Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training

On this Management Development Unlocked replay, Eric interviews Roger Martin, co-founder and CEO of ThriveMore Brands. ThriveMore is a platform company with franchise brands under its umbrella, including RockBox Fitness and beem® Light Sauna. They also have a nutrition company and are discussing bringing an overseas franchise concept to America. The company employs 27 people in its home office.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Roger Martin’s company, ThriveMore Brands, and an overview of what it does.
2. His tips for overcoming imposter syndrome and why you’re probably not growing if you haven’t experienced it.
3. What competency-selective interviewing tactics are, and how they contrast with just using your gut to hire.
4. The impact of AI in the workplace and what makes it a powerful tool.
5. How managers deal with failure, take responsibility for it, and work to fix the problem at the speed of trust.
6. Psychological safety and the value of feeling safe to make mistakes and grow.
7. The franchise brands that make up ThriveMore Brands and the goal of those brands.

Connect with Roger Martin:

LinkedIn

ThriveMore Brands

Instagram

TikTok

Twitter/X

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On this episode of Management Development Unocked, Eric welcomes Brian Nelson-Palmer back to the show for a friendly debate. Brian is the founder of Productivity Gladiator and teaches personal, practical productivity skills. Brian’s target audience is recently promoted office people managers. Brian and Eric have different productivity styles, and this episode is all about their dueling opinions on various ways of remaining productive, including calendars, task lists, what time work should start, and more. While they may disagree on their methodology, Eric and Brian share a passion for getting things done in a timely manner.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. The five things Eric and Brian Nelson-Palmer are in disagreement about.
2. Using a calendar for tasks and events (Eric) versus Brian’s use of a calendar and a separate task list.
3. The paradigm differences that may make Eric’s method work for one person but Brian’s method for someone else.
4. Planning every facet of your day versus leaving room in your schedule to remain flexible.
5. Why Eric works out in the afternoon but starts work very early.
6. Brian’s preference to sleep in later and work out earlier in the day.
7. Brian’s explanation that meditation does not work for him other than getting back to sleep.
8. The benefits of meditation that Eric loves.
9. Why Brian loves Amazon’s Subscribe and Save and Eric’s dislike of it.

Connect with Brian Nelson-Palmer:

LinkedIn

Website

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Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked comes from chapters five and six of Eric’s bestselling book, Lead Like a Pro: The Essential Guide for New Managers. These chapters outline how to perform a SWOT analysis of your team and the importance of building trust with your team members. Eric shares how to implement the Tuckman model of team development, the five dysfunctions of a team, how to overcome or avoid the five dysfunctions, and eight values to incorporate into your leadership style. Finally, Eric shares some important takeaways from The SPEED of Trust by Stephen R. Covey.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. How to perform a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis to focus on your team’s internal and external factors.
2. Holding a team meeting to discuss a SWOT analysis together.
3. An alternative method of a SWOT analysis suggested by the Harvard Business Review.
4. Performing SWOT analysis regularly for your team and yourself in conjunction with the brainstorming methodology mentioned in chapter three.
5. Why using a SWOT analysis can help you identify where to focus your coaching efforts and training programs and develop a plan to improve team performance and achieve goals.
6. Implementing the Tuckman model of team development (forming, storming, norming, and performing) and what to expect.
7. Setting expectations with your team as you use the Tuckman model.
8. The importance of building trust within your team.
9. The essential concepts all managers should know to build trust with a team and how it can benefit managers.
10. The five dysfunctions of a team.
11. Overcoming or avoiding the five dysfunctions of a team.
12. The key to a successful team.
13. Why managers must lead by example and demonstrate a commitment to the team.
14. The eight values to incorporate into your leadership style.
15. Takeaways from The SPEED of Trust you can use with your team.

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This episode of Management Development Unlocked features Brandon Birkmeyer. Brandon is a former Madison Avenue agency executive who worked on accounts like Coca-Cola and Apple. He left the corporate world six years ago and now does corporate training and speaking. Brandon is the author of the book, “Front & Center Leadership: How Leaders Can Use Personal Branding to Stand Out and How You Can Too.” He is also the host of the podcast “Brands on Brands.”

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Brandon Birkmeyer’s book on personal branding in the corporate space, “Front & Center Leadership.”
2. The three components of a successful personal brand.
3. Brandon’s catalyst for writing his book and leveraging your human potential to become a personal brand.
4. How the principles laid out in his book apply to the future of management development.
5. His steps for bringing leaders to the forefront with practice.
6. Who Brandon’s book is for and why new managers can benefit from it most.
7. Overcoming the reluctance to build a personal brand.
8. The three types of reluctance.

Connect with Brandon Birkmeyer:

Website

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Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Dr. Phyllis Quinlan, president and CEO of MFW Consultants. Phyllis has 40+ years of experience in the nursing field and is a certified professional coach, which she weaves into her consulting firm. She specializes in helping leaders create healthy work environments, building a sense of resilience and well-being in staff using emotional intelligence and the principles of healthy work environments.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Phyllis Quinlan’s role as president and CEO of MSW consultants, her background as a nurse, and her work as a coach.
2. The components of a healthy workplace environment and the part an emotionally intelligent leader plays in that.
3. Civility at work, why it matters, and what incivility looks like.
4. Phyllis’s tips for creating a culture of civility and citizenship alongside a healthy workplace.
5. The differences between bullies and individuals who are chronically uncivil.
6. Why leadership finds it challenging to address bullying behaviors on their teams.
7. The importance of documentation.
8. What you can expect from Phyllis’s book, “Bringing Shadow Behavior into the Light of Day.”

