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Management Material — 64 episodes
Lead with Vision
Getting Hired and Social Media: Your Digital Footprint
Building an AI-Proof Resume and Cover Letter
Get a New Full-Time Job: Find Your Full-Time Fit
Leadership vs. Management: What's the Difference Between a Manager and a Leader?
Rebuilding Trust and Mastering Transparent Communication in Leadership
Mastering the Art of Feedback: A Leadership Journey to Support and Success
Steering Through Uncertainty: Strategies for Inspiring and Re-Engaging Your Team
Leading After Your Company Has Experienced a Layoff
How to Get Back on Your Feet After Being Laid Off
Leadership: Take the Blame, Lend the Credit
Gaining the Respect of Your Team as a New Manager
How to Handle It When Someone Else Takes Credit for Your Work
How to Get Promoted or Get a Better Job
How to Protect Yourself from a Layoff
Leading Around Indecisive Leaders: A Lesson in Tact
How to Lead a Hybrid or Remote Team: Running Effective and Inclusive Meetings
Communicating with Executives: Point First, Explanation Later
Getting Close With Your Team: Build Trust Over Time
Answering Management Interview Questions: Communicate Wisdom in Action
Focus on What's Good, Not What's Fair: Stop Being Bitter and Be Better
Work When You're at Work
What to Do When You Have an Underperforming Team Member
Integrity is the Key Characteristic of a Strong, Long-Lasting Leader
Managers Use Strong Language, Not Weak Language
Know Your Finance People: Make Friends and Allies, Not Opponents
Influencing without Authority: Change People’s Opinions by Showing You Care
A Manager Builds Trainings for Different Learning Styles
Communicating With Different Personalities and Communication Styles: Motivations and Inductive vs. Deductive Reasoning Styles
Find Your Own Replacement
You’re Always Creating: People are Partners, Not Obstacles
Thriving in Your Career Despite a Micromanaging Boss: Strategies for Growth and Visibility
Don't Sacrifice Your Work-Life Balance: Work Back Down to 35 Hours Per Week
Want to Get Promoted? Network to Impress Your Future Boss
Sit at the Table: You Have Something to Contribute
Give Credit Away: The Right Way and the Wrong Way
Hard Work Alone Won't Get You to Management
Using Your Time at Work: Produce Value for the Company and Help Others Do the Same
Servant Leadership: Humility is a Key Trait of Amazing Managers
Speak Up in Meetings: You Have a Voice. Use it.
Your Internal Monologue: The Stories You Tell Yourself are Holding You Back
Get Around a Micromanaging Boss: Come Up With Your Own Extra Projects
Swallow the Frog in the Morning
Be Brave: Speak Truth to Power in a Respectful Way
Using the Affinity Bias
Approaching Senior Leadership: They Put Their Pants on One Hairy Leg at a Time
Myth: Move Up for Move Out
Plot Your Promotions: Create Your Own Career Path
Stop Touching Your Face (or Scratching Your Head or Biting Your Nails, etc.)
Stop Comparing Yourself to Other People
How Hiring Managers Find the Right Candidates
The Pros and Cons of Making Friends at the Office
Networking is Just Making Friends: A 4-Step Process to Make Networking FUN
The Balance and the Bank: Build a Backlog of Giving and People Will Give Back to You
How to Be a Leader When Your Employer Asks You to Come Back to the Office
Three Priorities that Will Get You Promoted Quickly
Use the Halo Effect to Your Advantage
Managing Up Easily
Champion Diversity at Your Company Through Different Hiring Practices
Be a Leader People Want to Follow
Be Excellent Out Loud: Excelling in an Office is 50% Work Quality and 50% Presentation
Managers Hire Leaders as Managers
Work Smarter AND Harder (But Not Longer Hours)
What Got You Here Won't Get You There