How to Communicate With Your Boss by Nicole Dieker
A good working relationship with your manager is all about communication—but how can you ensure that you’re passing on the right information at the right time? In the best-case scenarios, managers will be clear about what they want to know and when they want to know it. Realistically, however, many of us will end up taking the lead on sharing information with our manager, a practice that is often called “managing up.”
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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