Managing Up: Building Effective Relationships with Your Manager

Managing Up: Building Effective Relationships with Your Manager is a practical digital learning module that helps employees take ownership of their working relationship with their manager. Rather than focusing on hierarchy, this course reframes managing up as a collaborative, professional skill that strengthens communication, alignment, and performance.

Designed for easy LMS deployment, this module supports healthier manager–employee relationships and more effective day-to-day working across the organisation.

Why L&D Teams Choose This Module

✔ LMS-ready and easy to deploy
SCORM-compliant and ready to upload with no internal development required.

✔ Builds everyday relationship skills
Helps employees communicate more clearly, manage expectations, and add value.

✔ Suitable for all employees
Ideal for new starters, experienced employees, and those preparing for future leadership roles.

✔ Supports engagement and performance
Stronger working relationships lead to better collaboration, trust, and outcomes.

What’s Inside the Module

What Managing Up Really Means

Learners explore managing up as a shared responsibility — focusing on collaboration, professionalism, and mutual success rather than influence or politics.

Understanding Your Manager’s Style and Preferences

Employees learn how to recognise and adapt to different communication styles, work preferences, and expectations.

Communicating Effectively and Proactively

Practical guidance on being clear, direct, respectful, and concise — including how to raise concerns, ask questions, and share ideas confidently.

Taking Ownership of Work and Development

The module encourages accountability, solution-focused thinking, and active ownership of performance and career growth.

Bridging Gaps and Adding Value

Learners discover how to proactively support their manager and team by identifying gaps, sharing strengths, and stepping up when needed.

Contributing to a Positive Team Culture

Explores how everyday behaviours impact trust, morale, and collaboration — and how employees can be cultural contributors, not costs.

Recognising Your Manager’s Humanity

Employees build empathy and emotional intelligence by understanding pressures, assumptions, and the human side of leadership.

Key Features

✓ SCORM-compliant
✓ Interactive, scenario-based learning
✓ Practical, behaviour-led content
✓ Suitable for all roles and levels
✓ Ideal for onboarding, core skills, and leadership pathways

Strengthen Working Relationships Across Your Organisation

Managing Up helps employees communicate more effectively, take responsibility for their role in workplace relationships, and work in partnership with their manager — creating stronger teams and better outcomes for everyone.

Ready to deploy. Easy to scale. Highly practical.