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If your boss is making your life hard, you've probably heard the advice to "manage up." Should everyone be spending more time cultivating their managing up skills? Or should managers just be spending more time figuring out what’s actually going on in their department? Alaina Fuld, Sr. Manager for Communications & Community Impact at Brooks Running (and one of AHP's BFFs), joins host Anne Helen Petersen for tips on work with your boss to get what you need.

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You career is your responsibility. Managing up and have a strong relationship with your manager is critical to your career success. Managing up gives you the reigns on how you want to manager your career.
Join me as we discuss
- What is Managing Up
- Why Managing Up is important
- How you can manage up effectively while staying aligned to your values

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So many of us think it’s our boss’s job to manage us. I’d offer your success lies in managing them and learning this skill is crucial to your professional success. 

In this episode we’ll discuss: 

• Why managing up is a pivotal career move
• How to improve the way you manage your boss 
• How to partner with your boss and her boss
• Tips for navigating your own mind drama when managing your boss

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Jill Griffin is committed to making workplaces more successful for everyone through leadership training and development, team dynamics workshops, and employee well-being programs. Her executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and innovative thinking have driven multi-million-dollar revenues for top agencies, startups, and renowned brands. Collaborating with individuals, teams, and organizations, Jill fosters high-performance and inclusive cultures while facilitating organizational growth.

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In this episode of Lead Time Chats, Jean Hsu, VP of Engineering at Range, chats with Nadia De Ala, Founder of Real You Leadership, about managing up in a hybrid work environment.

Nadia and Jean discuss:

• What holds people back from managing up
• Not limiting yourself to managing up - think about managing up, down, and all around
• How to get around the fear or taking up space and advocating for yourself
• Managing up with an absent or even toxic manager
• Asking powerful open-ended questions to build a deeper relationship with your manager and teammates
• How remote work can make managing up easier…or more difficult

This week we're tackling the topic of bad bosses. Join us for a chat about our experiences with a spectrum of bad, how to deal with them and a cheeky game of bad boss bingo. 
 
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So many of us think it’s our boss’s job to manage us. I’d offer your success lies in managing them, and learning this skill is crucial to your professional success. 

In this episode, we’ll discuss: 

• Why managing up is a pivotal career move
• How to improve the way you manage your boss 
• How to partner with your boss and her boss
• Tips for navigating your mind drama when managing your boss

Mentioned on the show: 

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Follow @jillGriffinOffical on Instagram for daily inspiration. 

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on my private and group coaching programs.

Jill Griffin is committed to making workplaces more successful for everyone through leadership training and development, team dynamics workshops, and employee well-being programs. Her executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and innovative thinking have driven multi-million-dollar revenues for top agencies, startups, and renowned brands. Collaborating with individuals, teams, and organizations, Jill fosters high-performance and inclusive cultures while facilitating organizational growth.

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

Follow @jillGriffinOffical on Instagram for daily inspiration
Connect with and follow Jill on LinkedIn

So many of us think it’s our boss’s job to manage us. I’d offer your success lies in managing them and learning this skill is crucial to your professional success. 

In this episode we’ll discuss: 

• Why managing up is a pivotal career move
• How to improve the way you manage your boss 
• How to partner with your boss and her boss
• Tips for navigating your own mind drama when managing your boss

Mentioned on the show: 

Amplify Your Strengths Group Coaching Program

Follow @jillGriffinOfficial on Instagram daily inspiration. 

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for free content and strategies to refresh your career.

Jill Griffin is committed to making workplaces more successful for everyone through leadership training and development, team dynamics workshops, and employee well-being programs. Her executive coaching, workshop facilitation, and innovative thinking have driven multi-million-dollar revenues for top agencies, startups, and renowned brands. Collaborating with individuals, teams, and organizations, Jill fosters high-performance and inclusive cultures while facilitating organizational growth.

Visit JillGriffinCoaching.com for more details on:

• Book a 1:1 Career Strategy and Executive Coaching HERE
• Gallup CliftonStrengths Corporate Workshops to build a strengths-based culture
• Team Dynamics training to increase retention, communication, goal setting, and effective decision-making
• Keynote Speaking
• Grab a personal Resume Refresh with Jill Griffin HERE

Follow @jillGriffinOffical on Instagram for daily inspiration
Connect with and follow Jill on LinkedIn

Finding the right marketing leadership position is difficult (to say the least). You must have alignment with the CEO and executive team from the get-go. And it’s even better when you can follow them from one opportunity to the next.  

Now in her third opportunity with the same CEO, Helen Baptist from PathFactory discusses not only how to find the right leadership role, but also how to manage that change from within that so often required in a turnaround situation.

Whether you’re in the process of finding a new marketing leadership opportunity or putting out fires in your current one, Helen offers the following gems in this episode:

•Positioning yourself correctly for the opportunity
•What to do first in a turnaround situation
•Rooting out toxicity
• Buyer centricity to break down sales and marketing silos

Let me know what you think! Thanks!

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It's a pattern we're seeing out there, and some agency friends experience in their careers when they make the mistake of putting themselves in this situation. CEOs at young companies hire a marketing leader, usually a woman with substantial experience, and expect her to singled-handedly transform the fate of the organization. 

And being the "one woman army" is a really difficult position from which to generate success.

