us to discover how to:
- Anticipate problems and actively work to prevent them
- Adjust your work style and approach to better fit your manager’s
- Handle conflict and difficult situations (or difficult people)
- Become more flexible and take on more challenging projects
- Provide constructive feedback to create positive situations
Program Highlights
How to Partner with Your Higher-ups
- Ways to improve how you and your boss communicate
- Methods to identify your boss’s priorities and pressures
- Ways to manage superiors’ expectations – and your own
- Techniques to develop mutual trust and respect
- How to take ownership of your own professional success
Building Productive Relationships with Superiors
- Proposing solutions along with asking for help
- Keys to taking tasks off your manager’s plate, plus increase your role
- Finding the best communication style to build trust and avoid conflict
- How to present new ideas and take the lead on projects
- Effective ways to provide both positive and critical feedback
Question and Answer Session – Your specific questions & unique challenges will be addressed!
About the speaker
Cheryl Grazier, Principal of Cheryl Grazier Consulting LLC, Cheryl Grazier Consulting LLC
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