Management Café

Pilar and Tim share how they learn and develop their leadership practice. 1:50 Tim's largely self-taught experience of management 3:00 Where to look for information about being a good manager 4:00 We discuss role models and whether our role models are aware of their influence on us 5:10 Promoting managers based on skill vs seniority, should management be the main goal for being promoted? 6:30 Tim shares his best sources for management inspiration 7:45 Tim mentions the book Powerful by Patti McCord 8:15 We share how books influence us, what do we do after reading a book that changes our thinking? 10:30 Using information as a starting point for a further conversation. Who can you talk to when "road testing" a new piece of knowledge? 12:30 Sharing our knowledge vs keeping it to ourselves. 14:10 Pilar shares where she got support when dealing with an unhelpful board 15:00 Is most of our learning about management formal or informal? We suggest a lot is informal which requires the right environment to be able to share. 17:35 We discuss what makes a good environment for these sort of learning conversations. We'd love you to join us for this 20 minute coffee, every week. Get in touch through our Contact Form https://managementcafepodcast.com/contact/ or join us on Twitter - we are @managementcaf

In this episode Pilar and Tim explore our first perceptions of management and how that influences the way we develop as leaders. To find your own style of management it helps to understand your beliefs about management and how they might change over time. For example even before we start working we form opinions about leadership via people like teachers and parents. We discuss how this translates to management within the workplace and how it impacts our core beliefs about concepts like relationships, trust and responsibility. Our early interactions with managers at work, both positive and negative, are also a big influence. And adding the perspective of being a manager can shift our view of what is a negative or positive action. We identify self awareness and self exploration as important skills for managers. Get in touch through our Contact Form https://managementcafepodcast.com/contact/ or tell us on Twitter - we are @managementcaf

In this first episode of our new season, Pilar and Tim give some background to their professional history. We talk about how our age and experience has influenced our leadership practice. For Tim much of it was learning on the job at Shield GEO and Pilar had leadership responsibility from an early age through theatre. We both share the belief that leadership should be helping people to grow and develop. We try to understand the concept of management beyond a corporate environment. Humans organise into groups and need leadership in many different contexts. We debate whether leaders are born or made. And explore important attributes for a good leader. How about you? What were your first experiences of leading others? Get in touch through our Contact Form https://managementcafepodcast.com/contact/ or tell us on Twitter - we are @managementcaf

Management Café is back... with a new co-host! Meet Tim Burgess, reconnect with Pilar Orti and find out what we are planning for the new season of Management Café.

Anish Hindocha, a lean consultant focused on culture transformation and continuous improvement. He explains taking Lean beyond manufacturing into leadership, why frontline workers reveal the real problems, and how tiny, continuous changes build trust and better teamwork. They discuss applying Lean to hybrid work, embracing a growth mindset around mistakes, and linking Lean with purpose and sustainability.

In today's episode, Pilar shares what she learned from the 21st Century Work Life series on Connection and Disconnection in Remote Teams. (Episodes WLP221, WLP223, WLP225, WLP228, WLP231, WLP233, WLP235 - summary here: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/podcasts/reflection-connection-disconnection ) This episode is based on the article written for HRZone back in May 2020: Five Steps to Preventing Isolation and Disconnection in Your Remote Team The five steps for managers looking to reduce the risk of isolation in remote teams are: 1. Understand what loneliness is, what is causing it and how it manifests itself in individuals 2. Unpick the effects it's having on team members and their work 3. Design communication practices and role-model behaviours that nurture a sense of belonging in different ways 4. Recognise that it is part of an organisation's duty of care to mitigate the risk of loneliness and address it as part of the overall wellbeing strategy 5. Equip individuals with the tools and skills to help them understand what makes them feel connected to others, and how to proactively find that connection You can download our free guide on Leading through Visible Teamwork by signing up to our newsletter: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/newsletter If you are looking for more inspiration on leading remote teams and online collaboration, check out Virtual not Distant's flagship podcast 21st Century Work Life.

We're re-purposing the segments Oh No My Team's Gone Remote, for managers and leaders of remote teams, from our flagship podcast 21st Century Work Life. Find us over at virtualnotdistant.com

We're re-purposing the segments Oh No My Team's Gone Remote, for managers and leaders of remote teams, from our flagship podcast 21st Century Work Life. Find us over at virtualnotdistant.com

When we think of "collaboration", we often think: "meetings!". But there is much more to collaboration than meeting up - and moving to a remote setup, often involves adopting asynchronous communication. This episode will guide you some different ways of staying in touch with each other - and if you need to run online meetings, well, we've got the book for you (Online Meetings that Matter) and a free download: https://www.virtualnotdistant.com/books

We're re-purposing the segments Oh No My Team's Gone Remote, for managers and leaders of remote teams, from our flagship podcast 21st Century Work Life. Find us over at virtualnotdistant.com