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We wanted to tackle some of the most complicated management questions that listeners sent in, so host Anne Helen Petersen turned to our favorite management experts, Melissa & Johnathan Nightingale of the Raw Signal Group. Whether you're suffering from micromanaging, a boss who loves to hear himself talk, or way too much work in too few hours-- we've got some suggestions.Listen to Melissa's fantastic advice on our previous episodes, "May I Speak to the Manager?" and "How to Be A Better Boss"Need advice about a sticky situation at work? Head to www.workappropriate.com and tell us about it-- we may use your question in a future episode!Follow @CrookedMedia on Instagram and Twitter for more original content, host takeovers and other community events.
Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale are Co-Founders and Partners at Raw Signal Group, a management training company. After working in startups and tech for over a decade, Melissa and Johnathan began blogging about their experiences with people management, which ultimately led them to starting a management training company. Now, in addition to training and coaching hundreds of managers each year on how to be effective managers in today's world of work, they also co-author a management newsletter, and in our conversation we spoke about their journey to founding a management training company, some of the challenges that managers face, and how they believe we can train managers to be more effective and valuable in today's modern world of work.The Raw Signal Newsletter: https://www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter Melissa's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shappy/ Johnathan's Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnath/
JOHNATHAN NIGHTINGALE, is the co-founder of Raw Signal Group, which provides management and leadership training About 26 percent of Canadians, aged 25 to 54 were working exclusively from home, which of course provides a lot more freedom than being at the office, and apparently ENOUGH free time to …. take on another job. CARMI LEVY, CJAD 800 tech expert This is a crazy story - A Toronto-based Tech Company says it recreated ArriveCan within less than 48-hours to show that the federal government overpaid millions for the app. The CEO of the company, Tribalscale, says it would have cost his company less than $1-million to build the app – a fragment of the millions poured into the digital software. How did they do it? JESSE ALEXANDER, YouTuber and Ex- Montreal A couple of months ago, we told you about the Montrealer who was trying to bring an ambulance to Ukraine. Well, he did and now he`s back to tell us about his journey… MONIQUE POLAK, Montreal author, freelance journalist and retired English professor Montreal writer Monique Polak is a collector of stories. In her latest work, The Brass Charm — her first picture book for children — Polak tells the story of a gift from a perfect stranger that her mother received on her 14th birthday while a prisoner at the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt during the Holocaust. Let's learn more about it now…
JOHNATHAN NIGHTINGALE, is the co-founder of Raw Signal Group, which provides management and leadership training
MICHAEL KEMPA, an associate professor of criminology at the University of Ottawa Security around Quebec's provincial party leaders seems to be high in the early days of the election campaign, with one leader saying he's been given bulletproof vests to keep him safe. Do we have enough security to keep them safe? When did this start becoming an issue? PETER MCNALLY, Professor Emeritus (Retired) at the School of Information Studies and Director of the History of McGill Project. Having dedicated his academic career to the history of McGill University, he also considers himself a ‘self-proclaimed palace watcher' SYLVIE DE BELLEFEUILLE, lawyer and budget advisor at Option consummators New regulations on refunds for air passengers are coming into force this week. Starting Sept. 8, airlines will have to refund passengers for cancellations and lengthy delays if they can't be rebooked on another available flight within 48 hours, even when those cancellations or delays are not the fault of the airlines themselves. Advocates say this doesn't go far enough… JOHNATHAN NIGHTINGALE, is the co-founder of Raw Signal Group, which provides management and leadership training You've almost certainly heard the term Quiet quitting by now -that's where you don't actually quit your job but you do the bare minimum required of you. Well now there's a new term making the rounds -quiet firing. What is that? And could it happen to you? We can now add Quiet Firing to the list of new things going on in the workplace. So, what is it? How do you know it could be happening to you?
JOHNATHAN NIGHTINGALE, is the co-founder of Raw Signal Group, which provides management and leadership training
In today's episode, Massimo is joined by Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale, the founders of Raw Signal Group and best-selling authors of How F*cked Up Is Your Management? An Uncomfortable Conversation About Modern Leadership and Unmanageable: Leadership Lessons from an Impossible Year. Prior to Raw Signal Group, the Nightingales worked in tech for 20 years. Between them, they've run every part of a start-up and learned a lot along the way about how to grow teams. They met in the early days of Mozilla and have been collaborating in one form or another ever since. Johnathan and Melissa have worked with thousands of leaders across the globe. They also write a wildly popular biweekly newsletter about management, leadership, and work. Highlights from today's episode include: Why managers feel like they're failing once they get promoted to this role The common problems that leaders shared in a 200-person interview Melissa and John conducted Their unique methodology for building better leaders and bosses Most common ah-ha moments that leaders have when they go through training How they transitioned from a tech starting up to building their company Connect with Melissa and Johnathan: Website: https://www.rawsignal.ca/ Twitter Accounts: https://twitter.com/rawsignalgroup https://twitter.com/shappy https://twitter.com/johnath To download my Conscious Communication Workbook to support you in turning toxic conflict into collaborative gold, please visit Massimobackus.com/workbook
The ousting of Donald Trump, the election of Joe Biden, a ransacking of the Capitol, a summer of protests in the wake of George Floyd's murder and a pandemic that is still raging in parts of the United States and abroad. It has felt like a very political few years. But should we not be allowed to talk about it at work?Some bosses would strongly prefer that you stayed away from politics at work. A number of companies have proposed policies that would ban or significantly reduce political discussions at the workplace. But who gets to decide what's political? And does it really benefit the company or its employees to keep these conversations from happening?Liz Wolfe is an editor at Reason and Johnathan Nightingale is an author and a co-founder of Raw Signal Group. They join Jane to debate whether eliminating politics is possible and how it would change the future of the workplace.Mentioned in this episode:“Basecamp Becomes the Latest Tech Company To Ban Talking Politics at Work,” by Liz Wolfe at Reason.“Fundamentally, this is a story about power,” in Johnathan Nightingale's newsletter.“Breaking Camp,” by Casey Newton at The Verge.
