Bonnie is back for a question and answer episode on this month's show, Managing Up, How To Help Teams Work Better, and The Way To Do More Reading.

This is Coaching For Leaders Episode 515.

Produced by Innovate Learning, Maximizing Human Potential.

Greetings to you from Orange County, California. This is Coaching For Leaders, and I'm your host, Dave Stahovjak.

Leaders aren't born, they're made, and this weekly show helps you discover leadership wisdom through insightful conversations.

Once a month, we open up the episode to questions from you and observations on things we're seeing and learning right now.

If you'd like to be considered for a question on a future question and answer episode, go over to CoachingFor Leaders.

.com slash feedback, that is the very best way to get something to us for consideration, and I am joined this month as I am almost always for our question and answer shows by Bonnie Stahovjak.

Hello Bonnie.

Hello Dave, nice to be back.

I am glad to have you back, it has been a couple of months since we actually did a question and answer episode, time flies, we had so many other interviews and both of us have an crazy busy schedules.

But we're back for a few thoughts from our listening audience, and I thought we'd do something a little different this time, Bonnie.

Normally we just respond to questions that have come in, we're going to do a little bit of that today, but one of the other pieces I wanted to bring in is some observations and trends.

And I find myself in this really privileged, wonderful place of getting to observe some of the trends that are going on out there in the lives of leaders and because of our academy cohorts and getting to facilitate and work with so many wonderful leaders on a regular basis.

I get to see perspectives from leaders all over the globe and in all kinds of different industries, and I often bring those perspectives into conversations with people one on one.

And of course our academy sessions are confidential on the individual things we discuss, but I do find that I'm referencing trends I'm seeing a lot and things do tend to come in patterns.

And so I thought it might be fun to share some observations that I've seen and for us to talk a little bit about some of the things that are going on right now.

And there's two observations that I've had that are coming up as themes with leaders right now in the workplace.

And one of the themes that has been coming up a lot in conversations with academy members and clients is the theme of managing up.

How do I manage up ideally to get my boss or whoever else in the organization to maybe change their behavior a bit or consider doing something differently.

And I was talking, Bonnie, with Tom Henschel actually recently about this and Tom made the observation, which I thought was really brilliant, that you would think that with everyone working remote right now, that managing up might become a little bit less of an issue.

That managers wouldn't be as much in people's daily interactions and that that if anything, this would maybe be a little bit less of a problem as it is normally.

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