How to manage up as an engineer or a manager

Focusing on this can 📈 drastically improve your work experience!

Intro

Being able to successfully manage up is one of these things that doesn’t seem to be too important at first glance, but let me tell you, it can make your day-to-day work so much better, more productive and also easier.

And not just for you, it can make the experience a lot better for the whole team or department! Let’s define what managing up even is and what isn’t!

What managing up is and what isn’t

Managing up can be misinterpreted in various of different ways. Let’s make it clear what it is and what isn’t.

What managing up is:

✅ Efficiently communicating and collaborating with your manager.

✅ Proactively finding out the problems that your manager is facing and putting in the effort in trying to resolve them.

✅ Being transparent, giving feedback and asking for help when you need it.

What managing up isn’t:

❌ Trying to change your manager.

❌ Going above your manager to try to achieve your goals.

❌ Keeping all of your problems to yourself to not put pressure on your manager.

Successfully mana…