Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training

On today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes Joel Silverstone to the show. Joel is a Senior Professional Skills Facilitator and Coach at The Great Canadian Training & Consulting Company. He joined the company about two years ago because there was a gap in soft skills for a lot of people, so Joel redesigned or created the new soft skills courses, which included everything from time management and delegation to new manager courses, and difficult conversations.

Joel has more than 20 years of experience as a facilitator and speaker on communication skills. In his previous life, he was also a professional actor, and he uses that experience to bring some acting techniques into his training.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Why giving feedback is important for new managers, why they need to be comfortable with it, and make it a new part of their behavior.
2. How the terminology you use as a manager can create anxiety in your team, what you can do to make the feedback feel safe, and how you can frame it as growth.
3. The communication skills managers can use to provide feedback and why listening to your team is crucial.
4. The impact giving feedback can have on a team.
5. Joel’s answers to Eric’s more personal questions.

Connect with Joel Silverstone:

LinkedIn

Great Canadian Training

[email protected]

[email protected]

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Flipping the Script in Leadership with Bill Gentry

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric speaks with Bill Gentry, an industrial organizational psychologist who has studied and trained leaders for over 20 years. He also wrote the bestselling book, Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For: A Guide for New Leaders. After working for the Center for Creative Leadership for many years, he landed at High Point University and has worked as an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities in North Carolina. His passion is helping people lead better.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. What Bill’s book is about, what inspired him to write it, and how it can help you flip your script when it comes to leadership.
2. What a “red thread” is and the six flips you can make to become a better leader.
3. Why the two flips you should focus most on are relationships and a “do it all” attitude.
4. Why you have to let go of the things you aren’t as good at to focus on the things you are good at.
5. The cycle of life choice and how that applies to professional and personal relationships.
6. Who Bill would interview if he could talk to anyone, and why.
7. His favorite vacation spot and what brings him the most joy in life.

Connect with Bill Gentry:

LinkedIn

Website

Be the Boss Everyone Wants to Work For book

Center for Creative Leadership

What Got You Here Won’t Get You There book

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Marriot Winquist is Eric’s guest today on Management Development Unlocked. Marriot is an executive coach with more than 20 years of experience in the tech industry. In the past, she’s worked in marketing, strategic and product management, and she enjoys the breadth of business building and working with teams. Coaching felt like a natural transition in her career path.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Marriot’s philosophy on management development, the two areas where it applies, and her three Cs.
2. Why she values management development and how it adds value to companies.
3. How she developed the three Cs and why they’re developed over time.
4. Her favorite tools to use for identifying her clients’ strengths.
5. Marriot’s answers to Eric’s speed round.

Connect with Marriot Winquist:

LinkedIn

Website

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This episode of Management Development Unlocked introduces us to Mary Emerton. Eric first met Mary in Silicon Valley several years ago, and she is an operations executive with more than 25 years of experience in high-tech. She's developed and implemented a variety of programs for companies, including kickstarting programs like diversity and inclusion, and going through the IPO process.

Mary graduated from Arizona State University with a degree in purchasing and logistics management.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Mary Emerton’s management development philosophy, her belief that it’s an underinvested area in most companies, and why she values it.
2. What management development can do for companies and how she’s seen it evolve within organizations.
3. How she approaches management development to move the company goals forward and develop individuals and where the space needs to go in the future.
4. The issues Mary would like to see resolved and why alternative options in development are needed.
5. Eric’s lightning round questions for Mary.

Connect with Mary Emerton:

LinkedIn

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In this solo episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric is sharing what it’s like to start and run your own consulting business. Eric has been in learning and development his entire career, which began in 1992. In 1999, he began to focus on management development, and it became his passion.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

1. Why a move to Seattle in 2020 led to starting a management development consulting firm and how losing an anchor client took him to the next level.
2. The steps Eric took to get his business started and why he hired people to handle specific areas of the business.
3. Why impulsiveness can lead to bad decisions and how frugality can benefit you.
4. Make an “I hate this” list and find creative ways to address those tasks.
5. How asking for feedback can help improve your business and the importance of playing the long game.
6. The reason you should love your office space.

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