Manage Your Manager
Helps professionals build a productive working relationship with their manager.
At a glance
- 1 day
Who it's for
- Professionals at all levels
- Team members
- New managers
Learning objectives
- Understand your manager's goals and style
- Align expectations
- Communicate upward effectively
- Handle disagreement constructively
Detailed content
- Priorities and pressures
- Work styles
- Strengths
- Clarifying goals
- Agreeing standards
- Regular one-to-ones
- Status updates
- Bringing solutions
- Asking for support
- Respectful challenge
- Escalation
- Rebuilding trust
Day-by-day agenda
A typical schedule. In-company versions are tailored to your processes, data and timing.
- Understanding your manager
- Aligning expectations
- Communicating upward
- Handling disagreement
- Case study, action plans and course assessment
Practice, tools and assessment
Hands-on practice
- Practice sessions with peer and trainer feedback
- Recorded presentation or role play with improvement plan
- Personal assessment (e.g. style, EQ or time log) and action plan
- Case studies from Egyptian and Gulf organizations
Tools and templates you keep
- Self-assessment questionnaires
- Personal action-plan template
- Checklists and job aids for daily use
- Course workbook and slide handouts
How learning is assessed
- Pre- and post-course knowledge check
- Assessment of practical exercises by the trainer
- Action plan reviewed at the end of the course
Built on these standards and bodies of knowledge
- Kirkpatrick evaluation model (train-the-trainer)
- Goleman emotional-intelligence model
Certificate
Participants who complete the program and its assessment receive a certificate from The Excellence Center, which can be verified online.
New in our 2026 portfolio — tell us your dates and we will confirm the trainer and schedule.
How it is delivered
- Public courses in Cairo, in-company programs and live online training
- Practical exercises, case studies and examples from your sector
- Can also run as Train & Stay in Sharm El Sheikh, Hurghada or Cairo
Frequently asked questions
How long is Manage Your Manager?
The program runs 1 day. In-company versions can be adapted to your needs.
Is the course taught in Arabic or English?
Sessions are usually delivered in Arabic with English technical terms and materials. Full English delivery is available for in-company groups.
Can you run it inside our company?
Yes. In-company programs use exercises built on your own processes. Tell us the group size and preferred timing and we will send a proposal.
Will I receive a certificate?
Participants who complete the program and its assessment receive a certificate from The Excellence Center, which can be verified online.
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Tell us whether you are joining as an individual or planning a program for your team.