305: Breaking the Cycle of Ineffective Leadership
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Aoife O'Brien discusses the importance of equipping people leaders with essential skills to inspire and retain talent, highlighting the dangers of untrained managers.
Are your people leaders equipped to inspire, engage, and retain your top talent? In this solo episode of the Happier at Work podcast, Aoife O'Brien delves into the crucial role of people leaders and why so many organisations inadvertently set managers, and their teams up for failure. Drawing from her recent book launch and audience Q&A at Google in Dublin, Aoife unpacks the dangers of promoting high-performing individual contributors without providing them with essential leadership training. Backed by research and personal experience, she sheds light on the staggering hidden costs of untrained managers, from disengaged employees to sky-high attrition rates. She highlights effective strategies for building psychologically safe, high-performing teams within the Thriving Talent Framework and offers actionable insights on the three core skills every manager needs. In This Episode, You’ll Discover: The key driver of both employee turnover and disengagement at work. The importance of psychological safety for thriving teams, enabling open dialogue, creativity, and resilience, even amidst change. Why untrained managers are prone to inconsistency, micromanagement, and avoiding…
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