How to Use Communication to Manage Your Manager

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Mastering Communication with Your Manager

Are you struggling to effectively communicate with your boss? This quiz is designed to help you understand how to navigate complex workplace communications and manage your manager's expectations.

Test your communication skills.
Learn to advocate for yourself and your team.
Discover effective strategies for challenging situations.

6 Questions2 MinutesCreated by EngagingTalks247

1. Your manager asks you to change something you had already worked on with your team.... YOU

Respectfully tell your manager that you have already done it a different way

Do as he says because you don´t want to lose your job

Make another of your teammates to deal with it

Only change a small part of the work

2. Your manager asks you to fire someome because they were late.... YOU

Do as he says because you don´t want to lose your job

Argue with him because it´s unfair

List the key points on why he shouldn´t fire them

Ask someone else to do that for you

3. Your familiy has planned a vacation and you want to go, how should YOU communicate this to your boss?

Before departing so you don´t have to see the answer

Call in sick

Explain to your boss what happened, and convince him you will work at your vacation

Cancel the vacation, so you don´t lose your job

4. You have to your children´s school for their grades, tomorrow morning. When will YOU communicate this to your boss?

Tomorrow morning

Today in the afternoon

Tonight

Tomorrow after going to the school

5. When told no from your boss, what would YOUR reaction be?

Quit

Be understanding on your manager reasons

Complain behind his back

Ask him to reconsider, and don´t accept a no as an answer

BONUS: Your boss forces you to transfer to an office you dont like. What impact will it have on YOU and your organization?

You quit and the impact will be losing your job, and the organization losing one of their best workers

You go but the impact will be not working as good as in this office, and the organization decreasing productivity

Whatever you do doesn´t have an impact on the company because you are just another worker

You tolerate it, because you don´t want to lose your job

How to Use Communication to Manage Your Manager

Mastering Communication with Your Manager

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