Managing Your Line Manager
Professionally, we all report to someone. Whether it\u2019s a client, customer, shareholder or boss.
\nSo what's the best practice for managing a line manager, to ensure you both get what you want and need?
\nHow to Induct
\nDemonstrate your collaboration skills and experience
\nEstablish you will say the right kind of no, when it\u2019s appropriate
\nUnderstand your manager\u2019s goals and objectives
\nExtrovert or Introvert? Sensing or Intuitive? Feeling or Thinking? Planful or Spontaneous?
\nHow to Brief
\nConstantly feed useful and informative information
\nStay calm in a storm
\nPresent evidence-based options, to reduce risk in decision making
\nUnderstand your manager\u2019s preferred working style
\nHow to Report
\nAlways present opportunities not problems (partially solve or present options in advance)
\nSolve the tiny problems and save the big stuff for your manager
\nProactively seek 360 degree feedback
\nBecome a go-to specialist
\nHow to Negotiate
\nStay task-focused
\nWork with ROI and achievement of objectives
\nSet and retain healthy boundaries
\nAppreciate your manager\u2019s blind spots
\nHow to Influence
\nAdmit and be vulnerable
\nPrioritise what you\u2019ve been asked to do and share/negotiate re-prioritisation
\nUse we more than I
\nConsistent, evidence-based, binary decision-making
\nFocusing on Best Mutual Outcomes
\nALWAYS have your manager\u2019s back
\nHelp your manager look great to their peers
\nBuild on strengths, infill weaknesses
\nGet a mentor
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