Well timed after our class discussion on managing up, I received an e-mail from The Support Center about an upcoming training of theirs:
Managing Up: How to Enhance Your Effectiveness with Organizational Leaders
Wednesday, November 03, 2010 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM (Eastern Time)
In class we had some different perspectives on what this means and if it has a positive or negative connotation. My first experience with the concept earlier this semester made it seem like your boss is not doing their job to the fullest extent and therefore, you need to push them along to make things happen as they should. Now I feel that it has different meanings and you should be more clear when talking about it so others understand which perspective you are coming from.
This training puts a positive spin on it, similiar to how in class we spoke how it can be a tool toward promotion.
By attending this workshop, you will:
• Learn how to communicate more effectively with your manager and other organizational leaders
• Better understand how your organizational position impacts your perspective
• Gain an enhanced understanding of multiple organizational perspectives
• Learn how to communicate more effectively with your manager and other organizational leaders
• Better understand how your organizational position impacts your perspective
• Gain an enhanced understanding of multiple organizational perspectives
So, in case you are interested in learning more and want to see it more positively, you can attend this workshop! If you enter this discount code (SC30NOV), you get 30% off the normal cost to participate.
-Monica
The concept does seem to carry negative connotations, doesn't it? AFter all, aren't superiors supposed to be managers, not managed?
ReplyDeleteOn the other hand, the goals of this workshop--read in conjunction with the communication and motivation readings of the last week--remind me greatly of a couple of positions in which I needed to learn how to manage my supervisor's expectations for my own professional development. And as a teacher in a large high school, sometimes I think the numbers are against any kind of expectation I can reasonably carry for being managed well--there are simply too many people around for any one of them to be the object of good management.
So, how can I effectively communicate with my manager? (and how much worse when the boss isn't doing a good job?)
Lastly, have we created bureaucracies that are simply too large for effective management, either up or down, particularly for and by those individuals who are not naturally entrepreneurial enough to manage their own expectations from whatever position they hold?