Management 101
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
How To Onboard A New Employee
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
After the actual interview process, the onboarding process is an employee's first true exposure to your company. A good onboarding process leaves a la...
How To Use Performance Metrics, KPIs, and Goals
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Whether you're a first-time manager, owner of a business, or a seasoned founder or executive, the only way you can run your business or team effective...
How To Manage Change In Your Company
12 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The only constant in the corporate world is change. How a leader implements change in their company, though, is the difference between success and fai...
What Makes A Good (and Bad) Founder or Business Owner
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Founders and business owners come in all shapes and sizes, but there are some clear common themes amongst those who find success and those who struggl...
The Most Frustrating Mistakes Managers Make Without Realizing It
15 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every manager makes mistakes. Sometimes these mistakes are easy to identify. Sometimes they're not. The most impactful mistakes managers make are ofte...
How To Hire Even Better Talent
18 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Filling your team with great talent is essential to being a successful manager. But hiring is hard, particularly for first-time leaders, as it require...
Enabling Better Decisions With Data
04 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The most successful teams and companies use data to make better decisions. But how should a manager or company leader think about getting data into th...
In the Management Arena and Trying Stuff
13 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Management 101, I am joined by Executive and Leadership Coach Spencer Fertig, and today we're trying something different. Instead o...
How To Hold People Accountable
25 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do you hold employees accountable? Every leader struggles to do so, particularly in a startup environment where they tend to be spread very thin. ...
Common Problems That Startups Face and How To Handle Them As A Leader
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every growing company has daily and existential challenges that its leaders are constantly dealing with. In today's episode I dive into the most commo...
Mistakes I've Made As A Manager, And What I Learned From Them
26 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every manager makes mistakes. The best ones turn them into learning experiences. And not to toot my own horn or anything, but I've had a lot of learni...
How to Delegate and Empower
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Leaders who want their companies to succeed need to figure out how to delegate the things they are not best suited to do, and then they need to empowe...
How To Create Good Company Culture
20 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Company culture isn't built through a set of core values pasted on a wall. Today's episode focuses on how company culture gets created, what good comp...
How To Be A Good Leader + How To Be An Analytical Leader
06 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Good leadership today requires taking an analytical approach to your organization. In today's episode, I chat with Bill Zhang, a senior operations lea...
How To Manage Your Time
15 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Managers and employees alike struggle with prioritization and time management. Today's episode focuses on the main traps that cause employees to manag...
How To Set Up, Hire For, And Manage A Marketing Function
02 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
As your company grows, a strong marketing function becomes increasingly essential. But for many leaders, setting one up can be daunting. In the latest...
How to run even more effective meetings
25 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Running meetings is a part of any leader's job. Run them well and you get alignment, clarity, and buy-in. Run them poorly or let them go off the rails...
How To Manage Employee Professional Growth and Hold Professional Development Conversations
11 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Setting the right expectations for your employees is a key to their success as well as your company's. So is checking in on how they're performing aga...
How To Make Your Employees Top Performers
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Your employees are not just going to be amazing performers by default. You as a manager play a huge role is making them great. In today's episode I am...
Firing an Employee: How, When, and Why
23 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today's episode is going to be about one of the harder topics in management and leadership: firing employees. We'll talk through why to fire an employ...
Why Your Company Is Getting Less Efficient As It Grows, And What To Do About It
15 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Startups naturally hire more people as they grow because there's more work to do. But as they hire more people, they become less efficient. When leade...
How to manage remote employees
02 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Managing remote employees is a different breed of management than in-person. But doing so effectively can yield tremendous benefits to a company, incl...
How to communicate with your organization
10 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When you’re a company of 6 people, it is really easy to make sure everyone knows what’s going on. I work with a client that’s about this size, a...
How to hire great talent
14 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Hiring is a crucial part of every leader's job. What makes it go so poorly sometimes? How can you make it go well? In this episode we answer those que...
How to manage low performers
07 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Low performers sap energy from you, your team, and oftentimes your entire company. Managing them towards improvement or out of the organization is rea...
Manager Interview with Bar None Games CEO and Co-Founder Spencer Fertig: Honest + Empathetic Feedback, and Positive Team Culture
16 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Spencer Fertig is the CEO and co-founder of Bar None Games (https://barnonegames.com). He is also a former manager of mine, and one of the best I've e...
Manager Interview with Mateo Jaramillo, CEO and Co-Founder of Heru: People Development, Building Trust, and Team Culture
05 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Mateo Jaramillo is the CEO and co-founder of Heru, and one of the best managers I've ever worked with. In this episode Mateo and I discuss our approac...
How to manage imposter syndrome and people older than you
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Managing imposter syndrome and managing people older than you are two fraught tasks for managers and leaders. In today's podcast, we talk about what p...
How to deliver feedback
11 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Delivering feedback is one of the hardest things to do as a manager, and doing it wrong can have disastrous consequences for your team's productivity ...
How to run effective meetings
29 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Some leaders are great managers and executors but struggle to run meetings effectively. In today's episode I talk through some best practices for maki...
How to have effective 1-on-1s
14 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What's a 1-on-1? Why is it necessary? On this episode I discuss the do's and don'ts of having these critically important interactions with your team m...
The basics of being a manager
07 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
On the introductory episode I talk about some of the very basics of management theory and some very tactical tips to being a great manager, even your ...