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The Manager Track — 315 episodes

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Why Team-Level AI Integration Should Be Your #1 Job Right Now (Ep 312)

2

Delegating: When Stepping In Becomes Stepping On (E 311)

3

The First 6 Months in a New Leadership Role: 3 Shifts You Need to Make (Ep 310)

4

From Executor to Strategist: How to Talk About Your Work at the Right Altitude (Ep.309)

5

When You Regret Hiring Someone: What to Do Before It Gets Worse (Ep.308)

6

The ‘AI vs Human Skills’ Managers Must Pay Attention to (Ep.307)

7

How to Tell If Your Boss Is Blocking Your Career (And What to Do) (Ep.306)

8

How to Give Your Manager Feedback (Without Damaging the Relationship) (Ep.305)

9

The 3 Identity Barriers Holding High-Performers Back (Ep. 304)

10

Exec Communication: How to Speak So Senior Leaders Actually Listen (Ep. 303)

11

Creating Leadership Alignment When Priorities Are Unclear - With Betsy Kauffman (Ep. 302)

12

Why Good Managers Still Lose Great People (Ep. 301)

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From IC to Manager: Hard Truths About First-Time Leadership (Ep. 300)

14

How to Rebuild a Bad Work Reputation (Ep. 299)

15

How to Build Trust Fast as a New Leader (Ep. 298)

16

Skip Level Meetings: Best Practices for Managers and Leaders (Ep. 297)

17

AI for Managers in 2026 (Ep.296)

18

Why Leaders Must Build Their Own Frameworks to Scale Impact (Ep.295)

19

Want to Achieve Big Goals? The Two Critical Factors Most People Miss

20

The Self-Sacrificing Manager: Breaking the Cycle of Doing Everyone's Work

21

Build a Team Culture You’re Proud Of - Even When the Company’s Isn’t

22

What Leaders Can Learn From NASA’s Culture - With Brady Pyle.mp3

23

Performance vs. Potential: A Better Approach to Assessing Your People

24

Promoted But Not Prepared: What You're Underestimating (And How to Prepare)

25

Beyond High Performance : What Are You Really Capable Of With Jason Jaggard

26

5 Steps to Prepare for Your Year-End Review

27

The Business Mindset Managers Need But Rarely Learn

28

Walking on Eggshells What to Do When Your Boss Has a Fragile Ego

29

The End of “Nice Leadership”: How to Be Direct, Kind, and Respected

30

Received Though Feedback? Now What?

31

9 Counterintuitive Habits of Effective Managers

32

What's Happening to Leadership Public vs. Private Sector Leadership

33

Leadership Lessons from a CEO Who Built a Culture by Design - With Lawrence R. Armstrong

34

Are You Overexplaining When Leaders Should (and Shouldn't) Justify Themselves.mp3

35

The 5 Gaps Undermining Your Executive Presence

36

The Behaviors That Make or Break Team Performance

37

Lonely at the Top: Why Leadership Feels Isolating

38

Frustrated at Work? How to Lead Without Blowing Up or Bottling Up

39

Biohacking Executive Presence: Signals That Shape Perception - With Scott Hutcheson

40

From Engineer to Manager: The 4 Changes That Blindside Most New Engineering Managers

41

The Self-Sacrificing Manager : Breaking the Cycle of Doing Everyone's Work.mp3

42

Behind the Scenes of Growth: Coaching Insights for Leaders on the Rise

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Behind the Mask : The Hidden Drivers of Workplace Behavior

44

When Time Management Is a Culture Problem, Not a Calendar One

45

What it was like to be a new manager with Lisa, Susan and Dave

46

The Problem with Being Right How Certainty Limits Your Growth

47

Striking the Balance Between Empathy and Accountability - With Elise Boggs Morales

48

Caught in the Middle: Leading When You Disagree

49

Horizontal Leadership Creating Teams That Own Their Work

50

When Innovation Requires Disappointment AI Strategies and Leadership - With Kate O Neill

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What Kind of Leader Are You, Really The 7 Manager Archetypes.mp3

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Build a Team Culture You’re Proud Of - Even When the Company’s Isn’t