Connect with Phyllis Quinlan:

LinkedIn

MFW Consultants

Bringing Shadow Behavior into the Light of Day book

[email protected]

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On this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes Anca Enache, founder of 3P Impact Consulting. Anca helps purpose-driven small- and medium-sized companies create a competitive advantage by revealing the environmental, social, and governance risks and opportunities that may impact their business.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Anca Enache’s work in sustainability alongside purpose-driven companies.
2. The definition of a business continuity plan at the team level and how it can help a company.
3. A real-life example of the benefits of a continuity plan.
4. The six components of an effective team-level business continuity plan.
5. The steps required to implement a continuity plan.
6. Anca’s work as a consultant.

Connect with Anca Enache:

LinkedIn

Website

Email

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On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric shares part three of this six-part series from his book, Lead Like a Pro: The Essential Guide for New Managers. Featuring chapters three and four, you’ll hear why it’s important to set SMART goals for your team, Eric’s brainstorming guidelines for setting team goals, and why you should be performing weekly one-on-one meetings with team members. Eric also shares why you must learn how to delegate effectively and how it can improve your relationship with your team. You’ll also hear about the six levels of initiative that can help bring out the best in everyone, along with Eric’s tips for helping you decide what to delegate.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Creating clear goals for your team and how you benefit from them.
2. Understanding the purpose behind a goal and the four components behind a good goal.
3. SMART goals: specific, measurable, achievable (or aligned), relevant (or resourced), and time-bound (or trackable).
4. The benefits of SMART goals for new managers and how to set them in three simple steps.
5. Questions you can ask to identify a SMART goal.
6. Eric’s eight brainstorming guidelines for setting team goals.
7. Setting one-on-one weekly meetings with team members to make progress toward goals.
8. Altering SMART goals to fit your organization’s needs.
9. Learning to delegate tasks to your team effectively and how it can improve your relationship with your team.
10. The benefits of effective delegation and some reasons managers fail to delegate.
11. The ten commandments for effective delegation.
12. Delegating the right tasks to the right people and how to determine if a team member is ready for the task at hand.
13. The six levels of initiative, encouraging higher-level thinking from team members, and bringing out the best in everyone.
14. Eric’s tips for deciding what could be delegated to your team.

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Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Stacey Caster, co-founder and CEO of North Executive Advisors. Stacey specializes in leadership development and executive coaching. She is also a speaker, podcast host, and author.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Stacey Caster’s background in senior leadership and her role today as the CEO and co-founder of North Executive Advisors.
2. What’s different about leading leaders versus leading individual contributors.
3. The leadership skills required to lead leaders and why it requires forecasting farther into the future.
4. Building a network outside of your four walls to understand what your competitors are doing.
5. The importance of emotional intelligence in leadership.
6. Leveling up your career development from becoming a leader to becoming a leader of leaders.
7. Marketing your personal brand inside your company to position yourself for leadership roles.
8. What good leaders can do to strengthen a business.
9. The mistakes a leader can make that will crash a business.
10. Stacey’s upcoming book, “The Leadership Navigator: Chart Your Course to Leadership Mastery.”

Connect with Stacey Caster:

Website

Book

North Executive Advisors

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On today’s Management Development Unlocked, Eric interviews Eloisa Marquez-Gonzalez, an operation strategist and advisor to green tech organizations. Eloisa helps them design their operations, and once they’ve grown, she helps those companies streamline to ensure their impact is growing along with their company. Another fun fact about Eloisa is that she is a former professional tennis player who eventually left that career to pursue an engineering degree.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Eloisa Marquez-Gonzalez’s position as an operation strategist and advisor focused on green tech organizations.
2. Her career in professional tennis, a pivot to engineering, and finally to the climate space.
3. The differences between innovation and continuous improvement.
4. What the green tech sector encompasses, and what green tech operations are.
5. The metrics that differentiate green tech ops from traditional ops.
6. Creating an environment of collaboration where people feel comfortable bringing new ideas to leadership.
7. The steps managers in any industry can take to integrate sustainability practices into existing operations.
8. Eloisa’s green tech operations roundtable and what she hopes to accomplish with it.
9. How to foster curiosity and creativity within your team.

Connect with Eloisa Marquz-Gonzalez:

LinkedIn

Walking Tree

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Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Kerri Burchill, author of “Leading Out of the ASKhole™ Trap.” Kerri is a leadership consultant who started her career in education. She specializes in helping leaders and teams in messy, dynamic situations.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Kerri Burchill’s role as a leadership consultant and how her first career in education led her to where she is today.
2. The definition of an askhole and how an askhole can trap you.
3. The importance of active listening and why senior leaders and experienced managers need to actively listen to their teams.
4. Her advice for avoiding the constant spin and getting stuck which leads to more issues that need to be resolved.
5. Kerri’s favorite part of being a leadership consultant.
6. What you can expect from Kerri’s book, “Leading Out of the ASKhole™ Trap.”
7. The one leadership skill everyone should have.

Connect with Kerri Burchill:

Kerri Burchill’s website

Leading Out of the ASKhole™ Trap

LinkedIn

Instagram

Facebook

YouTube

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