Employee experience is misrepresented in the workplace. Keep listening to learn about what the employee experience is and how to embrace an evaluation culture.

Managing remote employees.

Nov 12th, 2019 18m 58s

Remote work is more common than ever before. Listen now to learn how to set clear expectations and better manage remote employees.

Handling employee turnover.

Oct 29th, 2019 19m 44s

Turnover is an unfortunate but inevitable part of managing employees. Listen now to learn how managers can help navigate the potential negative impact.

Diversity and inclusion.

Oct 15th, 2019 15m 24s

Managers are key to enforcing diversity and inclusion strategies. Listen now to learn what can be done if your organization is resistant to these efforts.

Building trust in the workplace.

Oct 2nd, 2019 17m 35s

As a manager, it's important to be constantly building trust in the workplace. Listen to this podcast to learn how to navigate and overcome trust issues.

Exploring the dark side of job roles.

Sep 17th, 2019 16m 48s

This episode explores the idea of what a role is, as well as the dark side of job roles in the form of role overload, strain, conflict, underload, and ambiguity.

Giving performance feedback with the employee in mind.

Sep 3rd, 2019 21m 7s

In this interview, we explore ways to navigate the performance feedback process, taking the manager’s ego out of the picture, rethinking how we view the performance improvement plan, and the skill gap versus will gap.

How to handle stress at work.

Aug 20th, 2019 18m 24s

This episode explores a method for stress management in the workplace, as well as some common causes of workplace stress and how you can help your team navigate those issues.

Helping employees avoid job burnout.

Aug 6th, 2019 16m 30s

In this interview, we cover different aspects of job burnout:How people managers can help their teams navigate or avoid burnoutThe importance of being curious about team membersHelping teams build resilience

Managing emotions and emotional vulnerability. [Ep. 21]

Jul 23rd, 2019 17m 48s

This episode explores the complexities of managing emotions and emotional vulnerability at work, as well as healthy and unhealthy emotional cultures within organizations.

Emotions in the workplace have an image problem. [Ep. 20]

Jul 9th, 2019 18m 22s

This episode explores the most common positive emotions employees feel at work, the most common negative emotions employees feel, and negative moral emotions.

What are drivers of employee engagement, and why do they matter? [Ep. 19]

Jun 25th, 2019 18m 47s

This episode explores what drivers actually are, the top drivers of employee engagement, and what drives manager effectiveness.

How are you setting boundaries at work? [Ep. 18]

Jun 11th, 2019 17m 49s

This episode explores the mystery of boundaries and setting boundaries at work, as well as the mishap of workplace rules.

Rethink change management. [Ep. 17]

May 28th, 2019 17m 37s

This episode explores the mystery of the change management process and potential mishaps of change management, paying especially close attention to the Knoster model for managing complex change.

Motivate employees by thinking about their needs: part 2. [Ep. 16]

May 14th, 2019 19m 57s

This episode continues to explore how you can motivate employees, first by reviewing relational and developmental employee needs and then combining all the needs discussed in this and the previous episode.

Motivate employees by thinking about their needs: part 1. [Ep. 15]

Apr 30th, 2019 21m 4s

This episode explores how you can motivate employees, first by reviewing Maslow's hierarchy of needs and then covering essential and procedural employee needs.

How can you give better, SMART employee recognition? [Ep. 14]

Apr 16th, 2019 17m 42s

This episode explores how you can give better, SMART recognition to your team members.

How to make your SMART goals even SMARTER. [Ep. 13]

Apr 2nd, 2019 19m 52s

This episode explores the history and framework of SMART goals, and goes deeper into SMARTER goal setting.

The employee life cycle part 3: exits and employee turnover. [Ep. 12]

Mar 19th, 2019 17m 10s

This episode explores the mystery of some common reasons for turnover, the mishap of how turnover data are handled, and the mystery of how best to handle firing employees.

The employee life cycle part 2: tenured employees and the tenure curve. [Ep. 11]

Mar 5th, 2019 18m 4s

This episode explores the mystery of the tenure curve, which covers employee engagement across four groups of employees with differing levels of tenure.

The employee life cycle part 1: new hires and onboarding. [Ep. 10]

Feb 19th, 2019 19m 42s

This episode explores the mystery of five stages of the new hire and onboarding experience, which include orientation, clarification, adjustment, calibration, and connection.

You can get more out of your team meetings. [Ep. 9]

Feb 5th, 2019 16m 28s

This episode explores the mystery of how to view meetings, the mystery of how to get the most out of your team meetings, and the mishap of miscommunication during meetings.

Miscommunication at work - it's not me, it's you? [Ep. 8]

Jan 22nd, 2019 14m 10s

This episode explores two mishaps: the first is thinking that miscommunication isn’t because of me, it’s because of other people, and the second is miscommunication during 1-on-1 performance conversations.

How can you bridge the GAP to resolve conflicts in your team? [Ep. 7]

Jan 8th, 2019 17m 45s

This episode explores the mishap of poorly handling conflicts within your team, the mystery of the GAP model of conflict, and the mystery of how best to respond to conflict using the GAP model.