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Are you set for taking the hop from your current role--technical expert or quality developer or people person--to that of highly effective head who gets observed and rewarded? Lead Your Supervisor will show you how. This invaluable guide can help you cultivate the balanced, cohesive, and passionate management style called "managing up." It's a style that works from the center ranks, where management often includes influencing your manager, your peers, and the ones who report to you--all of whom are favorably affected by your determination and contributions. Handling up, then, is approximately building those characteristics that are most admired and loved, such as integrity, energy, empathy, resilience, and big-picture thinking--classic management traits that propel folks from any organizational rank on an easy track upward. Filled with inspiring stories of individuals who completed great things by using their skills, energy, and influence for the greater good--Eleanor Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Sir Edmund Hillary, Paul Newman, and others--and filled with useful strategies and useful advice, Lead Your Supervisor demonstrates how to: - Think strategically, challenging yourself and your team to be more innovative - Cultivate criticism and genuine reviews as important the different parts of progress and improvement - Discipline your team in the 3Cs (organize, cooperate, and collaborate) of working alongside one another in a mutually beneficial way - Persuade others to hear your ideas, overcoming road blocks and turning influence into management - Problem assumptions without challenging the individual above you, and breakdown often daunting resistance to improve - Show resiliency in the face of adversity, turning setbacks into comebacks - Put people into positions where they can succeed--then stand aside and let them As self-assurance in America's CEOs continues to slide, it's time for middle managers and valued teammates to step into positions of management. This inspiring booklet is filled with insights and approaches for rallying everyone around common goals that bring excellent results for your self, your teammates, and your boss--an all-around win!
