Managing Up: Building Stronger Partnerships & Collaboration

Summary

Building strong relationships with your superiors not only leads to a better work experience, but also greater productivity, collaboration, and career growth.

In this interactive, 60-minute event we will show you effective tools for “managing up” to better partner with your higher-ups, make their jobs easier, and help you stand out as a leader.

Join us to discover how to:

  • Anticipate problems and actively work to prevent them
  • Adjust your work style and approach to better fit your manager’s
  • Handle conflict and difficult situations (or difficult people)
  • Become more flexible and take on more challenging projects
  • Provide constructive feedback to create positive situations

Program Highlights

How to Partner with Your Higher-ups

  • Ways to improve how you and your boss communicate
  • Methods to identify your boss’s priorities and pressures
  • Ways to manage superiors’ expectations - and your own
  • Techniques to develop mutual trust and respect
  • How to take ownership of your own professional success

Building Productive Relationships with Superiors

  • Proposing solutions along with asking for help
  • Keys to taking tasks off your manager’s plate, plus increase your role
  • Finding the best communication style to build trust and avoid conflict
  • How to present new ideas and take the lead on projects
  • Effective ways to provide both positive and critical feedback

Question and Answer Session - Your specific questions & unique challenges will be addressed!

Program Benefits

In this 60-minute, instructor-led program you will learn effective ways you can partner with higher-ups to make their roles function better, build strong lines of communication, and grow in your own role within the organization.

If you'd like this program customized for your organization, call us at 1-800-964-6033. We're certain we can fulfill your training needs, while making it fit in your budget!

About the Speaker

Cheryl Grazier
Cheryl Grazier

Cheryl is the Principal of Cheryl Grazier Consulting LLC and has over 20 years of business experience in both the public and private sector as a trusted advisor in the areas of culture change, strategy implementation, program management,... team and leadership development. Cheryl has worked in a variety of industries, including communications, government agencies, governmental contracting, and real estate. She is particularly passionate about developing people skills and leadership capabilities for individuals. She specializes in exposing people's hidden aptitudes and talents, which enables those individuals to develop their known and recently found strengths and abilities. Her most obvious qualities are her energy, compassion, inspiration, creativity, resourcefulness, enthusiasm and passion about everything she does. By inspiring individuals and teams to be more than they think they can be, she launches individual and group productivity and morale to new levels. Never satisfied with the "that's the way we have always done it" approach, she creates an atmosphere of innovation during her training sessions. She presents outstanding programs in the areas of leadership development, interpersonal communication skills, conflict management, performance management and conduct issues, change management, and project management. Believing that positive thinking is one of the keys to unlocking an individual's potential, Cheryl has devoured the writings and learnings of Canfield, Carnegie, Covey, Hanson, Maxwell, Nightingale, Peale and many others. She loves sharing her positive attitude with others and knows that a facilitator is one who enables groups to succeed long after her program. As both a participant and a facilitator of numerous personal development meetings in the past, she is proud to guide others though a process that truly delivers what it promises.