Focus:
Workplace Skills
Managing Up: There are many benefits for your job satisfaction and career when you can maintain an effective and productive working relationship with your supervisor. It’s in your best interest, and it’s your shared responsibility, to make the relationship work – even if there are challenges. Utilizing certain skills to “manage up” will help you navigate work dynamics to help you, and your supervisor, work more productively together.
- Learn why managing up is so important.
- Add valuable tips you can use right away to manage up effectively.
- Apply a range of approaches to manage up: build more trust using these strategies and learn when to employ tools.
- Learn more at UMass: Improve your skills through campus workshops from WLD and The Partnership for Worker Education. Seek guidance from key offices: WLD, The Partnership for Worker Education, Ombuds Office, HR Business Partners & Labor Relations, Employee Counseling and Consultation Office.
- Dive deeper with LinkedIn Learning: Login and access this collection Managing Up courses and videos.