Develop Great Managers

As a manager, you need to lead others. To do this effectively, they must believe in the mission, vision, and challenges in front of them. They have to buy your story. They need to believe you.

Some people think this means you have to be a cheerleader. You have to get up, turn on the energy and charm, and convince your team of what you need them to do.  This can work iff (if and only if) that is your normal style. If it is not, they will see right through it and will not be on board. They might say they are… but their hearts will not be in it.

Instead, what you need to do is communicate in your own way. If you are deeply analytical, use this approach. If you are an introvert and prefer 1:1 conversations, do that.

“Just Be What You Is” simply means be who you are, be you!

Now is the time to prepare for the new normal.

In this podcast, I share the five biggest changes that are likely to be a part of the plan to go back to work. These are:

You have learned to manage work-at-home employees. You know how to manage employees in the office. I share a number of things that will help you in this new normal.

I hope that you enjoy!

In this podcast, I talk to Laura Ortman, President and Chief Revenue Officer for Cologix, about her career journey. Without going into detail, they are a “data centers of tomorrow” company.

Laura has had a great career, learning and taking on challenges along the way. She started in sales and worked in or managed all aspects of sales, account management, business development, software program, and technical management, customer support and success, revenue and renewals, and operations. She has worked for SOS Technical Services, Lockheed Martin, Jeppesen (a Boeing Company), VMware, Equinix, and Cologix.

I got to know Laura while at VMware. Our paths crossed a few times so I got to know Laura, but we never had an opportunity to work directly. All that I knew for sure is that she was an amazing manager and leader.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I interview Laura Ortman, President and Chief Revenue Officer for Cologix. Without going into detail, they are a “data centers of tomorrow” company.

Laura has had a great career, learning and taking on challenges along the way. She started in sales and worked in or managed all aspects of sales, account management, business development, software program, and technical management, customer support and success, revenue and renewals, and operations. She has worked for SOS Technical Services, Lockheed Martin, Jeppesen (a Boeing Company), VMware, Equinix, and Cologix.

I got to know Laura while at VMware. Our paths crossed a few times so I got to know Laura, but we never had an opportunity to work directly. All that I knew for sure is that she was an amazing manager and leader.

I am very happy to have her on the podcast.

In this podcast, I talk to John Gilmartin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Business Unit at VMware, about his career journey.

John has been in high tech for all of his career. He started as a consultant at Marakon Associates, moved to Dell as a brand manager, then to VMware in product management. He left VMware to try working at a small company. He joined Coraid to run product marketing. He then returned to VMware and has quickly grown his responsibility to the role that he has today.

John has a computer science degree from Princeton and took some time out during his career to go back and get his MBA from Harvard.

I got to know John at VMware and worked for him for a couple of years. John is an incredibly well-rounded leader and manager that does a great job of balancing the urgent with the important, all while remaining incredibly calm.

I hope you enjoy!

In this podcast, I interview John Gilmartin, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Business Unit at VMware.

John has been in high tech for all of his career. He started as a consultant at Marakon Associates, moved to Dell as a brand manager, then to VMware in product management. He left VMware to try working at a small company. He joined Coraid to run product marketing. He then returned to VMware and has quickly grown his responsibility to the role that he has today.

John has a computer science degree from Princeton and took some time out during his career to go back and get his MBA from Harvard.

I got to know John at VMware and worked for him for a couple of years. John is an incredibly well-rounded leader and manager that does a great job of balancing the urgent with the important, all while remaining incredibly calm.

I know you will get a lot out of my conversation with John!

Welcome to the latest Develop Great Managers podcast focused on helping managers with their work-at-home employees.

Work at home has never been more important. Learn from the experts how to evaluate if work from home makes sense, and if it does, how to ensure success.

I hope you find this valuable!

This is the third of three podcasts on Office Politics - something important to everyone.

I have broken the topic into three parts: Introduction; How You Can Be Successful; and How to Manage Your Team. In today’s podcast, I will cover "How To Manage Your Team."

I cover how you can be a role model, minimizing politics in your team, aligning and supporting the company culture, championing members of your team, recognizing and supporting diversity, and providing positive transparency.

I hope you enjoy!

This is the second of three podcasts on Office Politics - something important to everyone.

I have broken the topic into three parts: Introduction; How You Can Be Successful; and How to Manage Your Team. In today’s podcast, I will cover "Introduction."

I cover being thoughtful, reading the system (company), building a good reputation, and finding common ground.

I hope you enjoy!

Now for the topic that all of you have been waiting for - Office Politics!

I have broken the topic into three parts: Introduction; How You Can Be Successful; and How to Manage Your Team. In today’s podcast, I will cover "Introduction."

I will give you a definition, share the reality of office politics, give you a view into good and bad, and end with some great examples.

I hope you enjoy!