Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• BJ Caldwell
• John Davis
• Barry Madison
• Moderator
• Joan Early
• Friday, August 6, 2004

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• What are we going to talk about?
• Our relationships with our managers,
• what we want,
• what we need, and
• The best way to get what we want and need.

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• Scope (Boundaries)
• Stay away from EEO issues
• Stay away from Grievance issues
• Its okay to talk about specific examples, but
  please keep it anonymous.
  

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• Objective
• To list and explore some basic tools that allow
  subordinates to maintain mutually beneficial
  relationships with their managers.
  
• Relationships
• What makes a relationship?

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• What Types of Relationships Exist?
• Parasitic?
• Synergistic?
• Adversarial?
• Business?
• Mutually Beneficial?

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• Exercise
• Name your relationships, beginning with your 1st
  one?
  
• Infant Parent
• Child Parent
• Sibling Relationship
• First Friendship
• Companion Relationship
• Business Relationships
• Manager - Subordinate

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• Exercise, Cont
• Explore the common elements
• My Needs
• Their Needs
• My Responsibility
• Their Responsibility
• My Desires
• Their Desires

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• How do we achieve what we need and desire from
  our relationship with our manager?
  
• Begin the relationship on the right foot.
• Have scheduled regular meetings with your
  manager.
  
• Understand Your Boss.
• Communicate Effectively.

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• 1. Begin the Relationship on the Right Foot.
• Be Respectful
• Turn in Quality Work
• Keep Appointments Meet Deadlines
• Help a co-worker or Manager
• Maintain a Positive Attitude

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• 2. Schedule Regular Meetings with Your Manager.
• Discuss Long and Short Term Goals
• Be Time Sensitive When Meeting with Your Manager
• Make Meetings with Your Manager Meaningful.
• Make Sure You and Your Manager are on the Same
  Track.
  

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• 3. Understand Your Boss
• Understand that your Manager has other
  priorities, more urgent than your issue.
  
• Understand the direction the manager wants the
  group to go, as well as the direction of the
  Service.
  
• Offer assistance to the manager when the manager
  has several approaching deadlines.
  
• Try to resolve your problems on your own before
  coming to the manager. (That includes doing
  research on your own.)
  
• Know your managers pet peeves.

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Managers Rap Session Managing Your Manager

• 4. Communicate Effectively
• Figure the Best Way to Communicate With Your
  Manager (face-to-face, e-mail, voice mail?).
  
• Stick to the issue of concern when meeting with
  your manager. Try not to digress.
  
• Offer solutions or recommendations regarding the
  issue(s) you are discussing with the manager.
  
• If a problem arises, discuss it with a manager or
  someone who can actually do something about it.