Manage your career by managing up

- [Narrator] This is an audio course. No need to watch. Just listen. Welcome to the latest edition to LinkedIn Learning, podcasts. We've curated some of the best business podcasts and made them even easier to listen to. Each episode is split into sections. Use the links in the contents area to skip to whichever section you like. We're always looking for new ways to help you learn, and we'd appreciate your feedback. Thanks for listening. - [Host] You've got this book, "Managing Up," an important topic. - Yes. - [Host] What is it all about? Why is it important now? - [Author] So I think it's very important now for a couple reasons. Well, first of all, it's important because "Managing Up" is an essential skill for your career, right? You have one career and it's up to you to manage it. And part of what's going to help your career is your boss, like your boss actually matters. Your boss has a lot of influence over your career trajectory, a lot of influence over the kind of opportunities that come your way. So it's really incumbent on you to really develop that relationship, right? And it's about what you can do. And the other reason I think it's important now is I think we've gone really far to the employee engagement side, which is a great thing. I'm all about that, and I think that we have lost or some of us have lost sort of the understanding that we have to bring our best selves to work as well and that we can't really wait or expect our leaders and our managers and our organizations to do everything for us. We're partners in that. And so "Managing Up" I think is important, especially as the demographics of the workplace change to remind people that, "Hey, it's not all on the organization to do everything for you. You have to bring some stuff as well."