The Managing with Mind and Heart Podcast

"You don't know what you don't know about how you show up and how you impact those around you." Have you ever thought to yourself, "Why am I surrounded by idiots?" If you have (or if you happen to work with other human beings), you should tune in. Mike and Ethan discuss why understanding your own behavior style can improve relationships in the workplace, and how understanding the behavior styles o...

"This is just a huge systems piece. If this is on everybody's radar, then the system is going to be better off. Things are going to get done. People are going to be more productive." This topic isn't the sexiest, but it's endlessly important. It's all about creating a culture of reliability and trust in the workplace. If you're a manager and give someone a task to complete, what happens if you don...

"All the time you're taking with these regularly scheduled one-on-one meetings with your employees pays itself back with higher morale, more engaged employees, better relationships and more trust. So, a few in-depth conversations a week doesn't seem like too much time to me." Running one-on-one meetings, without being hyperbolic, is probably the most important practice that a manager can take on....

"When you're a leader, success is about helping other people grow. That's really what we're talking about here with these skills." Geekery is afoot as Mike and Ethan drop a few Lord of the Rings references while they help managers explore the skills they absolutely need to be practicing. The main message of part two of our series on the Top 15 Management Skills is that your job as a manager is to...

"Some of these other skills you can be challenged in and still be alright, but this one you just have to have if you're a manager." If you're following the plot, you'll remember that in episode #2 Mike got up on his soap box and proclaimed, " skilled managers equal high morale, which equals all those cool things you can't pay for and you can't punish for." What the hell was he talking about? Tune...

"Just saying 'good job' isn't always enough – people need to really think about what they did right in order to create a road map for repeating the behavior in the future." The Nashes return to their regularly scheduled program in this third and final installment of the feedback series. This episode is all about the power of giving positive feedback! Giving positive feedback has nothing to do with...

"It's important that you acknowledge that this relationship you have with your peers is going to change. It's just part of the deal. And we need to be prepared for that."      The Nashes take a break from the feedback series to discuss an issue they've been getting a lot of questions about: "I am friends with the people I work with, but now I've been promoted. How do I go from peer to my peers' ma...

"There is only one thing, and one thing only, that you are allowed to give feedback about." In the last episode, Mike and Ethan Nash broke down the basics of delivering feedback in a way that actually communicates your truth while still keeping you connected relationally to the other person. Now it's time to crank it up a notch. Welcome to the graduate-level course of giving feedback. In part 2, t...

"The main principle here is that your tone and body language have to give the message that you're in their corner." Ethan gives his dad some tough feedback as they discuss a seemingly trivial topic that many people receive bad advice on. This episode is on how to give feedback in a way that tells your truth while also keeping you connected relationally to the other person. In Nash Consulting's 20+...

"As a manager, as a spouse, as a partner, as a parent, as a friend – the message of openness and non-defensiveness is what makes you approachable, it's what builds trust and respect, it's what allows you to hear the truth, it's what allows you to grow." Join father and son duo, Mike and Ethan Nash, as they attempt to hack the evolutionary tendency to get defensive. Defensiveness is a fear response...

"This skill comes pretty naturally to about 30% of the population, and 90% of people think they're within that 30%." In part 2 of adaptive skills, father and son duo, Mike and Ethan Nash, get down to the basics of how to grow and develop the most important skills for managerial (and personal) success. Adaptive skills are the skills that we brought with us from childhood, and they make or break our...

"These are the skills that we brought with us from childhood, and they make or break our success as adults." Join father and son duo, Mike and Ethan Nash, as they sip on cheap wine and get vulnerable about their growth opportunities. In this episode, they explore one of Nash Consulting's core principles: The importance of continually developing your adaptive skills. The elder and younger Nash diss...

"Many people spend nearly half their waking hours in relationship with this other person who has power over them, and that's weird. It's kind of unnatural, because most people, whether conscious or not, don't feel comfortable with other people having power over them." Join father and son duo, Mike and Ethan Nash, as Mike steps up onto one of his favorite soapboxes and Ethan attempts to reconcile w...

"Employees tend to get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence. This happens all over the place – the Peter Principle is alive and well in the vast majority of organizations." Join father and son duo, Mike and Ethan Nash, as they spend another 40 minutes attempting to help managers grow their skills. If you didn't listen to episode 1, it is recommended that you start there before div...

"You can pay employees for their back and their hands, but they volunteer their hearts and their brains."   - Dr. Stephen R. Covey Join father and son duo, Mike and Ethan Nash, as they discuss a topic that may cause you to say, "Come on, enough already. The subject of morale has been beaten into the ground." The Nash's response to that? No, it hasn't, because they work with leaders all the time wh...