Your cart is empty.
Keep shoppingEngage your manager - Accelerate your career
1,429 students
Engage your manager - Accelerate your career
Managing-up : 3 Practical Rules to Build a Stronger Relationship with Your Manager
Created byViraj Almeida
Last updated 3/2025
English
English [Auto],
What you'll learn
- Develop a rewarding relationship with your manager
- Understand your manager's style and minimize unnecessary friction
- Communicate with your manager in a way that makes you reliable and dependable
- Discover ways to get your manager involved in your career growth
- Problem solving approach that will help you grow with your manager
Explore related topics
Course content
6 sections • 17 lectures • 49m total length
Requirements
- During the course: Be open-minded - pls keep aside any prejudice you may have about your manger. Don't forget the big picture - you are doing this for your career.
- A strong desire to learn and ability to reflect & introspect.
- After the course, be courageous; put to use at least two of the many practices taught in the course.
Description
Why This Course Matters?
“People don’t quit jobs — they quit managers.”
One of the most overlooked drivers of career growth is the quality of your relationship with your manager.
Yet, very few professionals receive formal guidance on how to manage this critical relationship intentionally and strategically.
This course fills that gap.
What You Will Learn?
In under one hour, you will learn how to:
Build trust and alignment with your manager
Reduce friction and misunderstandings
Position yourself as dependable and growth-oriented
Create a practical managing-up action plan tailored to your manager
The course is structured around three clear, practical rules that you can apply immediately.
Who This Course Is For?
This course is best suited for early to mid-career professionals who want to strengthen their relationship with their manager and accelerate their career growth.
Professionals seeking stronger visibility and trust with their manager
Employees navigating a cold or distant manager relationship
High-potential talent seeking stronger visibility and support
Individual contributors preparing for larger responsibilities
Anyone who wants to turn a good manager relationship into a great one
(Note: This course is not designed to address extreme or abusive leadership situations.)
About the Instructor
With more than 20 years of corporate experience, I have worked with diverse leaders and managed multiple teams.
Like many professionals, I faced challenges in managing upward. Through reflection, observation, and application of structured best practices, I transformed difficult reporting relationships into productive ones.
This course combines personal insight with proven professional principles.
Course Structure
5 structured sections
17 concise lectures
Real examples and case studies
Practical exercises to build your action plan
3 quizzes to reinforce learning
Designed to be completed in under 60 minutes - in one focused sitting — high impact, low time commitment.
Updated & Continuously Improved
Originally launched in 2020.
Fully re-recorded and updated in November 2024.
Content improvements are driven by learner feedback and real-world questions.
Learner Feedback
“Exceptional course — a must take for all professionals.”
“The practical rules are easy to remember and well articulated.”
Final Thought
Your manager relationship can either limit your growth or accelerate it.
This course helps you take control of that variable.
I look forward to supporting your progress.
— Viraj Almeida
Who this course is for:
- This course is best suited for early to mid-career professionals who want to strengthen their relationship with their manager and accelerate their career growth.