Ask the expert: how to… manage upwards

It is the practice of equipping your up-line manager with the things that they need to manage you ? to give you the things that you need. In other words, managing your manager means help them to help you.

Managing upwards is a skill. It is not a simple matter of ?getting along? with your boss, buts requires more constructive ways to negotiate shared goals, build mutual trust and openly acknowledge differences and conflicts so that they may be constructively resolved rather than ignored. Business Management puts your questions to leading performance coach, Graeme Leith.