{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Leadership Sovereignty Podcast: Career Growth and Promotion","title":"Lead Your Leader: How to Master Leading Up and Build Influence That Gets You Promoted","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1566,"description":"What if the most valuable leadership skill you've never been taught isn't how to manage your team, it's how to lead the person you report to?\n\nIn this episode of The Leadership Sovereignty Podcast, host Ralph E. Owens II and co-host Terry Baylor sit down with Lawrence Scott, United States Military Academy at West Point graduate, former Army officer, and certified John Maxwell Team leadership coach, to break down the skill almost nobody trains you on: leading up.\nLawrence puts it plainly. Every professional needs to master two things: leading down, the people who report to you, and leading up, the person you report to. Most leadership development stops at the first one. This conversation is built entirely around the second.\nHe walks through the real mechanics of it: why the leaders above you are giants, not gods, how trust gets built long before your best idea ever needs approval, and why knowing what actually motivates your specific leader changes how quickly your ideas move.\n\nWHO THIS EPISODE IS FOR\nYou want to influence the direction of your team or organization, not just wait for direction to come to you\nYou're ready to treat \"leading up\" as a skill you can practice, not a personality trait you either have or don't\nYou want to build real trust with your leader instead of hoping your work eventually speaks for itself\nYou lead people yourself and want a sharper sense of what it looks like from the other side of the table\nYou're aiming for your next promotion and know that visibility with leadership matters as much as output\nWHAT YOU'LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE\nWhy leading up is a distinct, learnable skill, not something you either have or don't\nWhy the people you answer to are giants, not gods, and what that reframe changes about how you show up\nHow trust is built in small tasks long before you're ever handed a big idea\nWhy you have to identify what motivates your specific leader instead of assuming\nThe difference between being injured and being incapacitated by...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/HrtAHE3tIaxuHOQdgCfKGWhEfwHl0O5gNGoh7oEDgkY/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zNjVi/MDVlODYwMjRlZTZi/ZTk3MzZmNzA1ZmU1/NmEwZC5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}