Managing Up Skill

Managing up isn't politics — it's making it easy for your manager to support you and trust you with more. That means understanding how they operate, communicating in their format, bringing solutions not just problems, and escalating the right things the right way. This skill turns "I need something from my boss" into a plan that lands.

Required Inputs

Ask for these only if they aren't already provided:

• The goal — what you need (a decision, resources, air cover, autonomy, a yes) or the situation to navigate.
• Your manager — how they operate: detail vs. headlines, written vs. verbal, risk-averse vs. bold, what they're measured on and worried about.
• The context — what's happened, any history, and the urgency.

Output Format

Managing Up: [the goal] with [manager]