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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training

Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training

Eric Girard

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Management Development Unlocked is a global top 10% podcast for new managers and leaders who want to transform from high-performing individual contributors to great people managers. As the saying goes, “What got you here won’t get you there.” The skills that made you a great employee are almost completely opposite from the skills that will make you a great manager and leader. Eric Girard is your guide during this key transition. Experienced managers and leaders will also benefit from the tips and tricks shared on the show. Eric interviews guests from around the world with expertise in leadership, management, empathy, emotional intelligence, productivity, feedback, cultural competence, coaching, storytelling, engagement, and other management and leadership and management topics. Eric’s guests include authors and experts with decades of real-world experience who will help you smoothly make the transition into management and leadership. About your host: Eric Girard is the CEO of Girard Training Solutions LLC, a management development firm focused on helping new managers and leaders transition into their role. ​Eric has over 30 years of experience helping improve the performance of managers, leaders, and employees, including 20 years in Silicon Valley at companies like Apple, Applied Materials, and Symantec. His superpower is facilitation, and he’s led programs around the world with his high-energy and engaging facilitation and speaking style. Eric is a passionate, lifelong learner. As a PADI Open Water Scuba Instructor, he is pursuing the rating of Master Scuba Diver Trainer. When he’s not hosting a podcast or designing and or delivering training, he enjoys spending time outdoors with his wife and twin 15-year-old daughters.
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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Creating Safety in Feedback with Joel Silverstone

Creating Safety in Feedback with Joel Silverstone

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05/09/23 • 24 min

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]

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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Flipping the Script in Leadership with Bill Gentry

Flipping the Script in Leadership with Bill Gentry

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05/23/23 • 29 min

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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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - The 3 Cs of Management Development with Marriot Winquist

The 3 Cs of Management Development with Marriot Winquist

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03/21/23 • 24 min

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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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Using Management Development to Move Goals Forward with Mary Emerton

Using Management Development to Move Goals Forward with Mary Emerton

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02/14/23 • 19 min

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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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - The Lessons I've Learned from Starting a Business

The Lessons I've Learned from Starting a Business

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02/21/23 • 20 min

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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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Transforming Managers into Leaders with Beth Miller

Transforming Managers into Leaders with Beth Miller

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02/28/23 • 17 min

In this episode of Management Development Unlocked, Eric welcomes guest Beth Miller to the show. Beth is a Talent Management Advisor who works with business owners to help them develop leadership pipelines within their organizations. Her work includes new managers and seasoned leaders who want to reach the next level in their organization.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. How Beth Miller defines management development and the difference between management and leadership.
  2. The leadership attributes a new manager needs to develop and how you can weave leadership into a management development program.
  3. Why she loves using 360-degree assessments and Business DNA.
  4. Where management development needs to go to evolve and help companies achieve more and some issues she’d love to see solved.
  5. Beth’s answers to Eric’s speed round.

Connect with Beth Miller:

LinkedIn

Replaceable: An Obsession with Succession book

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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - The Power of Positive Feedback with Zovig Garboushian

The Power of Positive Feedback with Zovig Garboushian

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02/07/23 • 28 min

This week, Eric welcomes guest Zovig Garboushian to the Management Development Unlocked podcast. Zovig runs a consulting practice called Boldness Ablaze Coaching as an executive coach, speaker, and group facilitator. As a coach, she works primarily with women in leadership. She empowers them to overcome challenges unique to being a woman, understand who they are, and lean into who they naturally are as leaders boldly and unapologetically.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. What drew Zovig Garboushian to coaching women in leadership and her philosophy surrounding management development.
  2. Why management development should be a concerted effort and how repeated positive feedback can be transformative.
  3. Her approach to operationalizing management development and the first thing she does when she begins working with a team.
  4. Zovig’s favorite questions to teach her clients to ask as she coaches them.
  5. Eric’s lightning-round questions and some of her surprising answers.

Connect with Zovig Garboushian:

Boldness Ablaze Coaching

Leadership Essence Conference

LinkedIn

[email protected]

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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Why Managers Need Cultural Competence with Liu Liu

Why Managers Need Cultural Competence with Liu Liu

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03/28/23 • 16 min

Today, Eric welcomes guest Liu Liu to the Management Development Unlocked podcast. Liu Liu was born in China but is British and lives in the southwest of England. His wife is from the UK, and they met while he was working at a university. He is a project manager and leads an international team of managers and technical specialists who are based all around the world.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. How Liu Liu moved from the postroom, became interested in project management, and transitioned into senior management.
  2. Why it’s important for managers to develop cultural competence.
  3. The reason cross-cultural training needs to be a part of training new managers as they move into leadership roles.
  4. Eric’s lightning round for Liu Liu and his surprising answers.

Connect with Liu Liu:

LinkedIn

Liu Liu Coaching

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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Creating Great Leaders with Emotional Intelligence with Jason Meucci

Creating Great Leaders with Emotional Intelligence with Jason Meucci

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04/11/23 • 26 min

Today’s episode of Management Development Unlocked features Jason Meucci. Jason is a leadership development and team-building facilitator. He is also a coach for early career leaders and is a certified emotional intelligence coach. His work mainly revolves around workshops on DISC and team-building workshops.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. Jason’s philosophy on management development and why it begins with relationships.
  2. Why he values management and leadership development and what it does for his clients.
  3. How he approaches management development in his own company and the importance of building connections throughout the organization.
  4. Jason Meucci’s favorite approaches to DISC, what he thinks about Clifton Strengths, and Patrick Lencioni’s 6 Types of Working Genius.
  5. Where the management development space needs to go to achieve more, where the gaps are, and the issues he’d like to see resolved.
  6. Jason’s answers for Eric’s speed round of questions.

Connect with Jason Meucci:

LinkedIn

[email protected]

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Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training - Emotional Intelligence in Management with Molly Fields

Emotional Intelligence in Management with Molly Fields

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01/24/23 • 24 min

This episode of Management Development Unlocked introduces us to Molly Fields. She’s the Senior Director of Learning and Development for TCC and Wireless Zone, Verizon-authorized retailers. She supports more than 1,200 locations nationwide in more than 46 states. She focuses on learning and development for soft skills and sales skills. She’s been at TCC for nearly 13 years.

In this episode, you’ll hear:

  1. The reason Molly Fields has remained at TCC for so long--and it all comes down to culture.
  2. Why Molly puts people first as a part of her management philosophy and how those concepts translate to real behavior.
  3. How management development affects execution within the company and the importance of emotional intelligence in management roles.
  4. The reason an emphasis should be placed on employees’ mental health and emotional well-being in order for management development to continue to evolve.
  5. Some issues Molly would like to see resolved and how they can be addressed.
  6. Her answers to Eric’s speed round of questions.

Connect with Molly Fields:

LinkedIn

Building a Culture of Good

TCC

Wireless Zone

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How many episodes does Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training have?

Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training currently has 97 episodes available.

What topics does Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training cover?

The podcast is about Management, Podcasts, Business and Careers.

What is the most popular episode on Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training?

The episode title 'Creating Safety in Feedback with Joel Silverstone' is the most popular.

What is the average episode length on Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training?

The average episode length on Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training is 27 minutes.

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Episodes of Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training are typically released every 7 days.

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The first episode of Management Development Unlocked - Management & Leadership Training was released on Jan 17, 2023.

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