Communicate with your boss
– Free Quickstudy Sampler –
This sampler from the Quickstudy Manager Builder series shows you how to position yourself to either provide or request information from your boss at the right time, and in ways that will make your boss see you as the skilled and valued person you are!
- Timing your requests
- Providing and requesting information
- Tapping into your boss’s expertise
- How to share your successes and your problems with your boss
Take advantage of our bi-monthly 5 day challenge to better communication with your boss and join our Savvy Supervisor Facebook community to share with like-minded colleagues!
Once you have sampled Quickstudy, you can try our single course or subscription Quickstudy Manager Builder package.
This course is for you:
- You want to improve your relationship with your boss
- You need to find ways to get your boss to listen to you
- It is hard to know what your boss actually wants from you
- You can dedicate 15 minutes a day for 5 days to the 5 day challenge
- You want to connect with other supervisors and managers
This course is not for you:
- You and your boss understand each other perfectly
- Your boss is a great listener and so are you
- You and your boss arrive at decisions together easily
- You can’t dedicate 15 minutes a day for 5 days to the course lessons and action item
How will this course benefit you?
- Learn to find your boss’s style and how to speak to that style
- Get more specific about what your boss does well
- Find a way to reach your goals with your boss
- Connect you with a community of supervisors and managers who support each other
- Give you a taste of how the Quickstudy Manager Builder courses work for you
What you will get with your subscription:
- 5 days of targeted lessons to improve your communication with your boss
- 5 action items to accomplish one small thing each day to improve communication with your boss
- A handy checklist for managing up to provide you with boss communication strategies
- Connection to our Savvy Supervisors FaceBook closed group and access to other savvy supervisors like you!
- A bonus power point example of an excellent boss/employee communication scenario
- Upon completion of the 5 action items for the 5 day challenge, receive your own Savvy Supervisors mug mailed to you!
Work and Culture Sampler
– FREE Sampler –
Experience the problems of intercultural misunderstandings at work and learn how to avoid them with this free Work and Culture Sampler module.
It features three short video animations about workplace cultural conflict scenes and a talk show clip explaining cultural themes that affect the workplace. Several interactive activities and quizzes help apply how cultural differences affect workplace expectations and communication.
This course is for you:
- You want to understand how culture impacts work and potentially your job
- You have had intercultural communications misunderstandings
- You are interested in reducing conflict between cultures at work
- You want an introduction to foundational concepts about culture to improve your interpersonal work relationships
This course is not for you:
- You already have a lot of formal education about intercultural communication
- You have lived in at least three different places and have reflected on the culture of each place
- You have a background in intercultural conflict resolution
- You always understand other people and they always understand you
How will this course benefit you?
- The serious impact of intercultural miscommunication at work will become clear
- You will start to notice culture in ways you have not done so in the past
- You will want to know more
- You will start to ask better questions to get past intercultural conflict at work
What you will get with your subscription:
- Three different cultural misunderstanding incidents shown as animations
- Three explanations of why things happened as they did
- Cultural comparisons, exercises and reflections for each incident
- A video overview of how concepts showing how culture affects the workplace
