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LEHere are 3 ways to manage your manager so you come across more senior. 📝
I’m Anne 👋 my 9-5 is leading as a Senior Manager at a Fortune 10 company, and my 5-9 is creating leadership content that helps you build trust, coach performance, and lead under pressure.
1) Visibility
❌Junior: assumes their manager sees how hard they’re working, so they only loop them in when something is on fire.
✅Senior: runs visibility like a mechanism. Every week they surface wins, risks, and decisions needed. If your leader doesn’t know what you’re driving, you can’t expect advocacy, air cover, or trust when it’s time for bigger scope.
2) Making asks
❌Junior: brings the problem and hopes their manager tells them what to do, or makes a vague ask because they’re not sure what they can decide.
✅Senior: brings options with tradeoffs and a recommendation. They make it easy to say yes by being clear on what they need: approve, prioritize, remove a blocker, or align stakeholders.
3) Following up
❌Junior: assumes alignment, then priorities shift and now they feel like they’re guessing what their manager actually wants.
✅Senior: closes with a recap in writing: what we agreed on, what the priority is, and the next checkpoint. It protects clarity, protects you, and keeps the work moving.
If you want to be treated like a senior leader, stop relying on effort being “seen” and start running your relationship with your manager like a system. 💅🏻
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