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The Middle Manager ShowEP13: How’s your relationship with your HR department? The Importance of strong middle management and the value of a strong collaboration between people managers and HR to cultivate great talentHow much of your time as a manager is spent on building the career path for your team members? How much time do you spend coaching? How much of your time do you spend collaborating with HR to implement programs and tools that will support your team to achieve their goals? This episode talks about managing and developing your team, whether they are rockstars, superstars, or individual contributors. In this episode we will be with an expert professional coach and HR practitioner, Mr. Teddy Ruiz Jr.Teddy is an ICF Professional coach with hands-on leadership experience in...
2021-11-2932 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP12: Am I manager if I don’t have my own team? How do I lead from this position? Featuring Jo Gamos, Global Business Development Manager & Alvin Galvez, Corporate Planning ManagerHow important are reporting lines as a manager? How do you manage across departments and markets? When we talk about being a manager, we usually think that the position includes managing your team but it’s not always the case. By definition, you are a manager when you manage a process, a certain function in an organization, or maybe a project. It depends on the scope of work and the organizational design. You can also manager other people across departments. For today’s episode we invited two managers who have exactly this experience.Our first guest is Jo G...
2021-11-1524 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP11: Shaping and protecting the culture based on different management scenarios: featuring Blen Fernando, Chief Brand and Marketing Consultant, Board of Director and Chairwoman, PhilippinesPart 2 of my conversation with Blen focused on discussing different management scenarios and how shaping and protecting the culture of the team and the company plays a big part in how you handle them. We asked about Blen’s experiences in scenarios such as, handling a difficult team manager, firing an employee, and managing your boss! We also talked about, how do you know when to let go of an employee and when to give more chances? In this episode, we give you real-life examples on how to manage these scenarios coupled with tips and advices you can use....
2021-11-0828 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP10: Middle Management 101: Leading with heart and passion: featuring Blen Fernando, Chief Brand and Marketing Communications Consultant, Board of Director and Chairwoman, PhilippinesWondering if you are doing things right as a manager? Here’s another perspective but this time from someone who has handled different types of managers. In this episode we will try to answer questions such as what are the mistakes that middle managers usually make? And what makes an excellent middle manager? This is probably a Middle Manager 101 from managing up, down, and across with real life examples!DISCLAIMER: This episode has a lot of static and dogs in the background because of technical difficulties so please bear with us.Blen Fernando is the Ch...
2021-10-2530 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP9: I’m newly promoted, now how do I get from Point A to Point B? From an Interior designer to an operations manager featuring Cley dela Calzada, Design Studio Vito SelmaMy boss told me to go to point B is, now how do we get there from point A? Today we will be talking to a new manager! She is an interior designer turned into an operations manager at the Design Studio Vito Selma and Casa Selma. And this also happened in the midst of the pandemic. This week's episode is Cley dela Calzada!Follow us in our accounts to get updates and download the free resources: https://linktr.ee/themiddlemanagershowIf you are having a hard time with linktree, here are the individual links:
2021-10-1820 min
The Middle Manager ShowHow do you build the north star for your team in middle the pandemic? Featuring: Faizal Sulaiman, Head of Logistika, MalaysiaAre you managing a start-up team under a corporate start-up and wondering how you will go about it? Are you looking at innovating your team? How do you use the chaos and uncertainty to your team’s advantage?Listen to Faizal Sulaiman, Head of Logistika Malaysia. Faizal is responsible for spearheading the overall growth and financial performance of Logistika which was built in 2020 from ground up as Petrona’s new venture into the e-commerce and logistics space! Before this he has taken multiple leadership roles from engineering to commercial. He is a non conformist who believes in chal...
2021-10-1124 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP7: How do we prepare ourselves for difficult and emotionally tasking conversations? Featuring Ampy Corpus of Spurwing Communications, SingaporeIs it natural for you to line manage? Are you putting on hold that difficult but important conversation with your boss or you team? Managing is at least 80% people management and the reality is it’s not always rainbows and butterflies. But it is learning how to handle difficult people and situations that we learn more about relationship building and about ourselves.In this episode I had a good conversation with Ampy about managing difficult conversations and giving feedback. Ampy Corpus is part of the leadership team of Spurwing Communications and has more than 15 years of experience in...
