The Conversations You Should Be Having with Your Manager
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You want to advance in your career. From getting things done as an individual contributor to showing you can build and motivate a team to demonstrating ROI and results. You're most often doing that within an organization, a management system, an organizational culture, and a power structure that you don't often fully understand, appreciate, or even see sometimes. How to succeed within such a system, what many people call managing up, is a skill that you can learn and develop with experience. And that effort pays off, not just in opportunities and rewards, but also just in your satisfaction in your work day to day.
Today's guest is here to help you stop seeing yourself as a victim of work. place whims and start moving forward in a productive way. Melody Wilding is an executive coach. Her new book is Managing Up, how to get what you need from the people in charge. Melody, thanks for being here.
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