Managing Upwards
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Understand their priorities and style, agree how you’ll work together, bring options not just problems, flag risks early, and disagree respectfully.
- Assign to
- Everyone with a manager
- Duration
- 20 minutes
- Evidence
- 11-question quiz
- Your version
- Editable
What they will be able to do
- Understand your manager’s priorities, pressures and style.
- Agree how and when you communicate.
- Bring options and a recommendation, not just problems.
- Flag risks early and disagree respectfully.
The course
- 01Understanding your manager
- 02Agreeing how you work
- 03Making decisions easy
- 04Disagreeing well
The decision they practise
In the main activity, “Find the four problems”, learners spot the red flags in a realistic document and see the effect of each choice. Short animations show “Making it easy to decide” and “Two grant bids”.
How you know they finished
The 11-question quiz mixes multiple choice, matching and sequencing questions and returns to the opening story.
Relevant legislation and guidance
The course draws on these. Which ones apply depends on the organisation and the role. Finishing the course is a training record.
- Equality Act 2010
- Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999
How this course is built
Interactive activity
Learners practise the decision in the course, including what to say when someone pushes back.
Edit it in the builder
On Growth and above, adapt the scenarios and wording to your own workplace, policies and reporting procedures.
A record they finished
The 11-question quiz closes the course, so you can show who completed it.
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