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How to Be Awesome at Your Job

275: How to Manage Your Manager with Mary Abbajay

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

How to be Awesome at Your Job

Sharpening, Self-improvement, Meaning, Winning, Development, Money, Interview, Writing, Health & Fitness, Speaking, Mental Health, Success, Wins, Fun, Skills, Business, Careers, Training, Education, Collaboration, Decisions, Career, Selfhelp, Mockaitis, Thinking

4.51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Mary Abbajay shares how to manage up, understand who your boss is, and adapt to different personality types.


You’ll Learn:

1) One tiny, yet powerful, thing you can do to differentiate yourself from 99% of employees

2) Obstacles to managing up

3) Strategies for dealing with difficult bosses


About Mary

Mary Abbajay is the president and co-founder of Careerstone Group, LLC, a woman-owned, full service organizational and leadership development consultancy that delivers leading-edge talent and organizational development solutions to the public and private sectors. She currently serves on the regional Market President’s Board of BB&T Bank. She was Chairman of the Board for Leadership Greater Washington where she led the adult Signature program, the Youth Leadership Program and the Rising Leaders Program.

 

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0:00.0

Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work.

0:10.0

Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money.

0:14.0

With your host, Pete McKitis.

0:16.2

Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 275 with Mary Abiget.

0:26.0

Mary is talking about how you manage your manager, that delicate dance of managing up

0:32.0

how it's done with tact and a plumb and savvy.

0:36.8

So you'll learn one, a tiny yet powerful thing you can do to differentiate yourself from 99% of employees.

0:44.6

Two, key obstacles to managing up,

0:47.2

and three, strategies for dealing with difficult bosses.

0:50.7

So if you'd like to check out the show notes

0:52.2

or the transcript or the links to

0:53.3

items that we've referenced it's over at awesome at your job dot com slash

0:57.0

up 275 and while you're at awesome at your job dot com I encourage you to check out

1:01.3

some of our cool stuff one handy resource I'd point you to check out some of our cool stuff.

1:02.8

One handy resource I'd point you to is the Gold Nugget email list summary.

1:06.8

So if you'd like to take notes when you're listening to the show,

1:10.5

but your hands are indisposed, we take those notes for you and email them to you each

1:16.3

time a new guest episode is released so you have that text note format for your easy reference and review over at awesome at your job.

1:25.0

Now here's Mary's story Mary Averjay is the president and co-founder of

1:29.2

Careerstone Group LLC a woman-owned full-service organizational and leadership development

1:34.4

consultancy that delivers leading-edge talents and organizational development solutions

1:38.9

to the public and private sectors.

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