 In addition to building a strong relationship with your boss, you want to start thinking strategically. You want to understand your organization's goals and objectives from a strategic perspective. What's the big picture that your organization is trying to accomplish? That way, when your boss comes to you with an idea you don't think is great, you can say, how does this fit our larger strategic objectives? See what I did there? Give that a try sometime. Your results may vary. Also, in addition to thinking strategically, you want to understand what your boss's priorities are. Remember, your boss has a lot of folks and probably a lot of teams like yours working for him or for her. So we need to be able to put our proposals in the context of what their most important priorities are. If we're not putting it in terms of their priorities, they're probably not going to go our way. So.