Happiness At Work

Leaders need to be measuring results not face time, says Roberta Matuson, CEO of Matuson Consulting and author of the book Evergreen Talent: A Guide to Hiring and Cultivating a Sustainable Workforce. Find out why she says what's most important right now to creating optimal work environments, is to cut employees a break, stop micromanaging and most importantly, to genuinely check in and listen. And learn why Roberta earned the name Talent Maximizer, and how companies can maximize talent now and after COVID-19. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

Ryan Ripley, host of the podcast Agile for Humans and co-author of Fixing Your Scrum, talks about the benefits of Scrum values and Agile principles and how to avoid anti-scrum patterns. People love certainty, which makes it hard when people feel like they don't have it all figured out. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com.   

In order to allow your team to flourish and find solutions, leaders have to stop leading from a place of fear and reaction and start being experimental leaders, says Melanie Parish, author of, The Experimental Leader: Be a New Kind of Boss to Cultivate an Organization of Innovators. Find out what seven dysfunctional leadership styles to avoid and why self reflection is the key to stop being so reactive. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

We spend so much time avoiding feeling uncomfortable that we don't realize if we just sit with the emotions, we'll move past it. Amy Smith, certified confidence coach and host of The Joy Junkie Show, explains what it takes to have hard conversations at work and at home, how to say no, set boundaries and most of all to stop caring about what other people think. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

Now more than ever human resources needs a seat at the table. As companies work from home, teams need to build trust and they can do that by getting to know each other better. Jason Treu, author of Social Wealth and host of the Executive Breakthroughs podcast says that right now working remotely is going OK because everyone's in crisis mode with a common purpose. But he cautions that once that starts to fade we’ll go back to pre-COVID times, where companies are struggling to build effective cultures. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

If you change behavior you’ll change the nature of an organization, said Gregory Shea, co-author of Leading Successful Change, a book about helping organizations pivot successfully. Find out why we're not always framing the problem correctly when it comes to change and why culture change within organizations is the hardest shift for companies to make. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

Management 3.0 is putting on its first ever virtual and in-person conferences. Forward, is an avant-garde, first of its kind event to bring people together, share knowledge and learn new management and leadership skills. In this episode we go behind the scenes with our conference master, Sarah Startup. Find out how we navigated making conference decisions during the Coronavirus, why our virtual conference in November is the only one of its kind and why these are two events you will not want to miss. Sarah is the brains behind our fabulous Management 3.0 Summits: Forward Virtual and  Forward In-Person. Join us for Forward Virtual November 19 & 20. This event enables fantastic connections & networking throughout the world! Join this unique experience where we co-create & connect to redefine the future of management & leadership. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com   

Alessandro Fossato, founder of Interlogica and self proclaimed facilitator for technological change, explains how his company went remote in just four hours when Italy went on lockdown due to the coronavirus and how now they'll never look back. Learn how his company dealt with the shift and why their new merit money system changed the way people think about giving gratitude. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

Even for remote working guru, Gonçalo Silva, what's happened because of the Coronavirus has changed things for his team. With more than a decade of remote working experience, Goncalo, CTO of Doist, a remote-based company that focuses on providing the tools that promote calmer and more balanced teams, says the situation has created a global bubble of anxiety. Find out why companies need to accept that the situation we're in isn't normal, in order to create clarity, foster trust and transparency among teams. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

What holds people back is not fully knowing themselves, not knowing their strengths and not understanding how they think, said Joe Trodden, a coach who focuses on helping entrepreneurs develop their mindset to become effective leaders. Find out why the period between start-up and scale-up is pivotal for a business and why it's key for people need to find and understand their place in the company's story. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

You don’t need to think big to succeed, be open to chance and there is great power in community when it comes to business success. Eric Schultz, chairman and CEO of Sensitech and author of Innovation on Tap, recounts the greatest lessons as told by 25 American entrepreneurs. Find out why happy, successful entrepreneurs tend not to dent the future but rather work on a problem that’s immediate and present. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

