E. RELATIONSHIPS. How to Manage Your Manager with Mary Abbajay
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 21 April 2016
⏱️ 40 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.
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— 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.
• Mary on Twitter: @maryabbajay
• Website: Careerstone Group
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings and welcome back to the how to be awesome at your job introductory episode |
| 0:03.2 | sampler six pack. This is where I'm sharing a favorite example of each of the key topic |
| 0:07.4 | categories that we cover here on how to be awesome at your job and so this is the fifth |
| 0:11.7 | where I'll share a taste of how we might go about |
| 0:13.6 | covering relationships. This is stuff like having difficult conversations, |
| 0:18.6 | grow on your influence with folks, management, leadership, and culture and networking. |
| 0:23.2 | To demonstrate this one, we got Mary Abiget, |
| 0:25.6 | and she is going to share how to manage up |
| 0:27.4 | to how to go about managing your manager. |
| 0:30.0 | Let's hit it. |
| 0:31.6 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals |
| 0:36.6 | share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:40.9 | Enjoy more career fund, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete McChitis. |
| 0:47.0 | Hello and thanks so much for joining us here for episode 275 with Mary Abiget. |
| 0:57.0 | Mary is talking about how you manage your manager, that delicate dance of managing up, how it's done with tact and a plumb and savvy, |
| 1:07.3 | so you'll learn one, a tiny yet powerful thing you can do |
| 1:11.3 | to differentiate yourself from 99% of employees. |
| 1:15.0 | Two, key obstacles to managing up and three strategies for dealing with difficult bosses. |
| 1:21.0 | So if you'd like to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to |
| 1:24.0 | items that we've referenced it's over at awesome at your job.com slash |
| 1:28.0 | up 275 and while you're at awesome at your job dot com I encourage you to check out |
| 1:32.0 | some of our cool stuff one handy resource I I encourage you to check out some of our cool stuff. |
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