Is your company in a growth spurt, or is it stuck in a rut? A tough question to answer for a company experiencing rapid change. If the answer for your…
Right after you deliver a Performance Improvement Plan, an interesting phenomenon often occurs. For the period of approximately 2-3 weeks after the plan is delivered, the employee who has received…
In the early stages of a startup, employees can be very effective while operating independently from others on the team. This is the case because most employees are departments of…
1-on-1 What's the difference between a 1-on-1 and a professional development check-in? A 1-on-1 is something that you do once a week with your direct reports, perhaps even more often.…
Question 1: “What's on your mind?” This question opens up the floor to your direct report to talk through what they're thinking about and what's bothering them, whether it's project-related,…
Welcome back to Management 101 with me, your host, Max Wenneker. Before we get into today’s episode, I first wanted to apologize to my tens of listeners for the extended…
Time management has been on my mind a lot lately. I have observed many founders and company leaders who, particularly in the face of larger shifts in the labor marketplace,…
Hello and welcome to podcast episode three. I'm your host, Max Wenneker. And thanks for joining us today. And by us, I mean me. Today we're going to be talking…
Hello, and welcome to another edition of Management 101. I am your host, Max Wenneker. Thanks for joining again. Today we're going to talk about 1-on-1s. I'll talk about what…
This podcast is going to be focused on how to be a better manager and leader. It's going to be focused particularly on the startup setting, which has its own…