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Managing the Relationship with Your Boss

Course Overview

Managers can't be truly effective unless they are able to nimbly manage the relationship with their boss (or bosses) as well as they manage relationships with staff.

This workshop explores how an improved understanding of the boss-manager relationship can have big payoffs. You'll learn how to evaluate each other's strengths, weaknesses, work styles, communication preferences, and needs; then use the results to develop an action plan for improvement in your own practice. Also explored are the complexities of working for multiple "bosses" in group practices.

Learning Objectives

As a result of attending this course, participants will understand how to:

  • Articulate the relationship with their boss using "art therapy"

  • Recognize the 5 Truths about working for physician bosses

  • Evaluate the communication and workstyle preferences of themselves and their bos

  • Outline their own, and their bosses, workstyle and communication profile

  • Identify areas of the manager-boss relationship that need improvement

Who Should Attend?

Practice administrators, managers, and physician leaders who manage others. This is an interactive workshop.

How Long is the Workshop?

1–2 hours. The longer version includes more participant discussion and interactive exercises.

If you are interested in this workshop for your group or society, contact the Practice Management Programs Coordinator at (312) 642-5616.

KarenZupko & Associates, Inc. • 625 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 2225 • Chicago, Illinois 60611 • 312.642.5616 • FAX: 312.642.5571

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