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This video workshop has tools and techniques for dealing with the Hippo boss

It’s not always possible to save every relationship. This exercise helps you weigh up the pros and cons of staying in your current job role, reporting to your current boss.

If you've an opposite-sex boss, you need to understand how certain behaviours (some of which maybe unconscious on your part) can threaten them - and the likely defence responds your boss will take. We show how women can emasculate men, and men can threaten women - and how to avoid it.

We show you a second model to illustrate how dysfunctional interactions in relationships play out and why. Then we show you how to remove yourself from the dynamic by reframing your role. It's a very handy tool for taking back personal responsibility and empowering yourself to improve relationships and your self esteem.

We use a model from transactional analysis to help you better understand relationship dynamics, and how certain roles are being played out in manager to direct report relationships. We show you how changing these roles will change how you are treated by your boss for the better.

Often what we think our boss wants is not really what he's after! In this video class, Marie talks through an example of how a client didn't give their boss the answer she was after, and how you can get beneath the surface to better understand what your boss really wants.

When you understand the three truths to managing up, you can change your mindset. This puts you in a much more empowered place - it will help you take personal responsibility and to drive constructive change.

Each of the four types of nightmare boss have different characteristics and demonstrate classic behaviours. We investigate how they give feedback, set objectives, what they are like in meetings, and how they behave under stress.

Real impact, not only in meetings, comes from have a clearly defined purpose. This lesson helps you define your purpose. It also provides tips and advice on how to show your enthusiasm and passion to others in meetings.