LEADERSHIP TRAPS

CONGRATULATIONS – you’re a manager now.

If you secretly feel like the cat who finally caught the mouse and are not quite sure how to avoid common management leadership traps, you’re not alone. Today’s guest, HR pro Barbara Mitchell has years of experience helping new and seasoned managers side-step leadership traps and can help you maximize your impact and influence as well as build trust and and high performance teams.

What You’ll Learn About Leadership Traps:

• The 2 biggest challenges new managers face.
• Why thinking your positional power means you have all the answers is a huge leadership trap.
• The 3 management behaviors that are leadership traps.
• How employee engagement starts well before you hire someone.
• Why onboarding employees is not solely an HR department responsibility.
• What to do when you feel your job is threatened by a super star who reports to you.
• An easy way to side-step the leadership trap inherent in managing remote employees.
• And much more.

Guest: Barbara Mitchell

Barbara Mitchell an acclaimed expert in human resources management and award winning co-author of The Manager’s Answer Book: Powerful Tools to Maximize Your Impact and Influence, Build Trust and Teams, and Respond to Challenges – a 2020 winner of the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Award.

Barbara is enthusiastic about helping organizations find, hire, engage and retain the best available talent. That’s why she founded The Mitchell Group, a management consulting practice that helps clients with people and talent management issues. She also maintains an active blog. Prior to her consulting, she spent much of her business career with Marriott International.

You might already be familiar with some of Barbara’s other work. In 2012, together with Cornelia Gamlem she wrote The Big Book of HR because managing people is the most challenging part of any leader’s day. The dynamic writing duo has since drilled down even further with their latest timeless release, The Manager’s Answer Book.

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Contact Barbara and connect with her on LinkedIn, Facebook, and Big Book of HR Twitter, as well as the Got Work Conflict Twitter.

Don’t forget to check out her book: The Manager’s Answer Book: Powerful Tools to Maximize Your Impact and Influence, Build Trust and Teams, and Respond to Challenges – a 2020 winner of the prestigious Next Generation Indie Book Award.

You might also enjoy Barbara’s earlier interview How to Keep Workplace Conflict From Turning Toxic.

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