Leading Up & Managing Your Manager

A self-insight profile on leading up and managing the relationship with your manager — influencing upward by understanding their world, keeping them ahead of problems, owning your own part in the dynamic, and negotiating workload and priorities openly. Items are realistic managing-up situations where the instinctive move (push back publicly, absorb silently, or wait) backfires. Scoring is keyed to the evidence: upward influence framed in the manager's goals, the no-surprises relationship, owning the part you control in a strained relationship, and making trade-offs visible when negotiating workload. Behavioural-tendency framing and reverse-keyed items reduce faking. Administration time: 14-20 minutes.