40% Better - Engineering Leadership

Lisa-Maree Blumenfeld, has 20+ years of HR experience.We had a wide ranging conversation around HR, people at work, and avoiding pitfalls. Prior to starting Retain, Lisa was the VP of People at Expa, where she led a centralized HR and Recruiting team that worked on behalf of 20+ startups.Prior to Expa, Lisa worked with fast-moving startups (Lyft, NinthDecimal, Aria Systems) as well as with larger Fortune 500 companies (PG&E, Blue Shield of California).Lisa-Maree is also a fan of DIY projects and power tools.

Effective leadership isn't a philosophy - it's a stack of behaviors driven by tiny details. Overlooking these details is why we have so many disengaged and low performing employees. Details matter when you want a high performing team.

When people ask me "how do you do that?", the answer is often "by overcoming emotional friction". At the core, that's what Emotional Resilience is - overcoming emotional friction. Often team leads are stopped from doing what their team needs - because of their emotional friction. Here's how to get past that friction.

Leverage - using somethign to the maximum advantage One of my early mentors taught me the importance of Individual Contributors for company revenue, product development, and client happiness.And how team leads had the most impact on the Individual Contributors.

Ask more questions. Ask different questions. You can learn a lot from and about your team by asking questions - and getting them what they want. 

Professor Rao and I had a wide ranging chat about leadership, emotional intelligence, and employee engagement. Professor M.S. Rao, Ph.D.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/professormsrao Substack: https://professormsrao.substack.comFounder of MSR Leadership Consultants, IndiaAmazon: http://www.amazon.com/M.-S.-Rao/e/B00MB63BKMVision 2030: https://professormsraovision2030.blogspot.com X: http://twitter.com/professormsrao YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProfessorMSRao Meta: https://www.facebook.com/Professor-MS-Rao-451516514937414 See the Light in You: https://www.amazon.com/See-Light-You-Spiritual-Mindfulness/dp/1949003132

Most employees are disengaged, frustrated, and low performing at work.When we meet a happy and high performing employee - what are the behaviors of their team lead that makes this happen?First up is finding and removing friction.Smart team leads know this is crucial to great team performance.

Suraj wanted to be an astronaut - he may still get there :-)Suraj is on a mission to equip you with unparalleled leadership skills, strategic planning, and team-building expertise for groundbreaking roles in technology.Learn more about Suraj's work at https://grounow.comor send an email to [email protected] you!

Sean has had a fascinating career spent spanning over 20 years as an executive in media, advertising, publishing and film production managing and developing sales, marketing, and creative teams.He studied performance at the Juilliard School and finance at Wharton. As an award winning musician and multi-instrumentalist, he borrows techniques from jazz improvisation to help foster creative collaboration and cooperation within and across teams.I do enjoy having people with diverse skills on the podcast :-)