How to Influence Your Manager

Most stakeholders, if you're doing this well, will see you as a valuable source of information. You can use that same kind of get in their head line of thinking from earlier and say something like, this is a great way to ask for feedback. That question has been so helpful at opening doors to feedback I would have never otherwise heard. It's just not the typical people who you might think sometimes who are influencing your manager. No matter how much people pretend, no matter what pretenses exist, that's the world we're working within.