Manager Mysteries and Mishaps: How to Be a Great Manager

Learn to grow authentic relationships with your employees and bounce back from any mishaps you encounter along the way. This podcast by Quantum Workplace equips you with the insights to become a great manager.

Being a new manager.

Being a new manager is often the most challenging time as a people manager. Keeping listening to learn how to prepare for becoming a manager.

12-10
19:42

The employee experience.

Employee experience is misrepresented in the workplace. Keep listening to learn about what the employee experience is and how to embrace an evaluation culture.

11-26
16:34

Managing remote employees.

Remote work is more common than ever before. Listen now to learn how to set clear expectations and better manage remote employees.

11-12
18:58

Handling employee turnover.

Turnover is an unfortunate but inevitable part of managing employees. Listen now to learn how managers can help navigate the potential negative impact.

10-29
19:44

Diversity and inclusion.

Managers are key to enforcing diversity and inclusion strategies. Listen now to learn what can be done if your organization is resistant to these efforts.

10-15
15:24

Building trust in the workplace.

As a manager, it's important to be constantly building trust in the workplace. Listen to this podcast to learn how to navigate and overcome trust issues.

10-02
17:35

Exploring the dark side of job roles.

This episode explores the idea of what a role is, as well as the dark side of job roles in the form of role overload, strain, conflict, underload, and ambiguity.

09-17
16:48

Giving performance feedback with the employee in mind.

In this interview, we explore ways to navigate the performance feedback process, taking the manager’s ego out of the picture, rethinking how we view the performance improvement plan, and the skill gap versus will gap.

09-03
21:07

How to handle stress at work.

This episode explores a method for stress management in the workplace, as well as some common causes of workplace stress and how you can help your team navigate those issues.

08-20
18:24

Helping employees avoid job burnout.

In this interview, we cover different aspects of job burnout:How people managers can help their teams navigate or avoid burnoutThe importance of being curious about team membersHelping teams build resilience

08-06
16:30

Managing emotions and emotional vulnerability. [Ep. 21]

This episode explores the complexities of managing emotions and emotional vulnerability at work, as well as healthy and unhealthy emotional cultures within organizations. 

07-23
17:48

Emotions in the workplace have an image problem. [Ep. 20]

This episode explores the most common positive emotions employees feel at work, the most common negative emotions employees feel, and negative moral emotions. 

07-09
18:22

What are drivers of employee engagement, and why do they matter? [Ep. 19]

This episode explores what drivers actually are, the top drivers of employee engagement, and what drives manager effectiveness. 

06-25
18:47

How are you setting boundaries at work? [Ep. 18]

This episode explores the mystery of boundaries and setting boundaries at work, as well as the mishap of workplace rules. 

06-11
17:49

Rethink change management. [Ep. 17]

This episode explores the mystery of the change management process and potential mishaps of change management, paying especially close attention to the Knoster model for managing complex change. 

05-28
17:37

Motivate employees by thinking about their needs: part 2. [Ep. 16]

This episode continues to explore how you can motivate employees, first by reviewing relational and developmental employee needs and then combining all the needs discussed in this and the previous episode.

05-14
19:57

Motivate employees by thinking about their needs: part 1. [Ep. 15]

This episode explores how you can motivate employees, first by reviewing Maslow's hierarchy of needs and then covering essential and procedural employee needs.

04-30
21:04

How can you give better, SMART employee recognition? [Ep. 14]

This episode explores how you can give better, SMART recognition to your team members.

04-16
17:42

How to make your SMART goals even SMARTER. [Ep. 13]

This episode explores the history and framework of SMART goals, and goes deeper into SMARTER goal setting.

04-02
19:52

The employee life cycle part 3: exits and employee turnover. [Ep. 12]

This episode explores the mystery of some common reasons for turnover, the mishap of how turnover data are handled, and the mystery of how best to handle firing employees.

03-19
17:10

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