Mary Abbajay, author of the award-winning, best-selling Managing Up: How to Move Up, Win at Work, and Succeed with Any Type of Boss, joins WNG for a not-to-be missed event.

Whether we like it or not, our bosses have enormous influence over our ability to succeed, thrive, and advance in our organizations, in our careers and in our own leadership journey. Establishing strong, productive working relationships with those above us is the single most effective way to accelerate career success and mobility in any organization. Whether you are reporting to a supervisor, middle manager, VP, top executive, or a board of directors, managing up is a skill that we all need.

This lively and interactive virtual session provides proven strategies and techniques to increase cooperation and collaboration between those who have different power levels, perspectives, and personalities. Learning to effectively manage up is good for you, good for your boss, and good for your organization.

This live presentation helps attendees:

• Understand the importance of managing up for career mobility and advancement
• Raise awareness around preferred work style and behaviors—of self and others
• Recognize different leadership styles and explore adaptive strategies for communicating and collaborating with each style
• Understand and manage personality differences that impact manager/staff relationships
• Understand their own and their supervisor’s “hot buttons”
• Navigate “difficult” boss types
• Take ownership of one’s own professional success

This event is open to all professionals, but advance registration is required.