Modern Mentor

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Modern Mentor is your guide to leadership and communication, helping you craft a workplace environment you can feel good about. She’ll share tips to help you balance your work and personal life, effectively invest your time, and be mindful about where you’re devoting your energy. Let Modern Mentor help you navigate your path to success—however you define it.

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Why Meetings Are Still Awfu...

11.28.2023

Meetings have been a hot topic for ages. Too many, too unproductive. Feels like we should have fixed them by now. But we haven’t. Here are some strategies to try if you’re still drowning in meetings that go nowhere.

Modern Mentor episodes:

11.28.2023 Why Meetings Are Still Awful and How to Fix Them Meetings have been a hot topic for ages. Too many, too unproductive. Feels like we should have fixed them by now. But we haven’t. Here are some strategies to try if you’re still drowning in meetings that go nowhere.
11.21.2023 How to Communicate in a Hybrid World: Interview with Laura Fravel How to communicate - for impact, for connection, and with purpose - has gotten complicated in recent years. Communication expert Laura Fravel joins Modern Mentor for a conversation on how to do it well in a hybrid world.
11.14.2023 How to juggle when I have no choice It’s a frantic season in a frantic year. I know almost no one whose plate isn’t overflowing. So if overwhelm is the only option, how can we make the best of it?
11.07.2023 How to navigate a season of layoffs There’s so much uncertainty in the market these days. But whether the prospect of a layoff threatens you with a bruised ego, true financial insecurity, or anything in between, there are some constructive things you can be doing.
10.31.2023 Communicate to activate your team Communication is one of the most critical leadership skills in the modern workplace. But its job is to do so much more than just transmit information. Leaders who communicate with an intent to engage end up with, well, more engaged ...
10.24.2023 Your team needs a year-end review Teams today are running at a million miles an hour just to keep the train on the tracks. So as we approach year-end, let’s talk about why – and how – to run a team performance review. To determine what ...
10.17.2023 How to Prioritize Using ICE When we’re swimming in great ideas—too many priorities and possibilities—we need a way to effectively prioritize. The ICE framework is a simple way to assess an idea’s impact, confidence, and ease—helping us manage our limited resources wisely while delivering big ...
10.10.2023 Move Fast and Fix Things with Frances Frei In this conversation with Frances Frei, Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School, we ideas leaders can use to move fast, build trust, and accelerate excellence at work.
10.03.2023 Golden circle your way to a winning Q4 Frankly, I think the secret to a winning Q4 is getting one’s team—or oneself—focused, aligned, and on purpose.
09.26.2023 How to have meetings that shouldn’t have been emails Oh, man. Poor meetings. How have they come to be so evil?
09.19.2023 How stinky fish drive great team conversations at work Because, you know, a stinky fish stinks.
09.12.2023 6 ways to influence without authority It’s an art chelmore than a science.
09.05.2023 How to keep up when everything is changing Let’s talk about ways we can not just make peace with the constancy of change, but find ways to use it to fuel our collective ability to excel.
08.29.2023 How—and why—to be a great facilitator at work Let’s talk about how you can up your facilitation game in order to work with—not for—your internal partners to deliver outcomes that are bigger, better, and more impactful.
08.22.2023 How to build better relationships at work I’ve really been encouraging clients to focus on singular relationships.
08.15.2023 How to stop secretly procrastinating So many of us are busy at work and the days keep flying by without us ticking projects off the to-do list. Have you wondered where all the time is going, how you’re always so busy, and yet the big ...
08.08.2023 How to stay positive-ish in tough times Leaders are feeling the heat of their overwhelmed teams.
08.01.2023 How to rally support for your big idea Reinventing how we work and what we deliver? It’s a winning strategy.
07.25.2023 Is your team future-fit? Let’s talk about how the Fit-Check works, and how you might even run one with your own team.
07.18.2023 How to climb out of overwhelm at work Let’s talk about some strategies we can all be using to keep the collective us in a high-performing but not working-to-the-bone zone.
07.11.2023 It’s time to expand how we’re thinking of connection Connection is not just about physical proximity to others.
07.04.2023 How to have a great 1-1 conversation at work If you’re a leader of a team, I hope there are some pointers in here for you.
06.27.2023 Do your goals need a mid-year refresh? Goal-setting is a thing so many of us do in 12-month increments. But with the pace of change still swirling around us, do we all deserve a mid-year check-in on how right those goals still feel?
06.20.2023 Taylor Swift's lessons for workplace success And while I’m not presently wearing a Bejeweled body suit, I’m hoping these insights manage to find you All Too Well.
06.13.2023 What we’ve learned about hybrid work… so far While many organizations are “doing” hybrid in some form at this point, a lot of teams are wishing their companies just did it a little bit better.
06.06.2023 Squelching the advice monster: an interview with Michael Bungay Stanier Michael Bungay Stanier helps people be a force for change.
05.30.2023 How to break the spin cycle at work Doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result is the definition of insanity. So let’s break the cycle.
05.23.2023 Time to squelch invisible labor! It’s hard to show recognition for something we can’t even see.
05.16.2023 From self-care to team care Turns out maintenance is a good investment.
05.09.2023 Can we talk about boreout? I’m uncovering a surprising amount of boreout in my pulse checks.
05.02.2023 Should you go for that job? Let’s talk about some things you should ask—and answer—to help you decide whether that new job deserves your candidacy.
04.25.2023 Who's in charge of workplace wellness? Everyone wants it but no one seems clear on whose job it is to make it happen.
04.18.2023 5 strategies for managing your manager They need our help in managing them to better manage us.
04.11.2023 4 questions to ask yourself when someone has disappointed you One theme that’s been coming up a lot lately is disappointment.
04.04.2023 4 more “Refine” strategies for staying on purpose Be thoughtful about who is asking, for what purpose, and what’s at stake.
03.28.2023 How to use "Refine" strategies to stay on purpose The uncertainty of the economy has left many of us afraid to say no—to anything.
03.21.2023 3 ways to fill your Thrive bucket at work Thriving, for me, is about wellness.
03.14.2023 How to finally have that dreaded conversation Let’s talk about what makes a conversation crucial, and how we can have solid ones that leave everyone feeling like a winner.
03.07.2023 How to clarify roles and responsibilities When something fails, it’s more often a failure of clarity—who owned the decision or the responsibility—than a failure of individual performance.
02.28.2023 How to lead above your noise Focus and intention require real discipline—to understand what’s important (and what’s not) and to proactively make choices to weed out all the extras.
02.21.2023 How to care for your employee experience in a recession With the threat of layoffs or hiring freezes looming, hey no one’s gonna leave in this economy, right? Um, that is false.
02.14.2023 Bringing self-care to work with Rachel Kanarowski If you’ve seen any signals of anxiety or overwhelm creeping into your workplace—or you’re just looking to keep wellbeing at the forefront—then this interview is for you.
02.07.2023 How to manage through a season of layoffs The buzzword of 2023 so far seems to be “anxiety.”
01.31.2023 How to maximize your own learning and development There are right ways to ensure that your learning translates into capability, behavior change, and confidence in doing new things.
01.24.2023 4 principles for keeping talent engaged at work this year Employees and companies both want to create spaces for great work, for connectivity and belonging, for health and wellness, for innovation.
01.17.2023 Four work lessons I’ve learned from my clients My clients teach me lessons I don’t always recognize as such in the moment. But I really do leave every engagement just a little smarter in one way or another.
01.10.2023 The power of self-awareness at work As you know if you’ve ever tried to read a mall map, you can’t get to where you want to go without first finding that “you are here” marker.
01.03.2023 How asking “who” and “what” can help you find your “why” If you’re feeling in need of a little bit of boost, let’s talk purpose, and how you can find and breathe life into yours.
12.27.2022 Is there any escape from the 40-hour workweek? If you're struggling with the 40-hour workweek, it might be time to ask yourself what specifically might be plaguing you. From there you can create change for yourself.
12.20.2022 How to be more strategic at work I realized that what she was asking me in not so many words was if I could help her team just be more strategic. And yeah. I could do that.