In a meaningful discussion of recent experiences she's had as a marketing leader, Jenn Edwards takes us through the highs and lows of being the sole marketing pro at a young company, questions to ask and her point of view on whether or not it's a good idea to even take such a position.

If you're thinking about a new CMO / head of marketing job and you think you'll be a OWA or OMA, this is probably a great episode to listen to.

Let me know what you think! Thanks!

Resources for SaaS Execs

Recently closed a funding round and need to ramp growth?
Check out our comprehensive "scale-a-saas" guide:

Think your website could generate more leads?
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Want to be a guest on SaaS Backwards?
Click to meet with Ken Lempit to talk about an episode.

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Is your messaging a sales ally or sneaky saboteur? Let us help with our free content audit.

We’ll look at your website’s messaging, content, and conversion potential from the eyes of today’s buyer and deliver a presentation with new combinations to more sales conversations and demos.

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Get started today!

In today’s episode, Emilie chats with Jennifer Chapman, an expert leadership coach who works with STEM managers and leaders, to discuss practical ways to navigate managing up whether you’re dealing with a micromanager, absentee boss, or the boss who’s too busy.

Related Links:

• Learn more about Jennifer Chapman 
• Ep 206 | How to be the Best People Manager with Michelle King 
• Enroll in LEVEL UP, our 6-month leadership accelerator
• Join the Bossed Up Courage Community on Facebook

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Creating a good relationship with your manager is pretty vital if you want to be happy at work, get a bonus, get promoted and progress your career.  In 10 Great Tips to Manage Your Manager I share practical tips I have used to build and maintain good relationships with wide range of managers and indirect “bosses”.

 When thinking about how to manage your boss’ expectations, a great place to start is to ensure you are doing a good job or at least average compared to peers. That way, when managing your boss, they already view you as an asset to the team. Delivering what you need to is a great way to start building relationships at work.

 Every manager is different, so when learning how to manage your boss, ask them how they like to be managed. How you manage up should be tailored to your specific manager.

 As you plan how to manage your manager ask them what they expect of you. If you don’t know what good or okay looks like in their eyes, meeting that expectation is harder. 

 It is in your interests, when managing up, to take responsibility for managing relationships at work and particularly with your manager. Your boss influences so much of your working life therefore it must be a no-brainer to be proactive in creating a positive professional relationship.

 A key part of expectation management at work is to reduce the number of surprises for colleagues and particularly your manager. Surprises, both positive and negative, hinder planning and impact how your manager in turn manages their boss’s expectations. 

 How to manage your manager is well is not as hard as it might seem at first. Think how you would like to be treated and replicate this for your manager. How to manage your boss effectively requires a little planning and effort on your part and taking some or all of the steps outlined in “10 Great Tips to Manage Your Manager” will make a significant positive different to your relationship with you manager. Make the effort – it really is in your best interests if you want to be happier at work, get interesting projects to work on, get a bonus and get promoted. 

 Good luck in practicing how to manage your boss!

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About JM Ryerson - 

JM is an entrepreneur and Mental Performance Coach who has been building companies and leading sales teams for over 20 years. JM is the co-founder and CEO of Let's Go Win whose mission is to increase leadership, enhance culture and help teams achieve peak performance.

JM believes that everything rises and falls on leadership. Based on this belief, he has spent his career focused on enriching the lives of others while continuing to educate himself on best practices in leadership, vulnerability and teamwork. His ability to impart some of this knowledge to you might be his greatest contribution to you and your team's success.

JM’s great passions are helping team members lead a life of fulfillment and become vulnerable and open to what life has in store for them. His ultimate goal is to give others the tools that will allow them to transcend their self-limiting beliefs. There is nothing more inspiring than to watch someone achieve more than they could ever imagine. That is why JM considers it a real privilege to be a part of other people's incredible journeys.

JM was raised in Montana and lives in Granite Bay, California, with his wife, Lisa, and their two amazing boys.

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Can you get too much attention to innovation? In this insightful conversation with Ton Kalker, the CTO at Xperi and an IEEE Fellow we dive into the aspects of predictability, risk taking and trust, and their relationship with radical innovation. We discuss the role of an innovation-focused CTO and also chat about what are the aspects worthwhile considering if you think of doing innovation that matters.

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Struggling to connect with your manager? Unsure how to ask for what you need? For this episode, Girl Geek X brings you our best tips on managing up. Featuring speakers from Amplitude and Homelight. 



Hosted by Angie Chang and Sukrutha Bhadouria and Gretchen DeKnikker.  Produced by Rachel Jones. Event recording by Eric Brown. Music by Diana Chow. Featuring Sandhya Hegde, Sandy Liao, and Vidya Setlur. 

Let's be real: we have all come across a sh*tty leader.

It's not completely hopeless though, in today's podcast, we discuss the realities of dealing with a difficult leader and techniques to identify if these leaders can be coached.

Key Takeaways:

• Don't immediately write them off
• Identify if the person is coach-able
• Know when to navigate around a sh*tty / difficult leader 
• Influence the difficult leader through a peer 
• Go a level above (note: this approach can be risky)

We would love to hear what your experience has been with dealing with a difficult leader. Email us at ChangeNerds@gmail.com

This episode has been edited to censor explicit language.