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“Managing-Up” is often on people’s radars. So is managing down, managing cross-wise, sideways and in every other imaginable GPS-like direction.  Just how to you get people to do (or at least listen) to what’s important to you especially if you don’t have the title or authority to force them to be your captive audience? It’s time to Author-Edit my friend. I created (or rather stumbled upon) this model more than a decade ago when working with Reuter’s News Service in London. Great group – those news service types… just a bit “blank” when it came to the inevitable discussion around managing or influencing others. Here’s how Author-Edit works- draw a square…

Without a doubt, Human Resource professionals are pulled in gargantuan sized directions. If it’s not figuring out executive compensation packages, it’s running to make sure that the coffee dispenser is sufficiently stocked with a sufficient assortment of caffeine laden drinks..  You say you’ve only got a department of three… two… just you? Hmmm. Seems to be the new reality. So what can you do (exhausted as you are) to think and act strategically?  In truth, there are a few tactical solutions to being strategic that will better position you at the table with the C Suite.

Here are just a few…