Podcasts Business Management Muscles with Lara Hogan

Management Muscles with Lara Hogan

Published: June 13, 2019, 7 a.m.

Did your first management gig come with a small pay bump and zero training? Ours too! But being good at doing a job doesn’t mean you’ll automatically be good at managing people doing it. That’s where our guest, Lara Hogan, comes in!

Lara is an author, public speaker, and coach for managers and leaders across the tech industry. Her latest book, Resilient Management, is brand-new this week. We’re huge fans of the way Lara throws out the playbook of a domineering boss who aims to intimidate. Instead, she’s all about nurturing, coaching, and sponsoring people— so they can grow and reach their goals. And she does it all with empathy, warmth, and humility. Love.

Find [people] an opportunity. Put your name on the line for them, put your reputation on the line for them, and help them get opportunities that they are looking for.
—Lara Hogan, author of Resilient Management

We chat about:

  • Lara’s new book, Resilient Management!
  • Why there’s more to managing than just mentoring, and how to start sponsoring and coaching people, too.
  • What goes into training to be a leadership coach, and how to find the program that’s best for you.
  • Why moving desks in your office seems like a pretty small thing but is actually often a Big Deal in the workplace, and what that can teach us about humans’ core needs at work.
  • Why it’s a must to get to know people who aren’t just like you in the workplace and find ways to sponsor them in their areas of interest, rather than defaulting to what you think might benefit them.

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Plus:

  • Screwing up when you’re the boss.
  • Crying at work.
  • Still worrying about that weird thing you said at a party in 2004.
  • Realizing not having a boss is great...until you have no one to help you grow.
  • Being on the receiving end of a thousand “I want to talk to your supervisor” conversations.
  • Giving a big fuck yeah to the badass women who rolled up their sleeves and helped us make our first Collective Strength event happen!