In another of our revisited episodes, Ricky looks back on Podcast 133, where he and Paul explore the idea of having a ‘bad boss’ and how sometimes this is more about the perception of the manager’s style than about the manager’s capability.
Ricky asks us to differentiate between toxic behaviours (which are not as common as many people think) and one of the more common perspectives: the boss is just being tough yet reasonable, or the boss is just a little disorganised, leading to ambiguity.
In this shorter-than-usual episode of the podcast, Paul heads back to one of our early podcasts (no 84) that looked at the well-known RACI model. This model helps people understand the different roles in decision-making and task allocation.
Paul thinks the Consulted and Informed roles, and how sometimes the Accountable person has to manage the emotions and expectations of these groups, so that they don’t hold the project hostage to their perspective, yet remain unaccountable to the outcome.
In this short podcast, Graham revisits one of our old podcasts on change. When change at work happens, it can create an emotional response, especially when the change is done to us, not by us.
Graham looks back on a podcast from May 2023 that explores the different ways that we react to change, asking how much do we, as leaders, really understand the people around us, and take that into account when communicating and leading change.
If you want to go back and listen to the whole podcast you can here it here – https://thequestionis.libsyn.com/106-why-do-some-people-react-to-change-harder-than-others
In this short episode of The Question Is, Ricky delves back into the library to revisit one of his favourite episodes, which also happens to be one of our most-played ever.
There are lots of slightly different versions of the meanings of the five areas in SMART goals, but the one that comes up most often with the people we work with is the ‘R’: Realistic (can you do it) or Relevant (should you do it). Even after all this time, this is still a hot topic, which is why Rob and Rich talked about it in 2017, and Ricky decided to focus on it for the first of our revisited series.
If you want to listen to the whole of the original podcast, it was episode 6, from June 2017, or you can click here to listen right now – Should the R in SMART be Realistic or Relevant?