Dr. Jennifer Goldman-Wetzler, leading expert on conflict and organizational psychology and author of, Optimal Outcomes: Free Yourself from Conflict at Work, at Home, and in Life, takes a counter intuitive approach to resolving conflict. Find out why conflicts aren't always resolvable, but why freeing ourselves from conflict in order to achieve freedom, is possible. An insightful and refreshing look at breaking our own patterns during conflict. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

How can we be more inclusive of our customers? What's one thing we'll do differently in the next two weeks? Transformation can be daunting but if we take incremental steps it doesn't have to be overwhelming. In this fabulous episode, the super star duo, Tanya Spencer, senior HR business partner at BT in London and Stephanie South, HR business partner for HSBC technology, explain what it takes to adopt agile practices in HR and why HR needs to be the beacons right now and help leaders stay connected with their teams and keep up morale. Tanya Spencer and Stephanie South are speaking at Forward Virtual as well as Forward Summit in Berlin. Forward Virtual Day 1, 19th November 2020, 10:35 – 11:15 Your beautiful strategy is undeliverable: Too many initiatives, too much jargon, but great aspirations? Too many plans and too little progress but all the right intent? Apply agile techniques to executive and other non-technical teams to help them streamline and make real progress against their aspirations. For more happ

Nineteen years ago Michael O'Brien had a near death accident that changed his life. Today, the corporate coach and author of Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows, says that the accident forced him to write a new script for a life that he was going through the motions in. Find out why Michael thinks the coronavirus is forcing all of us to pause and figure out where we want to go and who we're surrounding ourselves with. Join Michael as he rides for change on July 11, almost two decades years after he almost lost his life. For more, visit www.management30.com.  

In this special 200th episode of our Happiness at Work Podcast, we share insights and clips from some of our most popular shows and take a look at what people say happiness means to them! For more, visit www.management30.com.

HR has been given a fantastic opportunity to become more strategic, says Myles Hopkins, Business Agility Strategist at Be Agile, they just need to step up to the plate. Myles says HR needs to stop sitting on the sidelines and seeing themselves as something separate from the business but rather they need to get into the trenches. Find out why HR is integral to the team and to recruiting talent and why adopting a company wide agile culture, starts with them.  For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

What does it take to make life changing decisions? How can couples navigate transitions and maintain a balance of power? How can couples use the coronavirus to actually better their relationships? Jennifer Petriglieri discusses all of this and more in an intriguing and timely podcast. The major trap people are falling into during the coronavirus is thinking that it’s all about the practicalities, when in fact we need to first be mapping out our concerns. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com. 

Today, most companies are behind, they don’t reflect the world that they do business in said Jennifer Brown. Founder, president and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting and best-selling author of Inclusion: Diversity, the New Workplace & the Will to Change, Jennifer says most companies still have a long way to go in creating a genuine culture of inclusion. Find out why being good people doesn't mean we're being effectively inclusive and why senior managers have to really commit to creating change by measuring and understanding the gaps and then making people accountable for their actions. For more happiness, visit www.management30.com.

People need to stop treating culture like something that we have no control over, says Lynne Viscio and Jennifer Landis. Co-authors of the book Five Frequencies, Lynne and Jennifer say leaders need to be culture shapers in their organizations and to do this, they need to be in tune with their signals. Find out which five signals leaders need to fine tune in order to lead successful companies where people feel psychologically safe and can thrive. The first place to start? Leaders need to stop letting poor performers off the hook. For more, visit www.management30.com.  

Influence is the ability to make things happen without having authority, said David Mantica, Vice President and General Manager for SoftEd. David explains what happened when his company adoped an agile approach and delves into why it's so important to go in with an understanding rather than a bias. The biggest mistake people make is not giving up control, he said.  For more happiness, visit www.management30.com.