In episode 41, Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale emphasize what the manager title exactly entails and how to own the role. Melissa and Johnathan are founders of Raw Signal Group, best-selling authors of "How F*cked Up Is Your Management? An Uncomfortable Conversation About Modern Leadership" and editors of The Co-Pour. Before all that, Melissa has been a startup warrior, previously holding executive roles at Wattpad and Edomo … and was also Mozilla’s first Director of Global Public Relations. Johnathan, on the other hand, has built and operated entire organizations, all while helping improve diversity. He was previously VP of Firefox for Mozilla and CPO at Hubba. In today’s episode, they shared lessons learned from their early management mistakes and why setting expectations is one of the most impactful things we can do as leaders. Last but not least, Melissa and Johnathan explained how to help your team with burnout and “borrow from your future self”. Tune in to hear all about Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale’s management journey and the takeaways they learned along the way!
Melissa and Jonathan Nightingale are the founders of Raw Signal Group and are known for providing engaging no-BS leadership training for leaders in fast moving, high change environments. They are the authors of "How F*cked Up Is Your Management?": An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership, and they have recently launched an online video program for bosses dealing with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.They are incredible people, passionate entrepreneurs, and so damn genuine in their want to provide leaders with the tools they need to be better bosses.The conversation spans how to create an ideal environment for transformations, what it means to deliver training in an empathetic way in a quarantined world, and how authenticity can lead to higher engagement and dedicated supporters.
Melissa Nightingale has been a startup warrior since the first dotcom boom . She has held senior leadership roles in marketing, pr, and strategy at several fast paced startups, including Wattpad, Edmodo, and Mozilla. Johnathan Nightingale has built and operated organizations from 2 people to 250. He was the Vice President of Firefox for Mozilla during a period of intense turmoil inside Mozilla and out. Both are founders and partners at Raw Signal Group. Links Raw Signal Group Melissa's Twitter Johnathan's Twitter Credits Music by Jeff Kaale (1, 2, 3, 4) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/yfm/message
Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
Johnathan Nightingale talks with SE Radio host Travis Kimmel about scaling engineering management. Their conversation covers: how and when to hire engineering managers; how to onboard, train and plan for their growth; compensations reviews and promotions; advice for new managers, and what to expect at different management levels. Related links Johnathan and Melissa Nightingale’s and […]
Software Engineering Radio - The Podcast for Professional Software Developers
Travis Kimmel talks with Johnathan Nightingale about scaling engineering management. Their discuss when to hire additional engineering managers and how to set them up for success, how leaders can prepare for “growing pains” as an organization scales,
Today we're chatting with Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale, best selling authors of “How F*cked Up Is Your Management? An Uncomfortable Conversation About Modern Leadership.” Melissa and Johnathan have worked with some of the biggest tech companies across North America, like Mozilla, IBM, Hubba, Edmodo, Wattpad and Creative Commons. Now they're helping even more companies build better bosses with their latest venture, Raw Signal Group. They’re also co-editors of the Co-Pour, a blog about effective leadership, dumb mistakes and whisky. Listen in to hear about the pitfalls of going from peer to manager (and how to avoid them), and how to know if you’re a results-oriented or relationship-oriented manager. People Leading People is the podcast where we get real with successful leaders about how they handle the people stuff. If you like what you hear, subscribe to the whole season, and please give us ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ in the reviews.
Note: This one uses the F word a lot. Melissa and Johnathan Nightingale, founders of The Raw Signal Group (https://www.rawsignal.ca/ ) each have 20 years of tech experience and they brought it to the People Stack to chat about bad bosses, bad assumptions, good allies and publishing their new best-seller “How F*cked Up Is Your Management?: An uncomfortable conversation about modern leadership.” Special Guests: Jonathan Nightingale and Melissa Nightingale.
Raw Signal Group co-founder Johnathan Nightingale returns to talk about his newly co-written book, How F*cked Up Is Your Management? before the team discusses Tony Lacavera's new book and whether Canadian tech companies sell too quickly. Canadian Content music clip (under fair dealing): "That Don't Impress Me Much" by Shania Twain
In this episode of the HRchat show, Bill Banham talks with Johnathan Nightingale about what makes a great leader, how to keep on track in a fast-growing company and his experiences at the recent #NextGenTA Diversity by Design event.
The CanCon team evaluates the announcements from Apple's WWDC, and is joined by former VP of FireFox, Johnathan Nightingale, to discuss forthcoming changes to our web browsers. Canadian Content music clip (under fair dealing): "Drinking in L.A." by Bran Van 3000