Casual Business

For employees to succeed, managers have to willing & able to manage those employees to the best versions of themselves. It's not always easy and sometimes it takes a ton of work to unlock something blocking an employee from being amazing in their role. 

It always comes back to a question of willingness and ability when we evaluate someone at their role. Using this framework, we can unlock what may be holding them back from finding true passion and uncover key insights on how to help them perform well in the future. 

Often we attribute value to something that prevents us from giving ourselves permission to do something else. For us that is working and working a lot instead of taking time to relax, especially in moments when it has been earned. Take a few minutes today to give yourself permission to do something you need to do that you know you should. Your soul will thank you for it. 

Are you burned out? Has COVID made you less interesting? Are you basically working all the time? Here are three easy ways to get out of out COVID burnout and get your amazing life back!

Bottom line, change is good for all of us. And in today's world, change is the norm. It challenges our world view and all the things we think are normal or acceptable and in our work life this can spark creativity and have massive impact on an organization. You can fight it or make friends with it and lean in. Where are you?

Meetings are truly the bane of the corporate life and meetings where nothing is decided are the worst! Listen in as we discuss the three things that make meetings work and how to think through them before you start inviting everyone to a meeting that has the potential to waste everyone's time!

We have talked about framework thinking for a long time, but this episode we break it down for you to the most simple of levels and then apply it to how to think about meetings. It's the first step in a long journey we will be taking over the next year exploring how to think in frameworks and how helpful they can be in simplifying problems and the outcomes you are hoping to achieve by solving them. 

The CIA wrote a handbook back in 1944 aimed at helping citizens disrupt the productivity of their company to help the war effort. It is amazing how close some of the behaviours the CIA lists are still alive and well today in the corporate world. Listen in and learn about what these behaviours look like and what you need to do to help save your organization from hostile takeover. 

We go back to what made Casual Business famous....e-mail and the five lines or less concept! Enjoy! 

Having led multiple large organizations from Amazon, to UiPath and Microsoft Gavin has honed his skills over his career to make him the leader he is today. From hybrid working, to board games we run the gambit with Gavin and we promise you this podcast does not disappoint.