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If you are a new or experienced manager or an aspiring manager, this episode is for you. If you want to develop leadership skills, you’ll find some relevant conversation here too. And if you want to better understand your manager, you may benefit from this episode. In this session, I speak with Katy Tynan about the misconceptions people have about management, the best ways to manage a creative team, the relationship between leadership and management and much more.
Katy is an author, speaker and internationally-recognized expert on how work is evolving and how the employer/employee relationship is changing. She works as a talent strategy and organizational development consultant with a focus on helping individuals, businesses and educational institutions adapt to the evolving landscape of work. Her book, How Did I Not See This Coming, is written as fiction. Readers follow a new manager, Julie, who is less than competent. Along the way, you learn the lessons of how to become a more effective manager. You can find find her book at ATD Press and Amazon.
WE DISCUSS:
- The situation new managers find themselves in
- Good intentions are not quite enough
- The core skill of an effective manager
- Reflections on leadership and its role in management
- Common misconceptions of new managers
- Six practices that demotivate creative work
- Mistakes new and experienced managers make
- How to write a team vision
- How to facilitate a growth mindset
- How to discover what motivates team members
- Ways to develop leadership skills
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TIME: 37 minutes
TRANSCRIPT: ELC 052 Transcript
LINKS TO RESOURCES DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:
- Katy’s Website: www.katytynan.com
- How Did I Not See This Coming by Katy Tynan available at Amazon and ATD Press
- Start with Why by Simon Sinek
- Theresa Amabile (creativity at work research)
- Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel Pink
- Stephen Covey books
- Servant Leadership in Action by Ken Blanchard
- Lynda.com
- SkillSoft
- Harvard ManageMentor
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