Leadership Made Easy Podcast

Leadership Made Easy

Bernd Geropp: Leadership and Management Expert
This podcast is for you, if you are a manager, executive or a supervisor who wants to know, how to get the most out of your team, so that your employees start meeting deadlines, doing things right and exceeding your expectations. With this podcast you learn how to lead a highly effective team, how to make sure, things get done and how to deal with tough issues like confronting an employee performance problem, getting along with a bad boss or balancing the demands of work with your personal life. We are talking about delegation, feedback, business vision, strategy, motivation, employee engagement, effective meetings, recruitment, mindset, goals, team work, onboarding and change management and a lot of other stuff.
LME 034 - Tips For First-Time Managers
Today I talk with Mike Ashie from the YouTube channel: "Leadership with Mike" about tips for first-time managers. Find his YouTube channel Leadership with Mike here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX_oT8liQty9EL7ZJVpz3RA Find the Shownotes here: https://www.berndgeropp.com/tips-for-first-time-managers-with-mike-ashie
Jun 27, 2021
31 min
lme033 - How I Learned To Delegate
When I founded my first company, a high-tech start-up, together with a partner more than 25 years ago, I had a completely wrong idea of ​​managing people. In this post, I'll talk about how I learned to delegate and give you tips on how you can learn it, too. Find the shownotes here: https://www.berndgeropp.com/how-i-learned-to-delegate/ If you'd like to watch the video, check it out here: https://youtu.be/y1PJpAMeuyg Subscribe to my leadership impulses here: https://www.berndgeropp.com/subscribe/  
Jun 26, 2021
14 min
LME032 - Why I quit my job as a highly paid manager!
A manager always works in a sandwich position. I explain my struggles with it and why I decided to leave the corporate world more than 10 years ago. Shownotes: berndgeropp.com/quit-job Watch the video here: https://youtu.be/QnTTgi1nPSs
May 24, 2021
9 min
LME-031 - Why one-on-one meetings?
One-one-one meetings create trust: Why do you need them? What do you actually talk about and how often should you do one-on-ones? Shownotes: https://www.berndgeropp.com/one-on-one-meetings Video: https://youtu.be/QPsUBZsCFps
Nov 5, 2020
10 min
LME030 - New as a manager: 5 important tips
When you are new in your manager role, you surely don’t want to make any unnecessary mistakes, don’t you? You want to become a good manager. To meet the challenges of your new role, I will give you my five best practical tips to become a good leader. You'# find the shownotes here: https://berndgeropp.com/episode030 If you like to watch the highly entertaining YouTube-video-version, click here: https://youtu.be/_wlwpSXVfp0
Oct 6, 2020
12 min
lme029 - How to set goals with your employees
Goal setting with employees is not easy. How can you be successful with it? Here are my 5 most important tips you should know! Find the Shownotes here: berndgeropp.com/set-goals-with-employees  
Aug 11, 2020
11 min
LME028 - What do you wish you knew, before becoming a successful leader?
Today I invited 5 leaders with different backgrounds. I wanted to know from them, what they wish they knew, before becoming successful leaders. You'll find the shownotes wiht all the links to the participants here: https://berndgeropp.com/what-do-you-wish-you-knew
Jul 20, 2020
11 min
LME 027 - One-on-one meetings!
As a leader you should have one-on-one meetings with your direct reports regularly. But how do you introduce one on ones to your direct reports? How does such an one-on-one meeting work? How do you get started and what exactly should you say in such meetings? You'll find the shownotes of this episode here: https://www.berndgeropp.com/one-on-ones/ If you'd like to watch the video, click here: https://youtu.be/ojlIF1asmTU    
Jul 12, 2020
13 min
lme026 - Entrepreneurs Rocket Fuel - Interview with Mark C. Winters
Today we talk about why it needs not just one but two entrepreneurs to build a successful business and why it is essential that these two have dramatically different roles. I talk about this with Mark C. Winters who is the co-author of the book rocket fuel. If you are an entrepreneur or you work for a small business, this interview may be an eye opener for you.  Click here for the shownotes: https://berndgeropp.com/episode026
May 12, 2020
44 min
lme025 - Leading in times of crisis
How can you control the chaos? How you can stay calm and positive with in the storm and how can you engage the hearts and minds of your people in tough times. Shownotes: https://berndgeropp.com/leading-in-times-of-crisis
Apr 12, 2020
20 min
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