It takes time and effort to cultivate any high quality relationship, and the relationship with your boss is no exception. What is unique about the boss-employee relationship is that it can be a beacon for productivity, job satisfaction, and exceeding business objectives, or it can be a burden, which leads to stress, a drop in morale, and a loss of engagement and progress in one’s career. Successful companies are built on effective relationships both up and down the reporting chain. Conversely, businesses with the greatest chances for success have sometimes faltered simply because they failed to recognize the need to "manage up" the hierarchy.
#MANAGING UP tweet, by organizational experts Tony Deblauwe and Patrick Reilly, is a concise and easy guidebook that helps you successfully navigate the right way to manage your boss to the mutual benefit of both parties and the organization. Each section provides thought provoking and actionable statements that will help you learn how to effectively collaborate with your manager and drive a better connection that positively impacts how each party views job roles, expectations, priorities, and performance. Their concise, direct-to-action tips give you:
- An overview of the boss-employee relationship
- How to enter into productive collaboration and negotiation
- Ways to balance skillful interaction with on-time deliverables
- Innovative ideas for improving your job satisfaction
Even if you and your boss currently have a great relationship, this book shows you how to increase the level of support, success, and satisfaction you receive in your daily work-life. #MANAGING UP tweet cuts to the chase with bite-sized “bytes” of wisdom that reveal how you can build effective communication and rapport upwards that will reverberate throughout your team.
Author Interview Questions for author Tony Deblauwe
#Managing Up tweet: 140 Tips to Building an Effective Relationship with Your Boss
1. How did you choose the genre you write in?
I’ve been working in corporate life my entire career dealing with human resources, employee relations, leadership, etc. So it’s a natural extension for me to write about subjects related to what I have experience with – especially the topic of employees and bosses. For this book, I wanted to create something that gave people useful information very quickly. When the publisher approached me with the concept of a Twitter style book on the subject of managing up, it made a lot of sense to me. I enjoy Twitter and so the format was perfect and because I work in Silicon Valley–it’s a great style fit for folks here.
2. What would you like your readers to know about this book in general?
That no matter how you characterize the relationship with your boss – it’s not a one-way street. Both you and your boss have to figure out what the right ways of working together are in order to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes. I’m not saying it’s easy but Patrick (my co-writer) and I believe the tweets help remind you of the important concepts that will lead to a more healthy and satisfying communication exchange.
3. Is there a message in your book that you want readers to grasp?
The main thing I want people to think about as they read each of the tweets is to visualize how the statement translates into effective communication. When you want to partner with your boss the right way you also have to look at your own behavior, how you come across, etc. Even if your boss is “bad” you still have an obligation to keep yourself grounded and in check. Collaboration, trust, and respect don’t happen overnight so looking at the whole picture of what a good working relationship looks like is the key takeaway.
4. What was the hardest part about writing your book?
The hardest piece was to take complex theories and practices and condense that into no more than 140 characters per tip. I thought this writing project was going to take a couple of weeks to write because I was confident there was enough info to create 140 tips. As the writing went on it became harder and harder to develop sentences that I felt represented the right stage of development in the boss-employee dynamic (and were 140 characters or less).
5. When you rip out a page from a spiral notebook, do you leave the tabby pieces or do you pull them out?
I’m definitely a clean up the edge kind of guy. Tattered edges only tend to bunch of papers and cling to everything – very annoying!
About the Authors
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#MANAGING UP tweet is part of the THiNKaha series whose slim and handy books contain 140 well-thought-out quotes (tweets/ahas).
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