Know Your Team
Managing Up
- 6 on-demand lessons
- Reflection exercises
- Insights from other leaders globally
- A cheat sheet summarizing best practices
Sign up and get 1 lesson for free .
-
Rethinking Managing Up Free
10 mins Managing up impacts everyone. Us, our team, our manager, and even the company. Actions relating to managing up were found to be about 50% more important than managing direct re... -
When You + Your Boss Need to Strengthen Your Day-to-Day Dynamic
11 mins Be intentional with your time. MORE time gets wasted on unclear initiatives when we aren’t creating space to align with one another. Clear expectations for what we need. We ca... -
When You + Your Boss Miscommunicate
17 mins When we miscommunicate, it often can come from not either understanding what is expected from our role or our manager not understanding what we expect from their role. We need t... -
When You + Your Boss Disagree
19 mins Clear mind: Make sure you assume positive intent, emphasize the common destination (not the divergent paths), and show them the facts (don’t just tell them). Focus on the comm... -
When You Need to Give Feedback to Your Boss
15 mins No one agrees with another person 100% of the time. We have to normalize conflict. Dissent is truly an obligation in managing up They don’t know what we are thinking/feeling o... -
Scenarios About Your Own Boss
16 mins Now customize this framework to best fit your situation. To manage up, we need to be…Intentional with time. Define our roles. Find common ground. Normalize conflict. What do yo...
This page is protected by Google reCAPTCHA.
Learn more.
About your trainers…
Claire Lew
CEO at Know Your Team
Claire’s mission in life is to help people become happier at work. She’s been published in Harvard Business Review, Business Insider, Inc, CNBC, and Fortune, among others. She speaks internationally on how to create more open honest work environments.
Jenny Nichols
Leadership Trainer and Coach at Know Your Team
Jenny has a clear vision for the future: No more bad bosses. She has 10+ years in leadership development, and is pursuing her Ph.D. so she can better align data and research to leadership practices. She works with leaders to help them thrive.
