Episodes 97
Avg. Duration 22m
Activity Dormant
Since Aug 2016
Latest Episode Mar 2025

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Every 2 Weeks
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About This Podcast

Season 4: Join co-hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti as they chat about what they've learned through their time leading teams. Season 3: Oh No, My Team's Gone Remote! Seasons 1 and 2: Improve your management and leadership practice over a cup of coffee and get a book recommendation too. The role of the manager is evolving as technology helps us to self-organise and take more control of how and where we work from. In this podcast, Pilar Orti from Virtual not Distant, dissects modern management practice, not just for official managers, but for team members who want to make things happen too.

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MC93 Knowing When to Move On - our final episode

Mar 10, 2025 33m

Yes, this is Tim and Pilar's last episode, so we talk about moving on and the importance of wrapping things up. Interview with Andy Gotts photographer that Pilar mentions:…

MC92 Manager Mindset: Perfectionism

Feb 03, 2025 18m

In this episode, hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about the dangers of being a perfectionist when managing a team, and why it's different to being a perfectionist individual contributor. (And…

MC91 Manager Mindset: Loyalty

Jan 13, 2025 29m

Hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti have a good chat about the nature of loyalty, who we should be loyal to at work and what happens when we get the balance wrong.

A quick thank you and we'll be back next year!

Dec 02, 2024 4m

Have an excellent start to 2025 - from Tim and Pilar. www.managementcafepodcast.com

MC90 Manager Mindset: Pessimism

Nov 18, 2024 23m

Who knew that talking about pessimism could be so much fun... even if most of the laughter is self-deprecating. In today's episode, hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about what happens when we…

MC89 Manager Mindset: Comparison

Oct 28, 2024 24m

The new series on Manager Mindsets starts with a discussion of comparison. Comparison is unavoidable, especially in the age of social media. It can feed difficult and unpleasant emotions like doubt,…

MC88 Feedback, Mindset vs Cognitive Tendencies and Long-Covid Awareness

Oct 14, 2024 18m

As co-hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti wrap up the Manager Emotions series, they explain why they're moving onto mindset, and how this is different from cognitivie tendencies (and why they might well…

MC87 Manager Emotions: Confusion

Sep 30, 2024 27m

Our hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about the many times they've been confused, the difficulties in feeling the emotion as individual and manager, and what happens when a team member becomes…

MC86 Manager Emotions: Compassion

Sep 16, 2024 16m

For the sixth episode of our series on manager emotions, Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about Compassion. Good leaders don't just remove obstacles and show their people the way forward. People…

MC85 Manager Emotions: Pride

Sep 02, 2024 22m

Welcome to the fifth episode of our series on manager emotions, where hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti talk about Pride. We want to see good work, both in ourselves as managers and also in the…

MC84 Emotional Contagion (part of the Manager Emotions season)

Aug 19, 2024 32m

For the fourth episode of our series on manager emotions we talk about Emotional Contagion, as it's something that keeps coming up. Emotional Contagion describes how one person's emotions can…

We've got some feedback! On anger and emotions.

Aug 12, 2024 7m

Many thanks to Catherine Nicholson from Virtual Training Team for sharing her thoughts on emotions at work and anger, after listening to the first episode of the manager emotions series. We share her…

MC83 Manager Emotions: Hopelessness

Aug 05, 2024 31m

We continue with our Manager Emotions series. So much of our work culture is about productivity. Traits like productivity, positivity, drive and a strong work ethic are idolised. We are often…

MC82 Manager Emotions: Joy

Jul 08, 2024 26m

We continue with our Manager Emotions series. Today's episode is all about joy. We remind ourselves of what it feels like, but we also wonder whether it's always ok to express it. Join Tim Burgess…

MC81 Manager Emotions: Anger

Jun 24, 2024 33m

This marks the first of our series on manager emotions, where we discuss some of feelings we experience at work. Anger is one of the more complex emotions for a manager to navigate. Anger is about…

MC80 Why Do We Procrastinate? (or what is procrastination, anyway?)

Jun 10, 2024 27m

Join our hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti. Most of us are familiar with avoiding a task that we should be doing. But is there more to it? On the one hand we worry that procrastination leads us to…

MC79 Context is Everything!

May 27, 2024 20m

A theme we keep coming back to in the Management Café is the importance of context. In each situation there are many variables that influence what happens. For example the company culture, our…

MC78 Helping Employees Avoid Burnout from Challenging Tasks

May 13, 2024 27m

Step into the Management Café with your hosts Tim Burgess and Pilar Orti. This conversation was inspired by an article Pilar read in Organizational Dynamics: "How managers can help employees…

We'd love your input into our new series on Manager Emotions

May 06, 2024 4m

A short bonus episode to let you know what's brewing in the Management Café. In about a month, we'll be starting a new series, on manager emotions. In each episode, we'll dive into a specific…

MC77 Evaluating Potential in the People We Manage

Apr 29, 2024 28m

Our hosts in the Management Café believe that everyone has the potential to be better at something. And for them, as for many of us, helping someone grow is one of the most rewarding aspects of being…

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