“I want you to tell me when I am wrong even if it costs you your job.”
The above quote from Samuel Goldwyn (of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer fame) to a direct report, sums up the dilemma faced by many senior managers, who find themselves reporting to strong, charismatic leaders, many of whom are often the founders of their companies. This “damned if I do, damned if I don't” dilemma is a perennial one and adversely affects the performance of those managers who find themselves in this position. They find themselves asking the question, ‘is there a way to negotiate this dilemma, can you lead when you are a follower, and if so how?’.
In Managing Up!, we take the stance that not only is it possible, but it is necessary, to develop the skill set to effectively ‘manage’ your manager and to learn how to, as one author puts it, ‘lead without authority’. We will not be attempting to be clones of Machiavelli, but we will be learning fundamental strategies and acquiring the mindset required to
- create a working relationship based on partnership:
- créer un environnement où une rétroaction significative est à la fois donnée et reçue,
- fully inhabit the role we were hired to do – within the requisite degrees of freedom and
- soutenir pleinement nos managers de manière à leur permettre d'opérer au bon niveau et d'être confiants pour vraiment déléguer des tâches et des responsabilités essentielles.
Agenda for the Day
Pour faciliter cela, la session présentera et explorera des concepts et des outils tels que :
- Le syndrome du leader héroïque et ses effets
- Les six styles de leadership
- L'échelle de responsabilité et les degrés de liberté
- Building organisational capital
The session will be fun and interactive, featuring plenty of exercises with a focus on building confidence to use the tools back in the workplace to get immediate results.
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