Managing Upwards - 7 Steps to Mastering Your Manager

Managing Upwards is an integral but often overlooked part of leadership. It’s critical that you build a strong trusting relationship with your manager, where you are both aligned and working towards the achievement of your manager’s goals. The aim is to achieve a mutually beneficial relationship where they actively support your career, while you help them move towards the vision for the team.

It’s easy to think that it’s your manager’s responsibility for building a constructive relationship with you. However, if you wait for your manager to take the initiative you are very likely to be disappointed. Your manager has a web of complex relationships to maintain and accountabilities to fulfil on top of looking out for you. They may assume that at your level and experience you should be able to look after yourself. It’s a fact of life that the higher you go in an organisation the less likely you are to have a nurturing manager. You need to be proactive, courageous, and open if you want to develop a constructive relationship. In this article we give you 7 ways in which you can optimise your upwards management.

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Speaker:
Garin is an award-winning Organisation Development and Design consultant with over 17 years’ experience. He has supported leading organisations in London, Shanghai and Sydney in achieving their strategic objectives. He has experience working with companies of all different sizes and sectors including Legal & General, BNP Paribas, TP ICAP and Citigroup.

Garin is Chair of the CIPD London Organisation Development, Design, Culture & Transformation and Vice Chair of CIPD Central London. In these roles he delivers regular events that support the development of the OD&D and HR profession. Garin is a regular speaker and writer on Organization Development and his first book on decision making will be published later this year.

Garin's is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and his qualifications include an MSc in Systemic Leadership and Organisational Development (with distinction) and a BA (Hons) in Business from Northumbria University.

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