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Manager Matt Podcast Show — 329 episodes

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1

Why Should You Train Your Team.

2

What Really is Culture in your Business?

3

Where Has Accountability Gone?

4

Friday Thought, What Leadership Shadow Do You Cast?

5

When is it Time to Change your Team?

6

Promotions at work the Good and the Bad

7

Humans should we treat them as Machines?

8

When Should You Be More Direct as a Leader?

9

What Do Leaders Need to Do in 2026

10

How to Give Your Boss What they Need

11

How Confidence is your Armour in Leadership

12

Seize the Day — Without Sacrificing Tomorrow

13

How to Handle Team Failure as a Leader

14

How Good Culture Strengths Your Workplace

15

The Customer is Always Right, Right?

16

The Power Of Saying No to get Great Results

17

Back to Basics, Back to Standard, Back to Best

18

Top 5 New Years Leaders Resolutions.

19

2025 Review of the Year

20

Merry Christmas from Manager Matt

21

The Best Questions to Get Your Peers Working With You

22

Top Ways a Stoic Mindset Supports Effective Management & Leadership

23

How to Sell Your Ideas as a Leader

24

Top 10 Priorities of your First 90 Days in a New Role.

25

5 Worst Management Behaviours

26

Why You Should Speak Up as a Leader

27

Traditional Management V Coaching Management

28

How to Answer the Improvement Question in an Interview

29

Lazy Interview Questions Friday Thought

30

Top 5 Skills Of A Good Operations Manager

31

How To Build Your Successor.

32

How to Be The Best Site Manager.

33

How to Be The Best Shift Manager

34

How to Be The Best Team Leader

35

Using "What If " Planning in your Business

36

How To Manager The Unmanageable Worker

37

Why Operational Excellence is important to your business

38

300 Episodes (Again)

39

What I’ve Learned as a Senior Manager: The Do’s, the Don’ts & the Hard Truths

40

How to Take a Proper Holiday from Work, Without the Dread

41

Top 5 Management Fads of the Past Decade (and What’s Next for 2025)

42

How to Make Real Procedures Stick For Good

43

When Pizzas Not Enough to motivate Through Redundancy.

44

How to Stop Training Becoming a Waste of Time.

45

The Dos and Don't when you become a New Senior Leader

46

How to Unwind From Work The Right Way

47

Cross over episode What has Lean Ever done For Your Business

48

How to Be a Soft Touch Manager

49

Cross Over E6 Finding Waste In Your Business.

50

How to be a Tough Manager

51

Lean Cross over Show episode 5 Heart and Minds

52

How to Lead Well Under Pressure

53

Cross over E4 Lean Improvement Show Finding Waste

54

The Power Of 3 in Leadership

55

Cross Over E3 of the Lean Business Improvement Show

56

How to Deal With A Tough Meeting

57

Cross over E2 of the Lean Business Improvement show.

58

How to Avoid Becoming A Native at Work.

59

Lean Business Improvements

60

How to Survive a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)

61

The 3C of Attracted and Retaining Staff

62

Use your teams talent or lose it

63

Imperfect Action

64

Settling World Class Objectives

65

How to be boring and Consistant in Leadership

66

Imposter Syndrome as a Leader

67

How to Stop Firefighting as a Leader

68

Using Hard and Soft data with your team

69

Tough Management Decisions On Labour

70

Be Consistent as a Leader

71

Busy Busy but not Productive

72

Bouncing back from Adversity

73

Habit loops Hacks in the New Year

74

2024 End of Year Review

75

Severance, are your teams Brains engaged ?

76

Its Not My Job, The dreaded Words

77

How to Deal with Rejection for a Job Interview

78

Best Answers to the Top Interview Questions

79

Power Word to use in a Job Interview

80

Refections Of 250 Episodes

81

Could you fly the plane? Leading with confidence.

82

Change Management The Best Way to Deliver.

83

How to Regulate Your Emotions In Work.

84

Does Your Team Have Your Back?

85

Why do you feel you're not good enough?

86

The erosion of trust in leadership

87

Stop Using Constructive criticism

88

Politics at work, can you live without them?

89

Handling Emotions at Work.

90

Q and A session Flexibility, Teamwork and Decision making

91

How do we Miss the Unmissable? Clutter Blind in Business.

92

How to overcome Silo thinking

93

Automatic Negative Thoughts, Marvin the robot.

94

Q and A Session, Raises, Boss Advice and Jobs for life.

95

Monittoring rsults and having a process

96

Q and A session, Attitude, New job and Morning Meetings

97

What to do about Attention Seeking Bosses

98

Friday Thought, Go and talk at their Desk (Working From Home)

99

Accountability Who's Is it?

