The Power Skills Project

In this episode, Adam and James discuss some of the challenges your people face at work, including pressure from senior employees (and salespeople!), intra-team conflict, and general wellbeing.

Show Notes

Do your team respect you? Do they know you have their back?

If you want to ensure optimum performance for your people, they need security, and that comes from YOU.

There are challenges on all sides of the workplace. Whether it’s senior employees pushing for deadlines, excessive meetings sucking up time, or the office atmosphere destroying productivity, everyone faces obstacles to getting their best work done.

If you’re a leader, it’s your job to remove as many of these obstacles as possible, to protect your team. 

In this podcast, Adam and James discuss a variety of ways to do so, including:
  • Protecting people from unfair or unconstructive criticism
  • Cultivating the right atmosphere
  • Saying ‘no’ to unrealistic requests
  • Taking responsibility for the collective
  • Acting as a proxy for communication to protect people’s time

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References from the pod

Take Care of Employees: Protect Them at All Costs, Marcus Le Monis.

How to Protect Your Team From Burnout (thriveglobal.com), Manage the Whole Human

Mintzberg on Management| Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster (simonandschuster.com), Henry Mintzberg

Managing Yourself: The Boss as Human Shield (hbr.org), HBR.

What is The Power Skills Project?

The Power Skills Project is a free podcast from Assemble You (https://assembleyou.com).

You may not have heard the term Power Skills before, but you’ve probably heard of soft skills.

We think Power Skills better acknowledges the importance and impact of things like leadership, resilience, productivity, and communication. The transferable superpowers that are some of the most valuable skills you can develop.

We’re all works in progress, and we want to improve ourselves and share our improvements with you - that’s why we chose to call this the Power Skills Project.

Every week, we discuss essential skills like active listening, motivating people, confidence, curiosity or dealing with change. We interview experts and practitioners across a myriad of industries and share their stories and learn from their experiences.

We'd love for you to drop by and listen in!