The Modern Manager

433: How to Get Team Buy-In on a Goal That Feels Impossible

Getting team buy-in on a goal that feels impossible starts with what you do right after you share it. When your boss hands you a big target, your team might light up, pus

432: How Tone of Voice and Body Language at Work Shape Your Message with Gina London

Your body language at work sends messages before you say a word. A flat face while you listen, a phone on the desk, a slouch in a meeting: your team reads all of it, and

431: How to Delegate Without Micromanaging: Define What Done Looks Like

Learning how to delegate without micromanaging starts before you hand anything off. You ask for something that feels perfectly clear, and it comes back reasonable, though

430: How to Overcome Resistance to Change on Your Team with Tony Chatman

Want to overcome resistance to change on your team? Start by noticing that the loudest pushback usually isn't the real problem. Hidden resistance often looks like nodding

How to Figure Out What’s Really Behind a Performance Problem

It's 4:47 on Thursday, the report still isn't in, and the story forming in your head is that they just don't care. But that story is usually wrong, and it's also the easi

428: How Grateful Leaders Build Teams No One Wants to Leave with TJ Sweet

Some days, gratitude feels like something for people with calmer inboxes. Someone dropped the ball, you're three meetings deep, and "thank you" is the last thing on your

427: The Meeting Portfolio Every Manager Needs

Planning an agenda feels like it takes forever, so too often, we skip it or do it poorly at the last minute. But that’s often because we treat each meeting like we’re sta

426: How Tiny Habits Rewire Your Identity with BJ Fogg

Most of what happens in a workday, from how you open a meeting to how you respond to bad news, runs on autopilot. Habits, not decisions, are doing the heavy lifting. Beha

425: 4 AI Tools I Use Every Single Day (And the Friction They Remove)

Most AI tools promise to make you more productive, but few actually remove the friction hiding in your daily grind. This episode breaks down four AI tools used every sing

424: How to Manage Up, Down, and Across with Kristen Harcourt

Most leaders pour all their energy into managing the people who report to them and forget the other two-thirds of the job: managing up to their boss and across to the pee

423: How AI Can Help Us Show Meaningful Appreciation (And Be More Human at Work)

Most of us have an instinctual positive response to great work.“This is amazing, thank you so much.” It feels warm and authentic, but could have been said about anyone or

422: Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Just Conversations with Amy Jacobson

That stomach-drop feeling before a hard conversation? It's not weakness. It's your brain doing exactly what it was designed to do. Emotional intelligence expert Amy Jacob

421: The Difference Between Consensus and Agreement That's Costing You Decisions

Picture a room stuck for three weeks on one sentence for a new policy. Half the team wants a rule tight enough to enforce, the other half wants it loose enough to survive

420: The Hidden Force Pulling Your Team Apart (and How to Reverse It) with Matt Poepsel

Your team isn't falling apart because something went wrong. It's falling apart because that's what teams do by default, drifting toward disconnection unless someone activ

419: What It Really Means to Have Integrity

You say yes to the small stuff: the draft review, the book recommendation, the shampoo run. Then Thursday comes and none of it has happened. No one complains, but somethi

418: Insights on Effective Leadership from the LGBTQ+ Community with Dr. Joel A. Davis Brown

Some of the best leadership lessons don't come from business books. Throughout history, different cultures have developed wisdom for how we can interact with and lead oth

417: Why Hitting Your Goal Doesn't Always Mean You Were Successful

Hitting the goal doesn’t always mean the project was a success. A project can finish on time, hit every target, and look like a clear win on the dashboard while quietly

416: Stop Difficult Conversations From Going Wrong (Before They Even Start)

Difficult conversations are rarely difficult because we don't know what to say. More often, they fall apart because we have the conversation at the wrong time, in the wr

415: The 30-Day Onboarding Plan Isn't a Welcome Packet

Most onboarding plans focus on helping new hires feel welcome and settled in their role. But the real purpose of onboarding isn't orientation; it's creating clarity befo

414: How to Create Space for Strategic Thinking with Howard Tiebel

Most managers know they should spend more time thinking strategically. The problem is that strategy often gets crowded out by urgent tasks, endless decisions, and the pre