100

Leading With Optimism

101

How do leaders set direction and standards.

102

Should Leaders Focus on Purpose?

103

Why Do People Hate Work?

104

How Does a Leader Set Culture

105

Effective Communications at Work Part 2

106

Effective Communications at Work Part 1

107

Second Interview Presentation TIPS

108

Ego Boss, how to deal with them

109

Whats Killing Your Teams?

110

Friday thought, Is Sorry the Hardest Word To Say?

111

How to Handle Conflict at Work.

112

Starting a New Role the Right Way

113

How to solve problems as a leader.

114

Good Habits as a manager

115

Take Ownership as the Leader.

116

How to Coach Your Teams

117

The Joys Of Delegation

118

How to Become a Better Leader

119

Feedback Revisited

120

One to one, Interview with HR expert Sarah Case MS

121

Revisit to One to ones

122

Friday Thought Remove The Stress.

123

Management and Leadership Plan for the year.

124

2024 The New Era Of Manager Matt.

125

The End of the Year Show Show

126

How to Rebuild Trust at Work

127

Receiving Difficult Feedback

128

The Psychological Impact Of Leading

129

The Highs and Lows of Leadership

130

What to Do when things go Wrong as a Manager.

131

200 Episode, Episode

132

How to Be More Resilient.

133

Dealing With Tough Questions as a Manager

134

Having The Tough Conversation

135

How to grow a High Performance Team

136

How do Leaders Support Mental Health At Work?

137

Grow your Development SEED

138

Team work is Dream work

139

Are you Born a Leader ?

140

Improving team communication and engagement

141

Moving People To Act

142

Delegation Skills

143

Presenting with Confidence

144

How to Deliver a Message, Do's and Dont's

145

Concept of Leadership P3 KPI and Strategy

146

How to be a General Manager.

147

Concepts of Leadership P2 Positive leadership and Safety

148

What employers look for in emplyes

149

Concepts of Leadership P1 The Big 5

150

The People Factors of Leadership Explored

151

How to be comfortable challenging others

152

How to Lead By Example

153

How to Manage Your Monkeys

154

How to Execute Your plan

155

Influencing Skills

156

5 Tips to Improve Your Relationship with your Boss.

157

8 things that make you a good leader.

158

Wrong things done for the right reasons.

159

How to Break the Blame Game.

160

5 Tips to Resolve Conflict

161

Been an Effective Leader

162

4 ways we clash at Work.

163

Understanding Change Stress as a Leader

164

Best Way to Retain Staff.

165

5 TIPS for better meeting productivity.

166

The Decision Triangle

167

5 Areas of Ownership in Business

168

40/70 Rule for decision making.

169

Blurred Lines, does Your Team follow every rule?

170

10 Top Tips To Be A Better Manager.

171

How to Have Fun at Work.

172

Blue Monday 2023 Are you a Drain or Radiator ?

173

New Year Goal, Fail to plan

174

Top CEO Tips for Leaders

175

Thank you 2022

176

Top take aways from 2022 shows

177

End of the year Performance reviews

178

Reflections on Leadership. What you need to know.

179

The Hiding Manager

180

5 TIPS for new managers

181

Keeping Your People Safe.

182

Introduction to Series 6

183

Building Resilience as a Leader

184

Motivation and Job Performance

185

Emotional Intelligence as a Leader.

186

How to Keep hold of High Performers at Work

187

What in and out of your control

188

How to Give Advice the right way.

189

Why are staff Leaving your Business?

190

What Good Leaders Say

191

Interview Tool Are you a STAR?

192

Work throws you a Curve Ball

193

How not to use communication to your team.

194

How to Handle Conflict At Work

195

Leadership Resilience

196

FridayThought, Make the Call.

197

No Sxxt Sherlock, Avoid the Obvious Questions

198

Friday Thoughts Dress Code

199

How to Deal with Burn Out At Work.

200

Friday Thought on the 4 Day Working Week

201

The Value Of Enterprising Spirit

202

The Peter Principles and how to Motivate your team.

203

Good Grounded Optimising.

204

Can you be really ill at work anymore?

205

Friday Thought Do the things you don't need talent always

206

Choices and Consequences

207

Friday Thought Will Smith and Creating the gap.

208

Positional Power Usage as a Leader.

209

My Thoughts, Should You Turn Your Light Down?

210

Control the Controllable Costs.

211

Formulate your work Imperatives.

212

Monday Moan Outsourcing Functions.

213

Wednesday Word Supporting Your Directs.

214

Friday Thought How To Adapt

215

Luck in Management

216

Communicate your Purpose

217

Ground Hog Day Mindset.

218

Whats your teams purpose?

219

The Art Of Better Meetings

220

The Blue Monday Mindset

221

The Art Of Recharging Yourself.

