Conversation With a Manager

CWAM Season Two Send Off Message

So ... this is the signoff for season two of our podcast. Thanks to all of our listeners and season two guests. We will be taking a little hiatus before returning with a new season three. So in the meantime, keep us in your respective queues and continue to tell friends about our podcast. Word of mouth is our best way to grow listenership. And thanks for listening. https://conversation-with-a-manager.captivate.fm

Managers and Coaching Careers ... Cheryl Fitch speaks with Betsy Hagan about coaching team members at different phases of their careers.

This week we are sharing an unheard bonus segment from Betsy Hagan's interview with Cheryl Fitch [S2/E6]. In this bonus track we hear Cheryl suggesting that since team members need have different career needs as their tenure grows, managers need to alter their approach to career coaching to address these different needs. She takes us on a journey through her own career and how managers successfully guided her on that journey. Our Website: https://conversation-with-a-manager.captivate.fm

Managers and Those New to the Workforce ... Kristin Slavish speaks with Betsy Hagan about how to integrate a person new to the workforce into the team.

On occasion a manager will have the opportunity to hire someone onto the team for whom the job is their very first full-time role. Orienting these newly minted team members is just a little different then hiring new team members with plenty of work experience. In this bonus episode Kristen Slavish offers some thoughts on how to best on-board these kinds of folks and make their first professional experience an engaging and productive one. Our Website ... https://conversation-with-a-manager.captivate.fm

Managers and Goal Alignment ... Jakada Imani speaks with Steve King the importance of being very explicit about goal expectations with team members.

One essential conversation managers must have with their team members is the "what's expected of me?" conversation, where the manager and the team member develop a mutual understanding of what the team member and the team must accomplish. Sometimes those conversations can get a little lazy, assumptions are made and inferences are unspoken, leading to misunderstanding about goals and goal achievement. In this episode our guest Jakada Imani points out the pitfalls when goals clarity is not achieved ... a kind of warning or reminder to all of us to be as explicit as possible when setting goals. Our Website ... https://conversation-with-a-manager.captivate.fm

Managers and Empowerment ... Dan Wargolet speaks with Steve King about a technique for avoiding the tendency to micromanage.

In prep for each podcast we ask our guests to talk about the best managers they have had in their career. Our guest today Dan Wargolet spoke of two managers and how these two helped shape him as a manager of others. In one case that managers shared a technique called "banks of the river" to help team members understand the boundries of their decision rights and form the basis for empowering those team members. We thought this metaphor might help guide you in your attempts to successfully empower others. Our Website: https://conversation-with-a-manager.captivate.fm