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Management Café

Casual conversations about leading a team. With co-hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti. 

Oct 31, 2022

There's a degree of separation from your team members when you lead a team - and this sometimes can lead to feeling separated, and even lonely. Who should we rely on to get us through it? Pilar and Tim discuss this over coffee.

2.00 mins. Does some of this loneliness come from feeling like we can't share as much with...


Oct 24, 2022

Management is a tough job. It's not for everyone. Managers need motivation to get up and do their job day after day. Tim and Pilar explore what keeps them going.

2:40mins Pilar's secret sauce is the joy of collaboration. She explains why this is important to her and details the wonderful behaviours she sees when a...


Oct 17, 2022

One of the least fun aspects of management is raising issues of poor performance with team members. Tim and Pilar share their own experiences and learnings along the way.

2:00mins Giving performance feedback to a friend, one of the few occasions Pilar needed to seek advice and the one piece of advice that helped her...


Oct 10, 2022

What changes when you become a manager? Pilar and Tim continue talking about how boundaries and relationships shift when you move into leadership.

1.10mins It feels different to be promoted in a team where people already know you, than being promoted into a new team, where you start with a clean slate. With a new...


Oct 3, 2022

What changes when you become a manager? In this episode Pilar and Tim explore how boundaries and relationships shift when you move into leadership, amongst many other things.

1:30 Typical paths into leadership roles and Tim shares his own journey.

3:20 Can managers be an unnecessary layer? Do all teams need...