# Manage Up ## The What As your career progresses, you will collaborate with team leaders, managers, senior managers, and executives. The most effective approach to engage with your manager is to communicate openly, address issues with solutions, and maintain regular check-ins. ## The How ### Deliver messages in a clear format Avoid short messages that lack context, prefer simple and clear writing, set context, clarify assumptions, and share your rationales with the reasoning process. ``` Highlight: Recommendation, action item, or question --- Context: Bring a bit of background and your thought process ``` ### Identify potential issues and provide solutions * Identify an issue -> Situation * Clarify the impact -> Impact * Recommend solutions with pros and cons -> Options * Loop in your manager -> Allow them to weigh in ### **Keep your manager in the loop** * Share things on your radar * Clarify your focus area and provide the rationale behind your prioritisation * Make sure they know the good, the bad, and the ugly ## :scroll: Tips * Over-communication until they tell you to dial it back * Manage up to avoid micro-management ## Refs * [15 principles for managing up](https://newsletter.weskao.com/p/15-principles-for-managing-up) by Wes Kao --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://jamiewen00.gitbook.io/tech-lead-handbook/people/manage-up.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.