At a recent conference, a topic came up that generated more conversation than almost anything else on the programme: managing up. Not performance management, not leading a team, not difficult conversations with direct reports, but the art of communicating effectively with those above you in the hierarchy. It struck a nerve, and for good reason. […]
Picture the scene. A room of around 14 education leaders, a solicitor at the front running a session on absence management. Good content, useful stuff, the kind of thing anyone with responsibility for a team should probably sit through at least once. As the session progresses, it becomes quietly, unmistakably obvious that every single
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