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Preconference Workshop
Session #707: Managing Up: How to be on Top of Your Game When You’re Leading the Boss
S105D
Saturday 06/15/2013 01:00 PM - 05:00 PM   Add to calendar
4.00 HR Credit | Competencies: Communication, Relationship Management | Intended Audience: Senior-Level
Workplace Application:
You will gain techniques to lead and manage your boss' performance safely and effectively. 

A Watson Wyatt survey indicates that 51% of employees lack trust and confidence in their leaders; 45% indicated that their senior leaders behave inconsistently with the organization's core values; and 42% believed senior leaders make changes that have made them less competitive. And here you sit right between senior leaders and the team members that don't want to follow them. In this kind of a tough situation, you need to figure out how to drive the organization when you're not really the one who's supposed to be doing the steering. Believe it or not, you can find the answers to this problem by watching the movie 'Driving Miss Daisy' or you can come to this session. You will learn:
• The 4 C's of leading your boss;
• How to communicate to persuade;
• How to softly push back How to challenge ideas without challenging the 'idea presenter'; and
• How to avoid upstaging the boss even if the boss got there because of his or her good looks and not because of skills and vision, you can still make it work!

Arthur D. Jackson Photo
Presenter:
Arthur D. Jackson, President and Chief Consultant,
ENPM, Inc.