Does anyone have any training information available on 'Managing Upwards'? Would be grateful if you would contact me.
Colette Johnson
![hanging umbrellas during daytime: skills](https://trainingzone.co.uk/app/uploads/2024/08/uhrrgjkppak-e1725018113661.jpg)
googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-1705321608055-0’); });
Does anyone have any training information available on 'Managing Upwards'? Would be grateful if you would contact me.
Colette Johnson
by
Leaders need to stop the self-sacrifice cycle
Middle management’s biggest challenge
Unlocking courage
3 Responses
Can’t contact you !
Hi Colette,
I can’t find any contac details for you, but I hope you check back for replies to your message.
If so – can you expand a little on “Managing Upward” ?
What level is(are) the candidate(s) ?
Would something like “Stakeholder Management” be useful ?
Managing from the middle
Hi colette,
I have a package that is called Managing from the middle and deals with leadership from Team Leader/Shift Leader position where pressures come from both ends of the spectrum
Ten elements of managing up
Hi Collette,
I see ‘managing up’ as a combination of awareness, diplomacy plus knowledge of one’s needs and values.
One of the coaching programs available to me as a CoachU grad lists ten elements of managing up around which a training program could readily be built;
1) I empower my manager to manage me well
2) I keep manager fully informed
3) I meet weekly with my manager to report and learn
4) I relate to my manager more as a great coach
5) I make strong requests of my manager so as to be able to produce well
6) I don’t compete or react to my manager
7) I immediately give my manager problems I cannot solve
8) I brief my manager well – data, options, recommendations
9) I put myself in my manager’s shoes and manage from there
10) I always stay in full communication with my manager.
I would add a unit enabling participants to recognise their own needs ( defining ‘needs’ as what they must have met to perform at their highest level ) supplemented by another on how to communicate difficult issues to ensure concerns are heard rather than being simply reacted to in the knee-fashion which is invariable negative.
The other piece of this is creating the corporate culture which grows people rather than consuming them like a fossil fuel – what I call a Sustainable Workplace.™
Miles of smiles,
Martin Sawdon.