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The Modern Manager
by Mamie Kanfer Stewart · English
Practical management skills you can use this week. Host Mamie Kanfer Stewart helps managers close the gap between knowing what good management looks like and actually doing it. Each week brings either a short solo lesson with one tool you can use right away, or a conversation with an expert on topics like feedback, difficult conversations, delegation, meetings, strategic thinking, team culture, collaboration and using AI at work. Get new episodes and one-page takeaways by email: https://www.themodernmanager.com
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433: How to Get Team Buy-In on a Goal That Feels Impossible
How to secure team buy-in for a “too hard” goal by treating silence as a warning and collaboratively adjusting the goal (timeline, resources, priority, scope, approach), then negotiating upward and…
10 Nov 2026 · 9m · 3 chapters432: How Tone of Voice and Body Language at Work Shape Your Message with Gina London
How tone of voice, facial expressions, body language, appearance, and small situational choices shape what people perceive—often even when you’re not speaking—plus how to listen and respond…
3 Nov 2026 · 29m · 14 chapters431: How to Delegate Without Micromanaging: Define What Done Looks Like
Delegation without micromanaging by defining “what done looks like” using a “successfully done statement” before handing work off.
27 Oct 2026 · 9m · 3 chapters430: How to Overcome Resistance to Change on Your Team with Tony Chatman
How to overcome workplace resistance to change by treating resistance as a system tied to identity, not laziness; includes strategies for discovery, communication, and leveraging “opinion leaders,”…
20 Oct 2026 · 31m · 17 chapters
How to Figure Out What’s Really Behind a Performance Problem
How to diagnose the real cause of a performance problem before giving feedback, using three checks: promise, process, then person.
13 Oct 2026 · 7m · 3 chapters
428: How Grateful Leaders Build Teams No One Wants to Leave with TJ Sweet
Grateful leadership—how leaders build psychologically safe, purpose-driven teams by practicing gratitude as a lens (not toxic positivity), fostering abundance over scarcity, and personalizing…
6 Oct 2026 · 29m · 14 chapters
427: The Meeting Portfolio Every Manager Needs
Building a “meeting portfolio” for managers—standardized, reusable templates for recurring meetings (e.g., one-on-ones, project kickoffs, postmortems, budget reviews) so prep isn’t reinvented each…
29 Sep 2026 · 7m · 3 chapters
426: How Tiny Habits Rewire Your Identity with BJ Fogg
How BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits approach uses very small, easy actions to build automatic habits and shift identity; includes workplace applications like meeting behaviors, email responses, and manager…
22 Sep 2026 · 32m · 12 chapters
425: 4 AI Tools I Use Every Single Day (And the Friction They Remove)
Amy Canberra-Stewart argues that the most valuable AI tools are the ones that remove “friction” in managers’ daily admin work—writing, email triage, meeting note-taking, and building missing…
15 Sep 2026 · 9m · 6 chapters
424: How to Manage Up, Down, and Across with Kristen Harcourt
How to manage up, down, and across—building trust and influence with direct reports, peers, and bosses to improve results.
8 Sep 2026 · 35m · 14 chapters
423: How AI Can Help Us Show Meaningful Appreciation (And Be More Human at Work)
Using AI as a “thinking partner” to deliver meaningful, specific appreciation at work—so managers don’t default to vague praise that people forget.
1 Sep 2026 · 7m · 5 chapters
422: Turn Uncomfortable Conversations into Just Conversations with Amy Jacobson
Why difficult conversations feel like “fight, flight, freeze,” how to avoid them, and how to handle underperformance with emotional intelligence—turning uncomfortable conversations into “just…
25 Aug 2026 · 32m · 13 chapters
421: The Difference Between Consensus and Agreement That's Costing You Decisions
How to distinguish consensus from agreement to avoid decision paralysis (endless debate) or “fake decisions” (votes that create quiet sabotage).
18 Aug 2026 · 8m · 6 chapters
420: The Hidden Force Pulling Your Team Apart (and How to Reverse It) with Matt Poepsel
Organizational/team “drift” (entropy) that naturally pulls teams apart, especially in remote/hybrid work, high change, and fear/anxiety.
11 Aug 2026 · 30m · 14 chapters
419: What It Really Means to Have Integrity
Integrity as a repeatable practice—keeping commitments you make. The host argues “yes” is the starting line, not the finish line, and that small broken promises create a “trust tax” that compounds at…
4 Aug 2026 · 9m · 7 chapters
418: Insights on Effective Leadership from the LGBTQ+ Community with Dr. Joel A. Davis Brown
Leadership lessons drawn from LGBTQ+ cultural values, framed as practical guidance for managers: authenticity, vulnerability, psychological safety, resilience, non-binary thinking (challenging…
28 Jul 2026 · 34m · 15 chaptersWe use cookies.They keep VO running smoothly and help us improve it. Privacy policy