The 10 Conversations You Need to Master at Work | Melody Wilding

When you hear managing up for decades, it's been equated with being a suck up, ingratiating yourself, knowing your boss's coffee order, laughing at their bad jokes, right? When they ask you to do something, you know, they say jump, you ask how high, that sort of mentality. And That That is a old school way of looking at managing up that may have worked twenty or thirty years ago, but It's

It's obviously sort of out of pace with our culture now, and it's not going to get you what you need now. And so the Managing up as I define it, really when it comes down to it is how do you navigate and build relationships with the people that have more positional authority than you? Namely, your boss. But not just your boss. Because

Now your your m direct manager may be one of many people that have influence over your projects, your career trajectory, your bonus, your salary. And so if you're thinking about managing up as just You know, my boss is my number one customer. You're gonna put yourself in a a risky position. Welcome to Behavioral Groups, I'm Kurt Nelson. And I'm Tim Houlihan. You just heard from today's guest, Melody Wilding, the author of the new book, Managing Up.

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