222

Empowering New Years Resolution

223

Delegation New Years Resolution.

224

Coaching New Years Resolution

225

Feedback New Years Resolution

226

One to one new years resolution

227

New Years Management Resolutions

228

Thank You For Listening

229

Best Team Behaviours to get results.

230

The Right To Rest, Should we have it?

231

Could home working be killing Creativity.

232

Improving Staff Morale

233

Positive Psychology Ratios In Life.

234

Mind mapping Manager Matts Way

235

Are you hungry for your work?

236

What Shadow do you cast as a leader?

237

Time Management, Stop the Time Bandits

238

Can you say your Sorry as a Manager?

239

There are no Human Errors.

240

Should I stay or should I go? Leaving a job or stay in role.

241

Managing In a Crisis.

242

Series 4 Manager Matt Returns

243

Empowering your Team, Re broadcast Special.

244

Coaching your team, Re broadcast Summer Special

245

Delegation Re broadcast Summer Special.

246

Feedback Re Broadcast Summer Special.

247

One to one Re Broadcast Summer Special.

248

Management Big 5 Re Broadcast Special.

249

How To deal With a Team Members Resignation.

250

Top Tip cast Week 5

251

Top Tip cast week 4

252

Thought of the week. Give Credit To Your Team.

253

Top Tip Cast Week 3

254

Are you been Micro Managed ?

255

Top tips cast week 2

256

The Fisherman and the Business man Fable

257

Top Tips to start your week.

258

Thought of the day, Why do we think failing is a bad thing?

259

How to be prepare for change as a manager.

260

Thought, Can you Be your True Self At Work?

261

Taking feedback as the leader.

262

Thoughts Theres always pot holes in the road of life.

263

Thought Is not to bad a poor way to see the world?

264

Thought Why are we frightened of competition at work?

265

Friday Thought Scan for Threats

266

You Don't Know What you Don't Know.

267

Friday Thought Creating The Path

268

Ownership in Business

269

Friday Thought, 2 Ears 1 Month, Listening

270

Friday Thought Micro Gestures in Management.

271

How to Hit Project Deadlines

272

How to be Present At Work.

273

Friday Thought The Curse of Complication.

274

How to Develop Your Team

275

Friday thought Stop putting your head in the sand

276

Setting clear expectations for your Teams.

277

Friday thought Let’s get back to the office.

278

How to give Bad News the Right Way.

279

Good Friday thought, Are You Sacrificing To Much for work?

280

How to handover your role.

281

Friday thought what meetings can I miss?

282

Audit Time Are You Ready?

283

Friday thought what would you do without a PC?

284

Getting ready for a new job

285

Friday thought Do you Say thank you to your team?

286

Handing in your notice the right way.

287

Friday Thought, How do you manage Mental health.?

288

Second Interview 90 day Presentation Advice.

289

Friday Thought Are you Speaking In code?

290

Goal setting revisited 2021.

291

Friday Thought Forward All Culture.

292

How to do a good yearly performance review.

293

Series 3 Return of Manager Matt.

294

How to improve you’re interviewing technique.

295

Friday thought are you missing your work mates?

296

Disciplinary the right way

297

Friday Thought Time To Learn.

298

The Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) Explained.

299

Friday thought, Born trouble maker or bored trouble maker.

300

Thank You for listening Merry Christmas

301

Friday Thought "Take it off Mute"

302

One to ones Revisited.

303

Strategy Into Action. Mission statement into a real action plan.

304

Friday thought. The sxxt sandwich Anybody want one?

305

Why is my team So lazy.? And how can I change them?

306

Friday thought Are you captain Jester on the ship of fools?

307

Tactical Improvement Plan, (TIP) Working Together To Improve.

308

Friday Thought Keep Calm and Deliver Results.

309

How To Set Good Goals For You and Your Team.

310

Friday Thoughts Our Survey Says

311

Management remotely will they miss you ?

312

Feedback The Gift that Keeps Giving.

313

Series 2 Manager Matt Strikes Back.

314

Friday Thought Happy Friday Everyone.

315

Listeners Question How do I get experience at Management ?

316

Friday Thought "Why are you reading copied in E mails?"

317

Problem solving. Why does it not work?

318

Friday Though "Just Say No"

319

Good Habits to Embed the Big 5

320

Why Cant Badgers Cross the Road?

321

Empowering your Teams to Deliver.

322

Friday Though "Whats the Real KPIs?"

323

Coaching Your Team

324

Friday thought "Are you indecisive or are you not sure?

325

Delegation. who does what when

326

Friday Thought "Enjoy The Silence"

327

Feedback. Can you handle the truth?

328

The Power of One to ones

329

Manager Matt The Why