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Management Café

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

Dec 19, 2022

What happens for managers when work moves away from real time meeting focussed and more towards asynchronous? Communication and team interaction can be as unique and nuanced as each individual human. So how do we navigate management when our team are spending large parts of their time working async?

1:30mins We talk...


Dec 12, 2022

It's hard to imagine a manager without meetings. As leaders we don't just participate, we also need to run great meetings. All sorts of interesting and unique things can happen when people come together for a group discussion. And yet many of us have a love/hate relationship with meetings.

1:30mins Tim explains what he...


Dec 5, 2022

When do we stop being a manager and cross into therapy? Understanding and analysing human behaviour is an essential skill for managers. But most managers aren't professionally trained psychologists. How should managers be emotionally supporting their direct reports and what lines should they not cross?
0:50mins Where...


Nov 28, 2022

Managers have a responsibility to help their people discover and sustain the best version of themselves. But is this just in the context of our specific role and responsibilities? Or can we use work as a place to practice being a better human being? Tim and Pilar dive into people development.

1:50mins What sort of...


Nov 21, 2022

Handing tasks and responsibility to others is at the core of management. This is easy in principle but sometimes hard in practice. Tim and Pilar discuss delegation over coffee.  

2.00 mins. Does some of this loneliness come from feeling like we can't share as much with our team members as we'd like, and also they...