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Individual Excellence

Managing up: How to get what you want & give your boss what they need

Three tips to manage your boss:

  1. Offer solutions, not problems
  2. Make requests, not complaints
  3. Keep your boss in the loop

Your managers are thinking about who to promote. Will it be you?

1/ Grade yourself against 3-5 core aspects of your job. 2/ Provide data that supports the grade. 3/ Send it to them and ask them to do the same. 4/ Now, here's the part that requires courage and finesse (depending on if they agree or disagree). 5/ Now once a month between now and promotion time: Send them an update. Show them how you stacked the wins and closed the gaps. Use metrics to quantify how you're moving the needle.

Achieve excellence at work by mastering these tactics

This article has threads on:

  • Get hired by a great company
  • Crush your annual review
  • Advocate for yourself
  • Grow w/ self-reflection
  • Delegate effectively
  • Level up to manager
  • Start your own biz
  • Show gratitude

How do I make sure my work is visible? by James Stanier

Write Brag documents:

  • The big item. a headline story to the week that’s worth calling out.
  • Projects. Projects that my teams have been working out.
  • Useful ideas and links. summarizes things I’ve seen or heard over the week.
  • Miscellania. Any other small items that didn’t fit into the above are grouped at the bottom.

"The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" book

  1. Be proactive: Take initiative in your life and don't just react to situations.
  2. Begin with the end in mind: Set goals and plan how to achieve them.
  3. Put first things first: Prioritize important tasks and manage your time effectively.
  4. Think win-win: Seek mutually beneficial solutions in relationships and collaborations.
  5. Seek first to understand, then to be understood: Listen actively to others and try to understand their perspectives before communicating your own.
  6. Synergize: Work effectively with others to achieve more than you could on your own.
  7. Sharpen the saw: Take care of your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being to maintain your effectiveness.

Internal comms for executives by Will Larson

A typical update is along the lines of:

  • One to two sentences about something human. Something that surprised me this week, something that energized me this week, something that made this week stand out for me
  • One sentence summarizing any key reminders for upcoming deadlines or dates
  • One paragraph for each important topic that has come up over the course of the week. These might be a quarterly planning update, a controversial tech spec, a product launch, a partner escalation, or any other topic that feels important. I usually pick 2 to 3 topics for each week
  • A bulleted list of brief updates. These might be an incident review, a tech spec, a product design, an interesting discussion in chat, or anything else I want to create some visibility around
  • Close with an invitation for folks to reach out with questions, thoughts, and concerns