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In episode 8, we welcome our guest, Erin Sink, VP of Global Customer Operations at Udemy, to help us break down not only the things to consider when deciding to move from an individual contributor to a people manager, but some of the steps that can help you be successful in this transition.

In this episode, we breakdown:

1. Being a people manager is hard, in many aspects, so your mindset will need to shift as you move into a people manager role.
2. Training and skills development will be the key to your success – don’t wait for this to be offered to you.  Take the lead in your own journey!
3. Managing people isn’t necessarily about official authority to get things done.  It’s about an attitude of support, respect and collaboration vs relying on orders and direction.  
4. It’s critical to set expectations with your new team!  Delegation, empowering the team, and coaching them are key.

Resources: 

Udemy Courses for Leadership Skills Development:

• The Essential Guide for Effective Managers
• The Manager's Guide to Driving High Performance
• Goal Setting & Goal Achievement
• Resilience Leadership
• Emotional Intelligence at Work

Books Referenced:

1. The First Time Manager
2. The Coaching Habit
3. The One Minute Manager and the Monkey
4. Leadership and the One Minute Manager
5. Leader as Coach
6. Dare to Lead
7. Multipliers
8. Five Dysfunctions of a Team
9. Art of Gathering

As always, we would love to hear from you! Leave us your comments and don’t forget to subscribe to CryRoom on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or at www.cryroom.com so you don’t miss out on valuable tips that will help you grow in your career!

In episode 7, we dive into ownership and accountability.   Ownership requires going beyond what may be written in your job description. Learning how to do this well and how to take full accountability for results will help you in multiple aspects of your life. 

In this episode, we breakdown:
- The difference between Ownership and Accountability.
- Thinking like an owner.
- How to move quickly from the embarrassment of making a mistake to taking accountability of the mistake and fixing it.
- How being known for ownership and accountability can help you stand out in the crowd and lead to rewards in your career.

As always, we would love to hear from you! Leave us your comments and don’t forget to subscribe to CryRoom on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, or at www.cryroom.com so you don’t miss out on valuable tips that will help you grow in your career!

In episode 6, we cover giving and receiving feedback including why constructive feedback is critical to our ability to learn and grow in our careers, how to prepare someone to receive feedback and how to approach a feedback conversation successfully. 

In this episode, we discuss specific areas surrounding feedback:

1. Constructive feedback is critical and it is important for companies and the people leading them to create cultures where feedback is not only expected, but honest and appreciated.
2. The need to remain data driven and unemotional in both giving and receiving feedback.
3. Breaking down feedback conversations into a framework: situation, impact and outcome.
4. Feedback is a gift! You don’t have to accept it or do anything with it.

Resources: 

1. Radical Candor - Kim Scott

2. No Rules Rules - Reed Hastings 

3. Dare to Lead - Brene Brown

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In the final installment of our 3 part series, we provide tactical and actionable tips for using your calendar, managing emails and more so you can effectively manage your time and align that time to support your personal and professional goals.  

Specifically we walk through the following:

-Weekly planning habits to taking control of your time
-Calendar and other productivity tools
-Emails: how to manage them
-Being busy vs effective

In Episode 4 and part two of our series on how to take control of your time, we discuss starting your own business with our guests, Julie Trias and Elizabeth Nammour, the co-founders of TeleskopeAI.    We also talk about how to exercise more control over what you spend most of your time on at work as an employee and how to figure out what you want to spend more time on.

In Episode 3, our co-hosts begin a multi-part series around how to take control of your life and time.  This includes exploring the concepts of Work Life Balance and Work Life Integration and providing actionable guidance on how to start taking control of your time and life.

In Episode 2, we focus on Disagree and Commit, a concept that everyone should learn early on since we will never agree with all of the decisions that are made at work or in our personal lives. 

Episode 1 of the CryRoom podcast provides an introduction to your hosts, Ella Irwin and Jess Anderson and then dives into one of the toughest things people face in their careers, which is handling criticism.