Ways To enhance Your Working Relationship with Your Boss

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Your Situation: You have too many projects on your plate. Your manager just gave you a new one which shares the same due date as another high profile project.
Your manager’s preferred Behavior Pattern: TRENDSETTER 3. Your manager’s actions: Because the business unit became responsible for a new product, your boss assigned each team member additional various tasks required to meet the release date.
Your actions (to date): You started working on it knowing that you have a full plate.
Your planned strategy: Knowing he is a Trendsetter, keep him informed about the relative difficulty of sourcing supplies for the product (some went out of business overseas – complex instruments needed, with only 3 available suppliers). So you need to set up relationships with other vendors, and hopefully you can network across the organization to get practical insights.
Your planned actions: Inform the manager – in his/her style – brief, direct – need to find new suppliers and establish quality control!

 

Key Pointers:

Think about what your manager says/does in specific situations and how you react.
Then strategize/plan for ways you can manage him/her in these recurring situations.
Be specific – think of a potential verbal response and or concrete action for each behavior exhibited by your manager.
‘Managing Up’ effectively is a continual process where you work towards developing and maintaining relationships that are mutual. It’s not a one time fix.

 

Yael Zofi