Managing Up: How to Get What You Need from Those in Charge with Melody Wilding

I don't personally think that a productivity tool can change your entire life, but I do think tools can lower friction and BrainfM falls in that category. It's a functional music app designed for things like focus, relaxation, meditation, and sleep, and it's definitely worth testing out like I did and got hooked on it years ago. What I did was I chose to try it during one real focused session of work. just to see if it would help me focus my attention better while I did that work. And the time flew by, I got the work done, and I've been using it ever since for that mode and all the others I mentioned.

And you can too. Try it out. Go to beyondtheto list.com slash brainfm and get 20% off or go to the link in the show notes of this episode. Again, try it out by going to beyondtheto list.com slash brainfm and you'll get 20% off and support the show. Hello and welcome back to Beyond the To-do list, a podcast about productivity.

I'm your host, Eric Fisher, and I'm excited to welcome to the show. Melody Wilding. I teased that she was coming on the show a few weeks ago with a different episode. She is the author of Managing Up, how to get what you need from people in charge. And in this conversation, we're talking about that skill of managing up, how you can communicate more effectively with your boss, make sure that your needs are being met, and Melody is sharing actionable strategies for setting boundaries, getting feedback, and aligning with your manager's goals.

We already have this episode, so unlocking it is cheap and permanent: the full transcript (50 minutes, 8,651 words), segment and word-level timestamps, and .txt, .srt, .vtt and word-level JSON downloads, as many times as you like, forever.

No account needed, we create one from your checkout email. With credits it is 1 credit; packs start at 5 episodes for $3.49, and monthly plans are cheaper still.