53

Decision Fog When Impostor Syndrome Clouds Your Judgement

54

The First-Time Manager Experience

55

How Leaders Are Actually Using AI Today

56

Going from Corporate to Startup: Challenges, Mindset Shifts, and Strategies

57

Resilience at Work: The Leadership Skill You Can’t Ignore

58

Team Leadership with Alison Coward

59

Networking Without the "Ugh!": Relationship-Building for Leaders

60

The Leadership Identity Shift: From Executor to Influencer

61

The Perfectionist Leadership Trap

62

The Conflict Playbook: Strategies Every Manager Should Know

63

Managing Up with Melody Wilding

64

Understanding Different Communication Styles

65

Decision-Making for Managers: The Fallacy of Consensus

66

Why “Figure It Out” Doesn’t Work: The Cost of Untrained Managers

67

From Director to VP: How to Build an Executive Mindset for a Promotion

68

Mental Traps That Keep Leaders Stuck

69

Beyond Values - Creating Explicit Leadership Expectations

70

Reading The Room

71

Working With People You Don't Like

72

Changing Behaviors and Achieving Goals

73

Difficult People at Work

74

Fostering a Growth Mindset: Learning Strategies for Leaders

75

Why Leaders Should Rethink Employee Departures - With Robert Glazer

76

AI-Powered People Leadership

77

Delegating: It's Actually About Managing Yourself

78

From Sports to Leadership: How Athletic Principles Elevate Leaders - With Christian Muntean

79

How to Lead Gen Z in the Workplace

80

How to Manage Managers

81

How to Set Growth Goals That Actually Drive Results

82

Trusting Your Team & Your Team Trusting You - With Charles Feltman

83

If You Don't Do Politics, Politics Will Do You

84

How to Lead Your Team Through Uncertainty and Change

85

When The Ego Dictates Priorities

86

Making Remote & Hybrid Teams Work - With Chris Dyer

87

Feeling Guilty About Your Technical Skills Fading

88

How to Actually Connect & Build Relationships at Work - With Moe Carrick

89

Embracing Opposition

90

Why I Wouldn't Hire You - 5 Reasons Hiring Managers Decline Candidates for Leadership Roles

91

Optimizing Work Dynamics - With Lotus Buckner

92

The Confidence Paradox - Why Capable People Doubt Themselves

93

Chess-Inspired Strategies for Better Strategic Thinking

94

Spending Your Time on the Right Things

95

How to Spot & Overcome a Victim Mindset

96

Mental Health Awareness for Leaders - A Panel Discussion

97

Executive Communication

98

GenAI for Managers

99

Challenging Patriarchal Norms in Leadership

100

Deciding About Deciding

101

How to Transform Good Teams Into Excellent Ones with Rusty Komori

102

3 Feedback Models Every Leader Should Master

103

Executive Mindset

104

Tricky Relationships at Work

105

Navigating Perfectionism in Leadership

106

Your Future Role (With AI)

107

Being Too Comfortable

108

Unable to Keep Up

109

When our Minds Trick Us Into Ineffective Leadership - Interview with Cayla Horey

110

Supporting Your First-Time Managers: Success Strategies

111

Elevating Your Communication Skills with GenAI

112

Letting Someone Go

113

Current-Day Lessons from Historical Leaders - with Moshik Temkin

114

When Someone Doesn't Like What You Did or Said

115

Better Listening - What It Actually Means

116

People-First Leadership & Unconventional Practices - with Shawn Stewart

117

Positioning Yourself for Senior Roles with Richard Triggs

118

6 AI Skills & 5 Must-Take Actions

119

Copycat Leadership

120

Changing Behaviors & Achieving Goals

121

Leveraging Emotions

122

Coachability

123

AI: 2024's Most Important Leadership Topic

124

Re-Release: Having a Leadership Playbook

125

Re-Release: Is Your Thinking Helping or Hurting You

126

Interviewing for Leadership Roles - With Farah Sharghi

127

Reactivity

128

Unfounded Worries About Leadership

129

Difficult People at Work

130

Leading Well Without Leadership Talent

131

Ownership Mindset

132

What My Most Successful Clients Have in Common

133

Creating Effective, Engaging, and Enjoyable Meetings - with Mamie Kanfer Stewart

134

Tough Moments of Leadership - A Q&A Session

135

Smart People Problems

136

Entitlement

137

Developing AI-Enabled Leader: A Panel Discussion

138

Transitioning Roles

139

Emotional Labor

140

How to Advance as a Leader

141

A Formula to Navigate Change, Overwork, & Confusion - with Sonya Shelton

142

Leading as an Introvert

143

The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace with Dr. Paul White

144

Re-release: Navigating Difficult Conversations at Work

145

Communicating With Numbers

146

Teaming in a Hybrid Word & Pay Equity with Sally Loftis

147

Dual Models Leaders Have to Navigate

148

Wanting Better

149

Calendar White Space

150

Re-Release: How to Deal With “Toxic” People at Work

151

Overdone Strengths

152

Being Assertive at Work

153

Re-Release: Is Your Thinking Helping or Hurting You?

