7 Strategies To Manage Your Relationship With Your Manager

No relationship in the workplace is more powerful than the one between you and your manager. A great manager can be the primary reason you stay at a company. Conversely, Gallup research found that nearly one in two people have quit their job just to get away from their manager. The importance of this dynamic leads many clients to seek strategies to create or elevate their relationship with their manager to advance their career. Although it was written more than a decade ago, Managing Up: 59 Ways to Build a Career-Advancing Relationship with Your Boss remains very relevant today. The message is valuable: Building your relationship with your manager starts with doing good work, keeping your word, understanding your manager’s preferences and being supportive.

Read our Founder Kathy Shanley’s seven strategies to build your relationship with your manager.