Management Insights

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on No Purpose, No Leadership with today’s guest, Ryan Gottfredson. Leadership experts have found that less than 20% of executives have a clear purpose for their leadership. In this podcast, we discuss the essential role leadership plays in effective leadership.

Tune in to the management insights podcast with today’s guest Gerry McNamara as we discuss how to use online tools to better manage online and hybrid classes.  The days of college classes meeting in classrooms two or three times a week for lectures is going the way of gasoline powered cars – an increasing number of folks are moving away from it and most know its day as the dominant model are waning.  Increasingly, classes are going to hybrid models where classes meet only occasionally or going fully online.  Today, we are going to be talking about digital tools instructors can use to help facilitate these classes.

Tune into the Management Insights podcast today as we discuss Why People Skills Matter Most for Student Career Success with our guest Tim Baldwin from Indiana University.

In this podcast Professor Baldwin discusses the most critical people skills and the research evidence that links such skills to both personal and organizational success.  He’ll share tips on how to build the people skills of the students in your courses. 

Tune in to Management Insights podcast on Methods for Developing Students’ Career Readiness Competencies with award winning teachers, Angelo Kinicki, Patrick Soleymani, and Denise Breaux Soignet.  Employers want to hire college graduates who are ready to deliver results, and research has uncovered a competency gap:  The majority of students are not career ready.  The presenters discuss the need to develop students career readiness and offer useful techniques for developing career readiness competencies in the classroom.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on "Becoming a Leader Others Want to Follow" with today’s guest, Ryan Gottfredson. In this podcast, we discuss an oft-overlooked, but absolutely critical factor, for leaders to consider and develop in order to become a leader others want to follow.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on It's Time to Revamp our Teaching for Gen Zs with today’s guest, Angelo Kinicki.  Employers and students are two key forces for changing how we teach today’s students.  Angelo Kinicki will review the impetus for these forces for change and discuss how we might adapt our teaching style and approach.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Leverage Strategy in the Exploding Digital Economy with today’s guest, Gerry McNamara.  The business press is full of articles on how firms use data and how industries are being transformed by digital technologies.  Today, we are going to be talking about how this digital economy is changing the nature of business and how managers and firms can navigate their way through this transformation.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Active Learning? Critical Thinking? Research says - Think Journaling! with today’s guest, Jody Tolan.  LEARN by Doing! In this podcast, Jody will discuss how to engage students in their own development using reflective journaling exercises to gain real experience applying the knowledge and skills they are learning!  You will hear the why, the how and the impact of this effective action learning technique that makes connections between experiences and the classroom and develops critical thinking.

Tune in to the Management Insights podcast on Tips for Online Course Design with today’s guest, Elina Ibrayeva.  Elina Ibrayeva PhD, is an associate professor of practice at the Management Department at the College of Business at the University of Nebraska Lincoln and an expert in online teaching. In this podcast she shares some insights on effective course design from her online courses.  Elina recently received two MBA Distance Teaching Awards as voted by MBA distance students.

Tune in to the management insights podcast on Trust & Negotiation Go Hand and Hand with today’s guest, world renowned author, Roy Lewicki.  Today, Roy shares insights into the essence of negotiation a critical skill everyone should know. He outlines the dilemma of trust and honesty and the negotiation dance and emphasizes why trust is important, different kinds of trust, and how to repair trust if broken.