154

4 Areas of Leadership to Develop

155

Mind Over Matter: Overcoming Resistance To Doing What You Don't Like

156

What if I don't like to lead?

157

Bouncing Back: Learning from Failure

158

Building Trust on Your Team - With Doug Thorpe

159

Retain Employees Who Didn't Get Promoted

160

Beyond Busy: Digging into the Real Reasons for Time Management Struggles

161

4 Insights from Running a New Manager Training Program

162

Leadership & Femininity

163

The Micromanaging Dilemma: Balancing Control and Trust

164

Having a Leadership Playbook

165

Leadership Perspectives - With Atlas Aultman

166

Reasons for Underperformance

167

Time Integrity

168

What Managers Need to Know about Engagement Surveys - With Sri Chellappa

169

Second-Guessing Ourselves & Decision Hangover

170

Stereotyping & Labeling

171

Always Be Hiring & Other Leadership Lessons - With Shane Foss

172

Emotions at Work

173

Prepare for The Worst

174

ChatGPT and 8 Ways it Can Help You at Work

175

How Managers Should Navigate Remote Work & IT Security - With Denis O'Shea

176

What Is Your Leadership Philosophy

177

Common Mistakes With 1-on-1 Meetings

178

5 Common Blind Spots Leaders Uncover in their 360 Assessments

179

How to Create a Strong Team Culture - With Gustavo Razzetti

180

Becoming the Boss & How to Lead in a Multigenerational Workplace - With Lindsey Pollak

181

How to Build Connection with Your Team Members - With Jess Podgajny

182

People Are Complicated! How This Team Uses Assessments to Work Better Together - With Amber Zertuche

183

How to Hold Career Conversations with Your Directs - With my Team Member Brandy

184

How to Increase Employee Engagement & Team Alignment- With Steve Curtin

185

What First-Time Managers Need to Unlearn & Do Differently to Succeed - With Jason Scott

186

User Guides (aka READMEs)

187

Creating a Feedback Culture - With Harrison Kim

188

When to Work With a Leadership Coach

189

How to Lead a Thriving Team with Kirsten Moorefield

190

Quit The Quiet Quitting - And What You as a Manager Can Do For Your Team

191

Navigating Conflict at Work - With Sarah Albo

192

Giving Feedback: 3 Common Mistakes

193

Boost Your Confidence, Fail Faster, & Win More Through Improv - With Erin Diehl

194

Are You Cut Out to Be a Leader?

195

5 Often Overlooked Steps When Onboarding a New Employee

196

When a Direct Resigns, What's Your Responsibility?

197

6 Things I Wished All Managers Knew

198

Your Relationship with Your Job

199

Re-Release: 12 Unspoken Rules of Management

200

The "Zoom Ceiling"

201

Over-Identifying With Your Job

202

Burnout, Boundaries, and Saying "No" - With Teresa Vozza

203

Time Management is Pain Management

204

The Influence Equation - With Kevin Kepple

205

The Risks of Delaying Your Leadership Training

206

Misconceptions About Leadership Coaching

207

What's Compassionate Leadership?

208

3 Mistakes Managers Make During 1-on-1 Meetings

209

Stop The Advice Trap (Book Excerpt)

210

What Is Your Leadership Philosophy?

211

Train Your Thinking to Become a Better Leader

212

Protect Your Confidence as a Leader

213

How to Handle Criticism at Work

214

Become Great at Hiring - With Tatiyana Cure

215

People-Pleasing Leaders: An Oxymoron

216

What It Was Like to Be a New Manager - with Lisa, Susan, and Dave

217

Stop Asking for Direction

218

Leading a Hybrid Team

219

How to Get Approval for a Professional Development Budget

220

What Makes Us Feel Fulfilled at Work - With Bruna De Palo

221

Do You Validate or Elevate Your Directs?

222

The Power of Questions

223

The Shadow Sides of Being a "Type A" Leader

224

How Men Can Become Effective Allies in the Workplace

225

How Coaching Helped This Director of Engineering - With Joshua Samberg

226

Leading Older People

227

The Entry Interview

228

The 3 Steps to Achieving Your Career Goals in 2022

229

Re-Release: The First 30 Days as a New Manager

230

Re-Release: How To Negotiate Your Pay Raise

231

How Stoicism Can Inspire Mindful Leadership - With CIO Michael McGill

232

12 Unspoken Rules of Management

233

Having High Standards

234

Leaders' Exhaustion

235

How to Overcome Your Brain's Fixation on Bad Things

236

How to Change Behaviors and Grow as a Leader

237

How to Create a Strategy for Your Team

238

Being Caught In The Middle of Vax Mandates

239

Curiosity: Your Doorway to Positive Relationships and Collaborative Leadership with Dr. Alison Horstmeyer

240

Is It Me or Is It Them?

