What is Managing Up?
Managing up means managing the relationship with your manager so that both of you can achieve your goals, as well as the organization’s.

Examples of what it takes to effectively manage up.  

• Being proactive, demonstrating initiative
• Understanding your manager’s style, working preferences and needs
• Keeping your manager apprised of progress in executing tasks, projects

Plus two requisites to succeed:

• Credibility through demonstrated competence
• Mutually agreed to expectations between manager and direct report

How PSG can help you:

• We conduct training programs in managing up, with focus on group discussions, case studies, small group breakouts and role plays
• We coach managers on how to manage up.

Our coaching and training materials are built on research conducted with clients, together with volumes of feedback from employee engagement surveys, 360s, management training and coaching executives.

• We focus senior managers and HR professionals on:
• Recognizing and encouraging managing up by direct reports
• Creating a favorable climate for managing up
• We focus individual contributors on the skills and techniques for managing up, including use of emotional intelligence.

Contact Performance-Solutions-Group, Inc.
If you need assistance in reviewing your compensation program, please contact us at
(203) 987-3338; info@performance-solutions-group.com