Almost everyone has had the experience of working with a toxic coworker. How to deal with that situation can be difficult and emotional. It is not something that most people want to deal with, but it is in your interest, and the other persons, to work out the problem. We will deal with ways that you can do that in this episode.

Former sales executive Jake Kilrain discusses his experience in dealing with a colleague who felt they should have his position and tried to undermine him at every opportunity.

Executive presence is a critical component of being a successful senior manager. It’s the ability to project an image of confidence, competence, and leadership, inspiring trust and respect in others. As you continue to grow your career, developing and exhibiting the behaviors that define executive presence will be important for your growth as a manager. In a previous episode, we discussed the important quality of Gravitas. In this episode we’ll the other key elements of Executive presence: inclusiveness, communication, and authenticity.

Executive Presence is the ability to project an image of confidence, competence, and leadership that inspires trust and respect in others. Executive presence is a critical component of being a successful senior manager. As you grow your career, understanding and displaying the behaviors and demeanor that define executive presence will be important for your development. In this episode, we discuss Gravitas, a critical component of Executive Presence. In a subsequent episode, we’ll cover the additional qualities of inclusiveness, communication, and authenticity.

In our episode entitled “The Basics of Speechmaking” from February 18, we said that half of the world’s population was terrified of making a speech and we discussed the basics of making a speech. In this episode we’ll discuss how to think about your presentation and how to share what you’re passionate about with others.

How better can you learn about being an effective manager than listening to one of the masters in the subject. One is Peter Drucker whose writings are the subject of today’s podcast.

Overview: Leaders are all over the map in terms of their personalities, attitudes, values, strengths and weaknesses. They range from extroverted to nearly reclusive, from easy going to controlling, from open to closed behavior. Effectiveness is a discipline; it can be learned; it must be earned.

In previous episodes we’ve spoken about “Designing Jobs” and “Assessing Staff Wellbeing.” Now we want to talk about you and some issues related to managing your own career. It’s important to remember that you’re both a manager as well as an employee of your company. So, not only are you a boss, you also have a boss. In this episode we’ll discuss how to deal with your own manager in ways that’ll, hopefully, make you both more successful.

In almost any company of any size, managers do performance reviews. And, as with anything, some managers are better at it than others. Some have biases that they can’t get away from such as giving better reviews to people they hired, or that they know socially outside of the office. Nevertheless, almost everyone agrees there is a valid place for performance reviews when they’re done fairly and objectively. In this episode we discuss what goes into a good review.