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“Managing Up” in Difficult Situations by Bill English - SPTechCon
Managing yourself well is key to managing up successfully. This involves having strong core values, integrity, and boundaries. Having integrity means acting courageously according to reality. Focus on being competent in your work, building alliances, and having strong character. Maintain boundaries by controlling what you can - yourself - and setting limits. Communicate clearly with your manager and embrace problems, working to resolve them while building support from others. Your values and purpose should guide you, not just your current job.
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- 1. Managing Up Ideas on How to Make Your SharePoint Deployment Successful In Spite of Your Manager
- 2. Core Idea MANAGING UPIS MORE ABOUT MANAGING YOURSELF THAN ANYTHING ELSE
- 3. To Manage Yourself….. •…Must have: – Core Values – Integrity – Boundaries
- 4. Core Values • Thisis demonstrated: – In how you spend your time – In those parts of you that are not negotiable • Forms the foundation for your life values, behaviors and traditions
- 5. To Manage Yourself….. •…Must have: – Core Values – Integrity – Boundaries
- 6. INTEGRITY = INTEGRATED Integrity is the courage to meet the demands of reality
- 7. Who a personis will ultimately determine their success in life – more than their brains, talents and competencies
- 8. Three Essentials • Competent– must be good at something • Alliance Builder – build alliances or coalitions with others who are better than you at skills you need to reach win/win relationships • Character – must have the character not to screw it up
- 9. Ask Yourself Considering my brains, talents and competencies, am I reaching my full potential or is something holding me back from being all that I could be?
- 10. Character • Much morethan NOT lying, cheating or stealing • Courage, character and competencies to meet the demands of reality – Integrated personality and life
- 11. If we lackintegrity… • …then we’re unable to meet the demands of reality • No matter how talented, smart, educated or affluent we are, our ability to capitalize on our brains, talents and competencies will be significantly, negatively affected by our lack of integrity
- 12. Six areas offocus • The ability to connect authentically • The ability to be oriented toward the truth • The ability to work in a way that gets results and finishes well • The ability to embrace, engage and deal with the negative • The ability to be oriented toward growth • The ability to be transcendent
- 13. Six areas offocus Six Personal Traits As Seen in Business • Connect authentically • Leads to trust • Oriented toward truth • Operate in reality • Get results & finish well • Accomplish the mission • Embrace the negative • End, resolve or transform problems • Oriented toward growth • Increase skills & persona • Transcendence • Work within a larger purpose
- 14. The “Wake”: whatwe leave behind The wake doesn’t lie and doesn’t care about excuses Tasks Relationships • What did s/he • How did s/he treat other accomplish? people?
- 15. The “Gap” • Differencebetween our present level of functioning in each of the six areas and the ideal • We’ll never achieve perfection, but we can improve throughout life
- 16. Dysfunction: exertion ofeffort in a gap that causes a greater gap – a greater problem exists after than before Dysfunction ≠ Mistakes
- 17. To Manage Yourself….. •…Must have: – Core Values – Integrity – Boundaries
- 18. Boundaries Start withControlling What You Can Control - Yourself
- 19. What is aboundary? • Boundaries define ownership • Ownership leads to control • Freedom to make choices • Ability to set limits • Right to protect what you own • With all this comes responsibility, accountability and consequences
- 20. What Boundaries DoFor Us • Differentiation and Separateness • Containment • Definition of self • Set limits on ourselves and others • Build core values
- 21. Results: • Live by the law of sowing and reaping • Live by the law of responsibility to vs. for • Live by the law of respect • Live by the law of motivation • Live by the law of hurt vs. harm
- 22. But My Bossis a Jerk! • Rude • Demeaning • Demanding • ADD • Apathetic • Unavailable • Weird • Sick • Immature
- 23. How to ManageUp • Put the problem where it should be • Take responsibility for your own actions • Communicate clearly, honestly, firmly & calmly • Embrace the negative & either end, resolve or transform the problem • Build alliances to get the project done – but inform your boss of your activities
- 24. Other thoughts • Don’tviolate your values for a job • Demand respect and give it – even if they don’t deserve it • Work on increasing the number of things you can do as your grow older • Have a transcendent purpose that is outside of work • Take the emotion out of business