4 episodes
What We Don’t Talk About Alice Sowerby
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Hello and welcome to What We Don’t Talk About, a podcast that runs towards the difficult conversations we all struggle to have. In it, we explore the experiences you might go through and the explanations that can help you understand them. It is co-hosted by Alice Sowerby and Ceri Newton-Sargunar. Alice Sowerby is incurably curious about what it’s like to be a human, and the reasons why our experiences are the way they are. She works in tech and has held leadership and management roles across a wide range of organisations. Ceri is an agile professional, coach and trainee neuroscientist with a passion for brains, books and tea. She loves having a nerdy look at why we do what we do on a behavioural and neuroscientific level, and then exploring how we can do better for ourselves and for the folks around us.
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Mental health issues - what can a manager do?
Most managers have not been trained in managing staff with mental health issues, so can feel unsure about what to do. Alice and Ceri talk about the role a manager can take, where the limits are and give practical advice about what they can do.
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Underperforming staff and letting people go
Building on Ep 1 about Feedback, Alice and Ceri talk about the pitfalls of following common advice given to managers about managing under performers and what you can do to let people go with care and compassion.
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Deadlines: The Hidden Dangers
Managers are told from day 1 to use deadlines to manage people and work. But they are surprisingly difficult to use successfully and come with some serious down sides.
Alice and Ceri talk about why deadlines are so hard to use and what you can do instead.
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Giving Feedback as a Manager
Giving feedback as a manager is HARD! And so much of the advice we are given is superficial or even unhelpful.
Alice and Ceri unpack conventional wisdom to find a better way to give timely, compassionate and effective feedback.
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