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Modern Mentor episodes:

Why Meetings Are Still Awful and How to Fix Them

How to Communicate in a Hybrid World: Interview with Laura Fravel

How to juggle when I have no choice

How to navigate a season of layoffs

Communicate to activate your team

Your team needs a year-end review

How to Prioritize Using ICE

Move Fast and Fix Things with Frances Frei

Golden circle your way to a winning Q4

How to have meetings that shouldn’t have been emails

How stinky fish drive great team conversations at work

6 ways to influence without authority

How to keep up when everything is changing

How—and why—to be a great facilitator at work

How to build better relationships at work

How to stop secretly procrastinating

How to stay positive-ish in tough times

How to rally support for your big idea

Is your team future-fit?

How to climb out of overwhelm at work

It’s time to expand how we’re thinking of connection

How to have a great 1-1 conversation at work

Do your goals need a mid-year refresh?

Taylor Swift's lessons for workplace success

What we’ve learned about hybrid work… so far

Squelching the advice monster: an interview with Michael Bungay Stanier

How to break the spin cycle at work

Time to squelch invisible labor!

From self-care to team care

Can we talk about boreout?

Should you go for that job?

Who's in charge of workplace wellness?

5 strategies for managing your manager

4 questions to ask yourself when someone has disappointed you

4 more “Refine” strategies for staying on purpose

How to use "Refine" strategies to stay on purpose

3 ways to fill your Thrive bucket at work

How to finally have that dreaded conversation

How to clarify roles and responsibilities

How to lead above your noise

How to care for your employee experience in a recession

Bringing self-care to work with Rachel Kanarowski

How to manage through a season of layoffs

How to maximize your own learning and development

4 principles for keeping talent engaged at work this year

Four work lessons I’ve learned from my clients

The power of self-awareness at work

How asking “who” and “what” can help you find your “why”

Is there any escape from the 40-hour workweek?

How to be more strategic at work

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