Optimizing your time of exchange with your boss

Training Theme

This training helps to optimize the time spent with your manager by addressing common challenges such as lack of availability or micromanagement. Through a structured approach combining storytelling and expertise, it allows you to understand the importance of a balanced relationship and to acquire practical tools for effective collaboration. The training focuses on adapting the communication style according to the manager's profile, negotiating reporting and seeking autonomy. The goal is to create a beneficial temporal alliance, where everyone benefits from daily interactions.

Training Objectives

In this online course, you will learn how to:

• Identify the topics on which it is important to discuss and collaborate.
• Optimize the meeting times with your boss for mutual benefit.
• Negotiate the frequency, content, and format of reporting to provide to your boss.
• Position yourself in front of an omnipresent boss while maintaining a healthy level of autonomy.
• Assert yourself with an absent boss to obtain the information and validation necessary for the progress of your projects.

Target Audience 

Anyone wishing to (re)gain control of their time.

Training Content 

This module contains 4 parts:

DISCOVER

• Identify your personal challenges and motivations for change.

SHAKING UP

• Storytelling: Video Timéo and the Temporal Alliance (2'06) – metaphorical story about the relationship between a time craftsman and the Great Watchmaker
• Quiz on the good practices identified in the video

LEARN

• Expert video: My chef and my time (10'04)
  • Challenges of the managerial relationship, strategies to optimize exchanges depending on whether the boss is too present or absent
• Quiz and TRUE/FALSE exercise on key concepts
• Article 6 hours a week with my manager?
• Quiz on managing an overly present manager

ANCHOR

• Time management with the manager according to different profiles
• Adaptation strategies according to the management style
• Use concrete examples to define your own commitment to change.

Additional resources

• Downloadable documents: Coaching memo sheet (PDF)