2021-10-0421 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP6: How important is sensemaking in your job as a middle manager? Featuring Allenie Caccam, Head of Marketing, Philippines AirAsiaAre middle managers just messengers? How do we play a proactive role in decision making? How do we make sense of our role as a team player and a decision maker? In this episode we will talk about an important skill of managers which is sensemaking, the ability to contextualize and make sense of the external world in relation to yourself or to your company so you can better create solutions to address a problem or conflict. We will look at sensemaking in two angles. The first is in relation to managing stakeholders that means how we use sensemaking...
2021-09-2718 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP5: How do you manage your team in the midst of ambiguity? Featuring Ken Banzon, Head of Product, OLX GroupHow do you manage your business and your team in a constantly changing environment? As managers, we don’t only manage the business, we also manage the ambiguity of situations and the contextualizing realities for it to make sense to our team. Ken shares her knowledge about the changing work environment in the tech and product space and some tips on how she manages her team.Ken Banzon is the Head of Product in OLX Group based in Berlin, Germany. She has been with Naspers / OLX since 2013. Outside of work, she likes reading, listening and playing music, an...
2021-09-2019 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP4: Are you hesitating to give feedback? Let’s talk about bravely managing diversity, Featuring: Ken Banzon, Head of Product, OLX GroupAre you managing in a diverse group across different cultures and generations? Do you have hesitations in giving feedback? Are you having second thoughts on becoming a credible manager? In this episode, Ken talks about how she built her confidence in managing not only in a diverse environment but also in a new country!Ken Banzon is the Head of Product in OLX Group based in Berlin, Germany. She has been with Naspers / OLX since 2013. Outside of work, she likes reading, listening and playing music, and doing outdoor sports!Don’t forget to follow me on...
2021-09-1317 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP 3: What are some crucial lessons as a manager? And how do we lead in a diverse workplace, Featuring: Jonathan Yabut, Winner of Apprentice Asia and Dubbed as Asia’s Millennial Guru!Some hard questions you can ask yourself now that you are a manager: Are you an individual worker? Do you see your team as people working FOR you? That you can USE them to get more job done? Do you think that as a manager you are self-centered? Find out how Jonathan navigated through these questions before he became the founder of his own company, and an expert on creating motivational workshops on leadership and talent development!Jonathan Yabut is the Filipino winner of Apprentice Asia, Dubbed as Asia’s Millennial Guru, and Founder and Managing Director of...
2021-09-0626 min
The Middle Manager ShowEP2: How can we lead from the middle? How can we be connecting leaders?Here is my caveat, when we talk about good leadership and management, it usually pertains to top management but leading and managing looks different from the middle. We don’t have the last say and sometimes we end up in situations where we don’t agree with the direction but have to implement anyway. How then can we live up to the ideal leader and manager we want to be while we are in the middle?Follow us in our accounts to get updates and download the free resources: https://linktr.ee/themiddlemanagershowIf you are...
2021-08-3017 minThe Middle Manager ShowEP1: Are you always caught between your boss and your team? Let's talk about the Middle Manager's Dilemma!As part of the middle management you are expected by senior leaders to operationalize their vision and strategy into the day to day tasks and processes while your team looks up to you to make sure the top management understands the realities of their experience while those strategies are executed on ground. This is where the dilemma comes in. Find out more about it and what is the first step to address it. Join our private community in LinkedIn to download the free resources, get updates, and have fruitful conversations with me and fellow managers! Fol...
2021-08-2315 min
The Middle Manager ShowIntroduction to the Middle Manager ShowWelcome to my podcast world! I am Len and this episode will be short and sweet. So did you just get promoted or want to get promoted to manager but you have no idea what it entails? Or find yourself always in the middle of discussions and decisions between your boss and your team or with other departments? Then this podcast is for you! I'm still in the middle management for 11 years now and thought of sharing my experiences and lessons to help you navigate the complexities of it. In this episode, I'm sharing a little background about myself...
2021-08-2103 min
MARKETECH APAC PodcastMARKETECH Mondays | Allenie Caccam, Head of Marketing, Philippines AirAsia | PhilippinesIt would be hard to believe that Allenie Caccam, the head of marketing of one of the biggest airlines in Asia, AirAsia, in the Philippines is a self-confessed introvert–but now that she boasts of more than ten years of PR and marketing experience, you would think–she must have done something right.
Allenie didn’t just thrive her way to an industry that is still mostly tagged as an extrovert’s world, but she did it with so much excellence that she rose through the ranks to become a top executive of a top airline brand.
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2021-07-2426 min