The Manager Track Podcast
If you’re ready to take charge of your career and want to become a confident and competent leader people love to work with, then tune into The Manager Track podcast.
Each week, Ramona shares inspiring new perspectives and practical tips you can use today to step into your power, lead a thriving team, and accelerate your career.
The Manager Track Podcast
If you’re ready to take charge of your career and want to become a confident and competent leader people love to work with, then tune into The Manager Track podcast.
Each week, Ramona shares inspiring new perspectives and practical tips you can use today to step into your power, lead a thriving team, and accelerate your career.
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29. The Two Common Blindspots Managers Have and How to Overcome Them
One of the biggest mistakes that I see managers make is to ignore their blindspots. We all have them but there are specific [...]
28. Why Having a Sponsor at Work Will Help You Get Ahead
When it comes to getting ahead you need more than a manager and a mentor; you need someone who advocates for you when [...]
26. How to Negotiate a Pay Raise
Tell me if this sounds familiar... You're a high-performer and are doing great work for your company. You're constantly exceeding [...]
26. How to Speak and Present Yourself Confidently Online and Offline – with Ravi Rajani
I'm thrilled to bring Ravi Rajani to you and to pick his brain on your and my behalf about how to confidently speak [...]
25. The Reason Why You’re Feeling Stuck
We first focus on building hard skills, then we invest in strengthening our soft skills.. but when do we actually spend time in [...]
24. “Can I Be Friends With My Direct Reports?”
"Can I Be Friends With My Direct Reports?" This is a question I often get asked when I do management trainings in organizations. [...]
23. How to Become a Better Leader With DISC
Do you work with someone who you just don’t get or who just doesn’t get you? Each day, most of us wake up [...]
22. Using LinkedIn To Attract Job Opportunities – With Chris Villanueva
Studies show that 70-85% of jobs (especially the good ones) are filled through internal candidates or employees' networks. That's a staggering amount! So [...]
21. Overcoming Imposter Syndrome
If you doubt yourself, feel like you don't belong or like you're a fraud or if you think that your success is due [...]
20. Moving Into Leadership – With Phil Burgess
In this episode, Ramona and Phil Burgess host of the IT Career Energizer podcast discuss successful leadership, remote working, and the importance of [...]
19. The Importance of Trust in Leadership – With Brian Harman
About two years ago, I went through training by a company called Landmark. During the training, I learned about the concept of Integrity. In [...]
18. How to Ask for Feedback
Imagine an athlete who never receives feedback on their performance. You'd probably agree that chances for this person to make it to the [...]
17. Embrace and Express Your True Self With De’Nicea Hilton
In today’s episode, I’m joined by De’Nicea Hilton. De’Nicea helps women embrace, embody, and express their perfect authentic self. Gentlemen, hold on - [...]
16. How to Navigate Negative Emotions at Work
We all have moments when we feel angry or emotional at work and that's not a bad thing. In fact, those emotional moments [...]
15. Coping With The Crisis – How to use your body intelligence to make faster & better decisions
In this episode, I'm joined by Marie-Jeanne Juilland, an executive coach and mindfulness expert. We discuss how to tap into your "gut feelings" [...]
14. How to Eliminate Distractions
If you find it challenging to stay focused during the day and to get your most important work done in a productive way, [...]
13. Unconscious Biases in The Workplace – An Interview
Yes, I'm biased... and you are, too. Ouch, I know! Just like you, I wished that I could say I'm free of biases... [...]
12. Telling People What To Do Often Doesn’t Work
Does this here sound familiar? Your direct report is making little progress on a project. You know how to do it, so you [...]
11. A Powerful Perspective From a Black Woman
This is part 2 of a series of honest, real, and unscripted conversations with Black professionals about their experiences with racism and discrimination [...]
10. How To Win In Office Politics
What's your first reaction when you hear the words OFFICE POLITICS? Do you dread it? Do you prefer to ignore it? Do you think [...]
9. How to Bring More Diversity & Inclusion to Your Workplace – An Interview
Join me for an inspiring conversation with Danielle, a black attorney, as we discuss racism in the workplace and what we as leaders [...]
8. Being Visible in a Remote Work Environment
You might have noticed that you're not interacting with senior leaders or your key stakeholders as often as you used to while working [...]
7. How to Delegate More Often and More Effectively
Believe it or not but delegating effectively is often said to be the #1 skill of high-performing managers. The reason is that when [...]
6. Navigating Difficult Conversations at Work
Most of us dread the difficult conversations we know we should have but would really prefer not to have. In this episode, we [...]
5. The 4 Ways to Keep Your Team Motivated & Engaged Even While Working Remotely
Most of us are a couple of months into working remotely and the end is not yet in sight. So how do you [...]
Becoming a new manager can be both exciting and overwhelming.
The biggest challenge is that most new managers don't receive any leadership training. Yet, the skills you need to succeed as a manager are completely different from the skills you needed to perform well as an individual contributor.
Because it's such a big transition, it’s very likely that you’ll make some mistakes as you ramp up in your new manager role. There are common missteps you can prevent, however, if you’re properly prepared.
In this episode, I'm sharing 3 big mistakes many new managers make and how to avoid them.
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