2025 GREATS: 1038: Getting What You Need from Your Boss through Managing Up with Melody Wilding

We're continuing our march to 2026 with some of the finest episodes of 2025 now with Melody Wilding's pro tips on getting what you need from your boss through managing up. Melody shares an approach that is so simple and so powerful and yet so overlooked. I hope you love it. I highly recommend recommend that you start all of your one-on-ones with your manager with wins, not just dive into status updates of, oh, here's where this project is, here's where this is, this is what's coming up.

Utilize that time to show your manager, here's the outcome, the result. Here's also visibility into how I thought about solving a problem, the considerations that I made or the people I talked to. And all of that gives them more insight into you operating at a more strategic, perhaps even higher level. And it also gives them information that they need to run up their own chain of command. That's Melody Wilding.

She's an award-winning executive coach with a background as a therapist and emotions researcher. She's also the author of Managing Up, how to get what you need from the people in charge. So you'll learn one, how to differentiate yourself with one conversation, two, how to build your pushback power, and three, the easiest way to improve your visibility. And if you want a quick summary write-up of these actionable takeaways, I recommend you sign up for the free gold nugget email newsletter founder awesomeatyourjob.com. I'm Pete McKaitis.

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