241

6 Often-Overlooked Traits That Separate Great Leaders From The Rest

242

How My APS Method Helps (New) Managers Succeed

243

How Great Leaders Control Their Egos

244

Manage Your Mind Before You Manage People

245

How to Fast Track Your Leadership Without Extra Stress & Long Hours

246

How to Deal With "Toxic" People at Work

247

Why Coach When Giving Advice Is So Much Easier?

248

Stop Feeling Responsible For How Other People Feel

249

How Do You Measure Your Own Performance?

250

The Attitudes & Principles of Leadership

251

Managing a High-Performer

252

New Managers: Being "Productive" Means Something Different Now

253

3 Tips to Influence Other People's Decisions

254

4 Stoic Principles That Will Make You a Better Leader

255

From IC to Manager - 4 Main Shifts

256

Building Confidence

257

6 Warning Signs That Your New Hire Won't Work Out

258

The First 30 Days as a New Manager

259

Attitude & Leadership

260

Busting 3 Myths of Leadership (for New Managers)

261

Hiring Best Practices for Managers

262

3 Big Mistakes New Managers Make & How to Avoid Them

263

How Not To Micromanage

264

5 Strategies to Be More Present as a Leader

265

Leaders: Commit to Yourself! - An Interview with Ela Staniak

266

Great Leaders Unlearn These 3 Lessons Once Learned In School

267

Dealing With Failure

268

Uncovering Blindspots & The Johari Window

269

How The Myers-Briggs Assessment Can Help You Lead

270

What Causes Imposter Syndrome?

271

Want to be Liked or Respected? Why it's the Wrong Question to Ask

272

How to Be More Focused and Get Less Distracted

273

Is Your Thinking Helping or Hurting You?

274

How to Run 1-on-1 Meetings Your Direct Reports Actually Enjoy

275

From Bud to Boss - A Coaching Conversation with Jen

276

Three Ways to Learn From Mistakes and Failure (and Not Get Knocked Down)

277

The 3 Steps to Reach Your Next Career Goal in 2021

278

How to Have Difficult Conversations that Inspire and Motivate - An Interview with Aleta Maxwell

279

Own Your Leadership - A Coaching Call with Sue

280

Become a Strategic Thinker

281

Holiday Edition: Gift Ideas for Professional Growth

282

Creating a Social Contract as a Team

283

Should I Stay or Should I Go? - A Coaching Conversation With Elaine

284

Accelerating Careers for Women in Data - An Interview with Sadie St. Lawrence

285

Master Any Conflict Situation

286

How to Support your Team Post Election

287

The Two Common Blindspots Managers Have and How to Overcome Them

288

Why Having a Sponsor at Work Will Help You Get Ahead

289

How to Negotiate a Pay Raise

290

How to confidently speak and present yourself online or offline - with Ravi Rajani

291

The Reason Why You're Feeling Stuck

292

"Can I Be Friends With My Direct Reports?"

293

How to Become a Better Leader with DISC

294

Using LinkedIn To Attract Job Opportunities - With Chris Villanueva

295

Overcoming Imposter Syndrome

296

Moving into Leadership - With Phil Burgess

297

The Importance of Trust in Leadership - With Brian Harman

298

How to Ask for Feedback

299

Embrace & Express Your True Self With De'Nicea Hilton

300

How to Navigate Negative Emotions at Work

301

Coping With The Crisis - How to use your body intelligence to make faster & better decisions

302

How to Eliminate Distractions

303

Unconscious Biases in The Workplace - An Interview

304

Why Telling People What To Do Often Doesn't Work

305

A Powerful Perspective From a Black Woman

306

How To Win In Office Politics

307

How to Bring More Diversity & Inclusion to Your Workplace - An Interview

308

Being Visible in a Remote Work Environment

309

How to Delegate More Often & More Effectively

310

Navigating Difficult Conversations at Work

311

The 4 Ways to Keep Your Team Motivated & Engaged Even While Working Remotely

312

Key Insights From Our COVID-19 Leadership Survey

313

From Frazzled to Focused While Working From Home - with Alexis Haselberger

314

How to Focus on What Matters Most While Everything Seems to Be Changing

315

How to Best Support Your Team During a Time of Uncertainty & Change