Executive Communication and Managing Up Questions

Communicating upward to your own manager, senior leadership, executives, and boards, and knowing when and how to escalate. Covers leading with the recommendation, distilling detail into an executive summary, tailoring to C-suite priorities, and projecting appropriate executive presence, as well as keeping leadership informed, raising risks and bad news early and honestly, managing expectations upward, and judging what to handle versus escalate. Assesses both the messaging skill for senior audiences and the judgment about information flow to those above you.