Recognition and Influence: Making Your Manager Work With You

A candid conversation about one of the most important (and often overlooked) career skills: how to succeed when recognition, alignment, and feedback don’t naturally flow through your manager.

In many organizations, great work doesn’t fail because it isn’t impactful, it fails to gain visibility at the right moments. Employees are often doing meaningful work, but signals get lost between competing priorities, communication gaps, and the everyday noise of distributed teams.

In this conversation, we’ll explore how to build alignment, earn trust, and communicate in ways that get your work seen and supported, even in imperfect or challenging leadership environments. We’ll also look at how tools like **Recognize (RecognizeApp.com)** can help close the gap between contribution and visibility by embedding appreciation directly into everyday workflows, making recognition more consistent, immediate, and natural for both managers and peers.

This isn’t about politics or personality conflicts; it’s about learning how to shape the relationship you already have into one that accelerates your growth.