CM146 Is it a Waste of Time to Understand the BOSS?
Release Date: 04/29/2019
CM47 Are Millennials Good for Business?
Counter Mentor Leadership
If you're a Boomer, you're rolling your eyes....but, since Millennials make up the largest segment of the workplace these days, it's a legitimate question. Although we hear a lot these days about Millennial "snowflakes" and their participation trophies, what does the research say about the impact Millennials have on the workplace? Yes, as painful as it may be for the BOSS, it's time to get some real data-driven insight into the impact of Millennials on the modern workplace. As it turns out, what Millennials want at work isn't so different from what other generations have wanted, but what they...
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CM146 Is it a Waste of Time to Understand the BOSS?
Counter Mentor Leadership
Millennials often struggle to figure out the BOSS. In many cases they don't even bother, and that's the question in this episode: Is it a waste of time to even attempt to understand the old, out-of-touch, technology-challenged BOSS? Scene: A group of Millennials get together at Happy Hour and before long they're talking about the BOSS: "Dude. My boss is killin' me. What a disaster." Yup. They don't understand you. They think they know everything. They don't have a clue about pop culture, and are trying to tell you how to do your job, and don't give you any feedback. What's the point of...
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CM145 Are Extroverts Better Leaders Than Introverts?
Counter Mentor Leadership
There seems to be an assumption that leadership requires certain personality traits. Perhaps not surprisingly, we all feel more comfortable following someone who is charismatic, decisive, and outgoing. Research confirms our intuition--even children know instinctually what kinds of people tend to get placed in leadership roles. So, we tend to assume that the best leaders are the best talkers--that extroverts make the best leaders. But is that necessarily true? Join and as they discuss our biases about leadership, what it looks like, and how leaders behave. More importantly, stick around as...
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CM144 Are Employees Holding You Hostage?
Counter Mentor Leadership
We've all got stories of coworkers behaving badly. It seems like we've come to accept drama as a condition of existing in the workplace. But what happens when some people's nonsense get punished but top earners get a pass? Obviously, it's a recipe for disaster--and a real crisis of leadership. Join and as they discuss a high-profile example of a talented performer getting away with bad behavior in the world of sports. As always, the difference between a winning culture and team dysfunction might just be good coaching.
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CML 143: More (or Less) Emotional Intelligence
Counter Mentor Leadership
Bad behavior didn't use to be so public! But now, social media has made it possible for people to throw temper tantrums on a scale we could never imagine just a few years back. More and more, conflict gets played out on public platforms rather than between people. It's too easy to get a daily does of public conflict courtesy of major league sports. Professional athletes and organizations have become quite adept at airing their dirty laundry all over the media. It's not only unprofessional and immature, it also provides the perfect reflection of the kinds of conflict that happen in the...
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CM 142 The Source of Workplace Failure You Don't Recognize
Counter Mentor Leadership
It's too easy to simply dismiss emotional intelligence as something you are too busy to consider. After all, where is the return on investment for these so-called "soft skills"? That's an easy question to answer, and the numbers are scary! EQ is vitally important to workplace success, especially for leaders! In this episode, find out why you cannot afford to ignore this hidden source of workplace failure.
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CM141 Your Friend Requests Are Annoying
Counter Mentor Leadership
How much time do you waste sending unsolicited LinkedIn requests or circulating awkwardly at networking events? How often do you roll your eyes when you get a Friend Request from someone you haven't seen since high school who now wants to sell you something? Ever experienced that clammy sweat that comes with delivering your "elevator speech" in an attempt to dazzle a captive stranger in a few nauseating minutes? If the very idea of networking makes you cringe, you are going to want to hear some good news from our guest, David Burkus, author of : Those methods DO NOT WORK. Ok, great. So... what...
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CM140 Coaching for Leaders
Counter Mentor Leadership
Coaching is, for many managers, a highly under appreciated skill. It is usually assumed that anyone who is good at something, when promoted to manager, will naturally be good at teaching and coaching those skills. Not so much. Teaching and coaching are powerful skills that have to be learned just as much as the skills that get managers promoted. And those skills will make you a far more effective leader. In this episode, and are joined by perennial champion football coach, to talk coaching for leaders in the workplace. Coach Blankenship has won everywhere. He has coached two...
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CM139 Greatest of All Time
Counter Mentor Leadership
What does it mean to be the Greatest of All Time (the GOAT, as the kids say)? The GOAT may be a spectacular performer, but he or she also has that quality that makes other people want to be part of the magic. We know great leadership when we see it: Abraham Lincoln, Catherine the Great, Winston Churchill. Great political leaders guide their people through turmoil. Great leaders on the court or on the field (GO PATS!) create teams that work seamlessly toward a common goal. In the workplace, great leaders inspire us and bring out the best in us. So, yeah, we may recognize it immediately,...
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CM138 Another Book About Millennials (a Shameless Plug)
Counter Mentor Leadership
Our new book, , releases on January 16! But another book about Millennials? REALLY? Well, hold on, cupcake. Yes, there are a lot of leadership books out there and lots of books about Millennials. We've read them all--well, that is, the Pops has read a lot of them, and Robby has read some Tweets about a lot of them. We've done the research, and we have over two decades invested in helping leaders transform potential into performance, regardless of generation. You definitely haven't seen anything like Counter Mentor Leadership. #snarky #sarcastic #truth In other...
info_outlineMillennials often struggle to figure out the BOSS. In many cases they don't even bother, and that's the question in this episode: Is it a waste of time to even attempt to understand the old, out-of-touch, technology-challenged BOSS?
Scene: A group of Millennials get together at Happy Hour and before long they're talking about the BOSS: "Dude. My boss is killin' me. What a disaster."
Yup. They don't understand you. They think they know everything. They don't have a clue about pop culture, and are trying to tell you how to do your job, and don't give you any feedback. What's the point of sticking around?
It's a good question. But here's an even better question: Have you even tried to understand your boss? Have you ever tried to connect and find out what's important to him/her? Maybe, instead of griping about the BOSS, the really smart move (the one that demonstrates a little emotional intelligence) might be to try and understand them first? To work hard to make their job a little easier?
Join Kelly and Robby as they break down the over-generalizations and the bad communication that prevent Millennials and Boomers from connecting at work. And stay tuned until the end for a set of principles that can help Millennials maximize their success in the workplace.