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    Managing Upwards Pocketbook
    Managing Upwards Pocketbook
    Managing Upwards Pocketbook
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    Managing Upwards Pocketbook

    By Patrick Forsyth

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    How to get the best from your working relationship with your boss and other senior people is the subject of The Managing Upwards Pocketbook. It begins by looking at what makes a good boss and what drives the relationship - from both the subordinate's and the boss's perspective. There is advice on how to build a partnership that is constructive, straightforward, trusting and mutually beneficial. Under the heading 'working to create impact' the book deals with such matters as taking a brief, objectives and targets, using timings and deadlines to advantage, and progress reports. Subsequent chapters detail how to communicate with senior people (including listening to each other), how to get agreement and how to handle difficulties such as poor information flow, broken promises, the 'leave it to me' syndrome and more serious issues such as bullying and sexual harassment. Job appraisals, are dealt with too.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherManagement Pocketbooks
    Release dateSep 16, 2015
    ISBN9781907077814
    Managing Upwards Pocketbook
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    Patrick Forsyth

    Patrick Forsyth has worked for many years as a business consultant and management trainer. Linked to this he is the author of more than fifty business and management, personal development, self-help and career books (for example, Successful time management and How to write reports and proposals, both published by Kogan Page.In recent years his writing has expanded into broader areas. He has had a humorous book published about miscommunication, Empty when half full, described by one reviewer as “hilarious”. In addition, he has had short stories published and also writes about writing for Writing Magazine for which he also pens a monthly column.He first travelled to South East Asia some thirty years ago, and has visited regularly – especially to Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand - for both work and holidays every year since. His travels have produced two further published books: Beguiling Burma and Smile because it happened about Thailand (both are published by ReThink Press).He lives in the United Kingdom, in Maldon in Essex, where he writes looking out over the River Blackwater.

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