Swimming Upstream - Chapter One - Your Boss's Calendar - Part 1

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Careers, Feedback, Leadership, Business, How-to, Development, Strategy, Management, Skills, Coaching, Advice

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🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Our guidance on Swimming Upstream introduces executive-level insights into our Manager Tools content to help managers become more effective by understanding organizational dynamics beyond their role, ultimately preparing them for greater leadership opportunities.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools.
0:02.3	This is Sarah.
0:03.8	And I'm Mark.
0:04.7	Today's cast Swimming Upstream Chapter 1, Your Boss's Calendar, Part 1 of 2.
0:11.5	The questions this cast answers are, how can I learn what my boss's priorities are?
0:17.5	How can I have a better relationship with my boss?
0:19.9	How can I prepare for more responsibility?
0:22.7	If you want answers to these questions and more, keep listening.
0:28.3	Before we get started, did you all know that we have got a Manager Tools license,
0:32.3	containing all of the tools to help you be a better people leader? If you'd like to learn
0:36.6	more about the manager
0:37.5	tools license, check us out online at manager-dashtools.com. Now, on to the show. Too many professionals
0:45.9	only pay attention to the priorities in their own calendar, and too many managers only pay
0:52.8	attention to their calendars and the calendars of their
0:55.9	directs. But if you want to grow your responsibilities and therefore grow your career,
1:02.0	you've really got to think outside of yourself and your own team. And that starts with
1:07.7	thinking about your boss, your link to the remainder of the organization.
1:13.7	Yeah, part of professional development is swimming upstream, which has gotten even more important
1:21.2	in light of the recent executive speaker series talk I gave about the federalization of power and the hollowing
1:29.2	out of the middle ranks of organizations. And swimming upstream means learning what's happening
1:34.2	both above and outside of your organization as well as the future, what's coming in the future.
1:41.4	Basically, if you're standing in a stream, the water upstream from you eventually
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