Management 101

Management 101

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Management 101 episodes

  • Mistakes I've Made As A Manager, And What I Learned From Them
    Every manager makes mistakes. The best ones turn them into learning experiences. And not to toot my own horn or anything, but I've had a lot of learning experiences. In today's episode of Management 101, I talk through five of the key mistakes I've made as a manager, and what I think can be learned from them.
    48 min
  • How to Delegate and Empower
    Leaders who want their companies to succeed need to figure out how to delegate the things they are not best suited to do, and then they need to empower individuals to take on those new responsibilities. Delegating and empowering done the right way can lead to companies getting more efficient as they scale. Doing either of them wrong can lead to slowdown and runaway projects. In today's episode, I talk through why delegation is important, how to do it effectively, and some of my own learning experiences with doing it poorly so you can skip to doing it right the first time.
    41 min
  • How To Create Good Company Culture

    Company culture isn't built through a set of core values pasted on a wall. Today's episode focuses on how company culture gets created, what good company culture looks like, and what you may be doing as a leader that is causing problems in your company's culture.

    43 min
  • How To Be A Good Leader + How To Be An Analytical Leader

    Good leadership today requires taking an analytical approach to your organization. In today's episode, I chat with Bill Zhang, a senior operations leader at Galileo, about what it really means to be a good leader, what it really means to be "analytical," and how anyone can become those things.

    59 min
  • How To Manage Your Time

    Managers and employees alike struggle with prioritization and time management. Today's episode focuses on the main traps that cause employees to manage time poorly, the indicators that you may need to step in as a manager, and some great ways to improve your own time management.

    42 min
  • How To Set Up, Hire For, And Manage A Marketing Function
    As your company grows, a strong marketing function becomes increasingly essential. But for many leaders, setting one up can be daunting. In the latest episode of Management 101, we sit down with startup marketing expert Austin Gunter to discuss the ins and outs of creating and managing an effective marketing org. From identifying the right time to build a marketing function, to hiring the right people and maintaining a successful strategy, we discuss insights that any business leader can benefit from. Don't miss out on this invaluable knowledge - listen to Management 101 today!
    52 min
  • How to run even more effective meetings
    Running meetings is a part of any leader's job. Run them well and you get alignment, clarity, and buy-in. Run them poorly or let them go off the rails, and you get disengagement and wasted time. The last episode about meetings continues to be by far the most popular one, so I'm back with more tips and tricks to make you an amazing meeting host!
    32 min
  • How To Manage Employee Professional Growth and Hold Professional Development Conversations
    Setting the right expectations for your employees is a key to their success as well as your company's. So is checking in on how they're performing against those expectations in a productive manner and on an appropriate cadence. And what do you do when you and your employee are not aligned on how they're performing? On today's episode of Management 101, I discuss these topics alongside a former colleague and current Head of People at Nuvocargo, Lauren Burdick.
    57 min
  • How To Make Your Employees Top Performers

    Your employees are not just going to be amazing performers by default. You as a manager play a huge role is making them great. In today's episode I am joined by special guest and fantastic manager: Spencer Fertig, CEO of Bar None Games. Spencer and I discuss what you can do as a manager to make your employees top performers, and also what you should avoid doing.

    1 hr 2 min
  • Firing an Employee: How, When, and Why

    Today's episode is going to be about one of the harder topics in management and leadership: firing employees. We'll talk through why to fire an employee, when to do so, and how to go about doing it.

    42 min

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