Managing Your Line Manager

Professionally, we all report to someone. Whether it’s a client, customer, shareholder or boss. 

So what's the best practice for managing a line manager, to ensure you both get what you want and need? 

How to Induct

Demonstrate your collaboration skills and experience

Establish you will say the right kind of no, when it’s appropriate

Understand your manager’s goals and objectives

Extrovert or Introvert? Sensing or Intuitive? Feeling or Thinking? Planful or Spontaneous?

How to Brief

Constantly feed useful and informative information

Stay calm in a storm

Present evidence-based options, to reduce risk in decision making

Understand your manager’s preferred working style

How to Report

Always present opportunities not problems (partially solve or present options in advance)

Solve the tiny problems and save the big stuff for your manager

Proactively seek 360 degree feedback

Become a go-to specialist

How to Negotiate 

Stay task-focused 

Work with ROI and achievement of objectives

Set and retain healthy boundaries

Appreciate your manager’s blind spots

How to Influence

Admit and be vulnerable

Prioritise what you’ve been asked to do and share/negotiate re-prioritisation

Use we more than I

Consistent, evidence-based, binary decision-making

Focusing on Best Mutual Outcomes

ALWAYS have your manager’s back

Help your manager look great to their peers

Build on strengths, infill weaknesses

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