PodKast - a series for leaders, managers, and change agents in fast-growing startups and other rapidly changing environments. We discuss ideas that help achieve agility without sacrificing robustness, creativity without forgoing consistency, agency without endangering the quality of outcomes, and speed without losing sight of purpose.
The frequent check-in conversations are the heart of the manger - reportee relationship. In this episode, we discuss some thoughts on how to make these conversations more effective.
We discuss how innovations, particularly on how you do things, can be difficult to realize due to organizational inertia. We share some hallmarks of adaptive organizations that can enable and accelerate these innovations.
In this episode, Celine Schillinger, CEO of We Need Social joins us to discuss her work on engagement leadership and how leaders can create engagement, belonging, and connection in the current environment. Celine shares some great tactical advice on facilitating deliberate conversations rather than defaulting to existing processes. We discuss her 4 cardinal points, the need for deliberate choices, the importance of focusing on the social fabric, why cultivating empathy is so important, and the balance between action and sensemaking.
With Coronavirus forcing many of us into remote work, in this episode, we discuss the positive and negative impacts this may be having on your organizational culture, employee engagement, and participation.
We deviate from our typical content to discuss some aspects of how the Coronavirus crisis is influencing Leadership behaviours.
We continue the discussion about potential evaluation and share some thoughts on how to do it effectively.
In this episode, we discuss why past performance by itself should not be as important in year-end performance evaluations and introduce the idea of a potential evaluation in place of traditional performance evaluations.
Greater autonomy, engagement and ownership stems party from articulating the context behind the company mission.
In the first episode, Vishnu and I chat about why traditional management systems don't work for fast-growing companies and how a principle-based, employee-centric, flexible adaptive system could.