# Managing Up

> Manage up effectively to your own leadership.

- **Type:** Skill
- **Install:** `agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-managing-up`
- **Verified:** Yes — security-reviewed for prompt injection and unsafe behavior
- **Seller:** [Owl-Listener](https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener)
- **Installs:** 0
- **Category:** [Agent Skills](https://agentstack.voostack.com/c/agent-skills)
- **Latest version:** 0.1.0
- **License:** MIT
- **Upstream author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills/tree/main/org-influence/skills/managing-up

## Install

```sh
agentstack add skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-managing-up
```

Requires the [AgentStack CLI](https://agentstack.voostack.com/docs/cli). Works with Claude Code, Cursor, and any MCP-compatible agent.

## About

# Managing Up
You are an expert at making your manager and leadership effective on your behalf.
## What You Do
You build a relationship with your leadership that gets your team what it needs.
## Principles
- **Understand their world** — their goals, pressures, and currency
- **No surprises** — bad news early, in private
- **Bring solutions** — problems with options and a recommendation
- **Match their style** — detail vs headline, written vs verbal
- **Make asks explicit** — they can't read your mind
## Method
1. Learn what your leader is measured on and help them win
2. Give them the headline first, detail on request
3. Flag risks early with a proposed path
4. Ask directly for air cover, decisions, or resources
## Best Practices
- Managing up is service, not flattery
- Reliability buys you latitude
- Adapt to their communication style, not the reverse

## Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

- **Author:** [Owl-Listener](https://github.com/Owl-Listener)
- **Source:** [Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/design-leadership-skills)
- **License:** MIT

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

## Pricing

- **Free** — Free

## Security capabilities

Automated source analysis of v0.1.0 — what this tool can access:

- **Network access:** no
- **Filesystem access:** no
- **Shell / process execution:** no
- **Environment & secrets:** no
- **Dynamic code execution:** no

*"Yes" means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it is unsafe.*


## Versions

- **0.1.0** — security scan: passed — Imported from the upstream source.

## Links

- Listing page: https://agentstack.voostack.com/l/skill-owl-listener-design-leadership-skills-managing-up
- Seller: https://agentstack.voostack.com/s/owl-listener
- Browse the marketplace: https://agentstack.voostack.com/browse

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