Check out Yael’s next presentation on How to Manage Your Manager
When: Sunday, June 23, 2013 @ 9:15AM
Where: New Orleans
Credits: 1.50 CEUs
A strong work relationship with your manager is key to your success at the workplace. In this interactive session, Yael Zofi, Forbes-featured author of TOPS Managing Up and A Manager’s Guide to Virtual Teams will discuss her TOPS model of manager work personalities. Find out if your manager’s leadership style is a Trendsetter, Ongoing, Perfectionist, or Stable. Gain practical tips for managing your manager and position yourself as a strategic partner driving improved business performance.
Managing Up was always a sensible approach to learning how to manage your manager to improve one’s professional growth. With today’s economic conditions, heightened competition and evolving technology creating uncertainty and potentially fewer opportunities in the workplace, nurturing this key relationship becomes even more important.
You may consider yourself a reliable employee who produces high quality deliverables within budgetary and time constraints, but an uncomfortable relationship with your manager can work against your advancement. Even if you enjoy a good working relationship with him/her, there are always areas which you can improve, such as ways of communicating and handling differences.
Essentially, Managing Up is about creating a more successful working relationship between you and your manager. It is not about flattery or politics; it is about cooperating and building trust so that individual, shared and organizational goals can be achieved. More specifically, learning how to manage your manager involves being sensitive to the preferred work styles of your manager and adjusting your behavior to better facilitate a smooth working relationship.
Join Yael Zofi’s provocative session, Break Out of Your Manager’s Box: Manage Your Manager at the IMA Conference in New Orleans.
During her presentation, Yael will provide tips and techniques for how to manage your manager:
1. Diagnose your manager’s work style via a short checklist.
2. Discover the 4 TOPS managing up styles that can complement or conflict with your manager’s style, and explore appropriate approaches to influence expectations, project design, change management, and feedback delivery.
3. Develop 3 effective techniques that turn complaints into proposals.
4. Learn 5 practical tips for building better upwards working relationships.
5. Produce an action plan that drives improved business performance and helps you evolve into a strategic partner.
Following this presentation, Yael will be available for book signing and a Q&A session.
Join us if you can. For more information see http://www.imaconference.org//index.cfm or contact info@aim-strategies.com.
