Managing Up for Professional Success

Knowing how to work with your supervisor can be one of the most challenging and most important components of a successful career. This session provides tips on how to “manage up” in order to build a successful, transparent and mutually beneficial relationship with your boss. Through an interactive session and reflective activities, participants learn concrete steps to better “manage up” to their supervisor.

This training will help you:
• Understand the concepts of managing up in context of your current supervisory relationship
• Reflect on personal habits or approaches which could be shifted to create a more beneficial supervisory relationship
• Learn to identify priorities of your supervisor to help build trust in your capabilities
• Describe concrete approaches to implement “managing up” strategies
• Identify an action plan to implement within the next 30 days to positively impact the relationship with your supervisor