#473 Why Understanding Your Manager Matters For Career Growth

Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we take a different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions to help all of us navigate our squiggly careers with that bit more confidence, clarity, and control. And as well as the episode that you're gonna hear us talk about today, we've got lots of extra support for you in your squiggly career. And we've pulled it all into a brand new newsletter called Squiggly Careers in Action. So you'll get the pod sheet that goes this episode, that's got the tools we'll talk through, some coaching questions. We've also added some extra things in, so you've got Sarah's borrowed brilliance. This is Sarah sharing some Insights and ideas she's got from different things that she's reading, watching, and listening to. You've got Helen's How To, which is a video of me experimenting with a tool that we think could be useful for you in your career. Sometimes it will be, sometimes it won't be. We'll see how it goes. And then we've also got Squiggly Careers behind the scenes, which is an ad hoc feature based on whether we think there's something that you might be.

interested in. But if you're a Squiggly Career supporter, we thought you might like to know a bit more of what we're up to. So today we're talking about why understanding your manager will help you to do better in your job. And in some ways, I think as Helen and I were exploring some ideas for today's episode, we were like it starts to feel a bit borderline, manipulative and Machiavellian. But we promise it's not. It's really just about sort of walking in your manager's shoes. And then kind of figuring out like what does that mean for you? Being smarter

And hopefully to make your life that little bit easier. I feel like an alternative title could have been How to Take Control of Your Manager so they don't take control of you. That probably would have been more clickable. That's probably probably what we should be doing. Oh, never mind. But we know managers matter, so I think you always really remember the best manager you've had. And you also remember the worst ones that you've had. You know, where you feel like It's really not clicking. There's not the chemistry.

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