Course overview

Course details

  • Understanding your Boss

    What's your manager trying to accomplish? You need to be curious and to discover this as well as their priorities, style, values and past experience

  • The Groundwork

    What do you want from your boss? Learn to see the context, establish the ground rules, clarify priorities and find out what works

  • Building the Relationship

    Learn to be specific, to share ideas and know the pitfalls. Find out what to avoid

  • Be the Solution

    Build on your manager’s strengths. Avoid overload and get to know the network around your manager for support and ideas

  • Making it Work

    Discover your manager's preferences. Learn to amplify the great work of others as well as broadening your understanding of leadership whilst adopting a positive attitude

Learning outcomes

  • By developing such a good relationship with your manager your reputation has been greatly enhanced.
  • Having understood your manager's communication style and methods of working, they've started to see you as an important asset.
  • Learning 'the golden rule of communication' has enabled you to create positive change. You're becoming the solution to your own success.
  • The great working relationship with your boss has led to improved outcomes for you both.
  • You're far more assertive, confidently sharing your ideas and achievements.

Ready to book this course?









    Frequently Asked Questions

    The course will equip your team with various effective communication strategies to forge solid working relationships with senior management. Your team will learn how to understand different management styles and further hone their leadership communication skills to develop positive workplace relationships that promote success in an organisation.

    Certainly-the course is designed to assist middle managers in carrying out their jobs with confidence in dealing with difficult situations. By learning to manage upwards and to communicate bad news tactfully, they can create better job satisfaction for themselves and their teams, hence ensuring a more positive and productive work environment.

    Managing Up Training Course builds practical strategies that help employees understand and work with even the most challenging boss's management style. With an emphasis on effective communication and relationship-building techniques, participants will be able to take any difficult workplace relationship and turn it into a powerful opportunity for growth and professional development and, in turn, be a more effective employee.

    You may also like these courses

    Women leadership training course

    Women’s leadership: Becoming a leader training course

    Slide-deck skills: Training course

    Slide-deck skills: Training course

    Effective business writing: Training course

    Effective business writing: Training course

    Negotiation skills: Training course

    Negotiation skills: Training course