Improve your relationships with your boss

Training Theme 

This training offers a pragmatic approach to developing a constructive relationship with one's superior. It addresses the key aspects of successful collaboration: clarification of roles, mutual understanding of needs, effective communication and the ability to negotiate. Through concrete tools and scenarios, participants learn to move from a position of subordination to an adult-to-adult relationship, thus promoting an authentic partnership that is beneficial to both parties. The training encourages a proactive and responsible posture in the managerial relationship.

Training Objectives 

In this course, you will learn how to:

• Create a successful alliance to collaborate better with your manager.
• Find your place; clarify and differentiate roles and responsibilities.
• Understand the needs of your superior to better adjust yourself.
• Communicate your needs to facilitate collaboration.
• Dare to contradict your boss and negotiate with him/her.

Target Audience 

Anyone wishing to promote a positive model of communication and collaboration.

Means and Methods 

• E-learning Modules: Consisting of text, videos, interactive content, and quizzes designed to help you achieve the defined learning outcomes.
• Additional resources: Downloadable documents such as the coaching memo sheet (PDF).

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

• Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change.

SHAKING UP

• a) Storytelling: Video 'A good leader, but not an ally', 0'58
  • A reflection on the notion of reciprocity and authentic partnership between manager and managed
• b) Quiz on the adult-to-adult relationship with your boss

LEARN

• Expert video: Creating an alliance with your boss, 7'42
  • The 4 ways to improve relations with your N+1: find your place, understand your needs, make your needs known and adjust your communication
• Healthy relationship quiz with your manager
• True/False exercise on the boss-collaborator relationship

ANCHOR

• The possibilities of negotiation with one's boss (interviews, autonomy, reporting, etc.)
• How to constructively contradict your boss
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

• Downloadable documents: 
  • Coaching memo sheet (PDF)
• Bonus: TED or Youtube video(s)"