Managing Up

In episode #3 of the CryRoom,  Ella Irwin and guest Ethan Evans discuss the practice of managing up and how it impacts your career. Regardless of where you are in your career, you may suddenly be reporting for someone new, who has a different style than you are used to and you will need to quickly figure out how best to work with this person.  You need to create a great partnership with your manager and this episode will give you actionable guidance on how to do this.  This episode covers all of the following:

1. What is managing up and why is it important?
2. Ways to determine your manager’s style. 
3. What questions to ask your manager to better understand their needs.
4. Managing up vs setting boundaries.
5. How to manage up when you make a big mistake and impact your manager/ team/ company and rebuild trust.
6. What happens if your manager leaves? Was it all for nothing?

Ethan Evans is a former VP at Amazon with over 12 years of startup leadership experience.  While at Amazon he helped start Prime Video, built the Appstore for Kindle tablets and Alexa, started Prime Gaming.   He is now coaching managers and executives and has developed valuable training content to help people succeed in their careers.  To see more content from Ethan, please visit: https://levelupwithethanevans.substack.com

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