Managing Down, Up and Across: Best Practices
Work is all about relationships \u2014 you and your boss, you and your managers, you and your teammates, you and your direct reports, and everyone else. Every single one of the relationships we have at work (as well as everywhere) has to be carefully managed, or it can go south fast. At work, compound that need to manage your relationships with the pressure of the workflow, and there\u2019s little margin for error. And teams are becoming the functional nucleus for more and more organizations.\xa0 81% of employees work on teams \u2014 cross-functional, multi-layered, remote, hybrid, of all shapes and sizes. And no team can function without great management and great relationships.\xa0 But here\u2019s the good news: managing is a skill like any other. There are effective strategies and approaches for every kind of managing we do: up, down and across \u2014 to improve our work, our effectiveness, and our relationships.
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Today we\u2019re going to learn from an expert on the workplace \u2014 in fact she\u2019s an expert on so many facets of technology and teams that it\u2019s hard to keep track.