The Love Monday Podcast

7:55

156. Why Companies Keep Creating Bad Managers: The...

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2026/10/07

Send us Fan Mail Gallup found that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for a manager role 82% of the time. But that statistic only measures manager selection. What happens after someone gets promoted may be an even bigger problem. In this episode of Love Monday, Ryan Houmand explores why bad management isn’t just a hiring or promotion problem—it’s a management development problem. Too many organizations promote strong individual contributors into leadership roles, giv...

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9:17

155. Do You Know What It's Like to Be Managed by You?...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/10/01

Send us Fan Mail What is it actually like to be managed by you? In this off-the-cuff midweek episode, Ryan Houmand gives the history of the Manager Mirror™. Most managers know their intentions. Far fewer know their impact. In this special episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand introduces Manager Mirror™, a multi-rater manager assessment designed to answer one deceptively simple question: What is it like to be managed by you? Traditional employee engagement surveys tell you how emplo...

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6:10

154. Are You a Good Manager? How Your Employees...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/10/01

Send us Fan Mail Do you know what it’s actually like to be managed by you? Most managers know what they intend to create—trust, accountability, autonomy, growth—but employees experience leadership from a very different perspective. That gap between leadership intention and employee experience may be one of your biggest management blind spots. In this episode of Love Monday, Ryan Houmand explores manager self-awareness, employee engagement, leadership blind spots, coaching, feedback, and why g...

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14:59

153. AI Replacing Managers? Here’s What Companies Are...

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2026/09/23

Send us Fan Mail Is AI replacing managers? As companies embrace artificial intelligence, flatten organizational structures, cut middle management, and use AI to automate more workplace tasks, the role of the manager is changing fast. But companies may be confusing managing work with managing people. In this episode of Love Monday Like Friday, Ryan Houmand looks at recent business news around AI, layoffs, middle managers, and the future of work—and asks a different question: What if the bigges...

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20:31

152. AI Won’t Kill Management. It Might Finally Fix It.

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/09/15

Send us Fan Mail AI is getting remarkably good at managing work—analyzing data, tracking projects, documenting meetings, finding bottlenecks, and automating tasks. So what happens to managers? Maybe they finally get to manage people. In this episode, Ryan explores why AI could expose one of corporate America’s biggest mistakes: confusing managing work with managing humans. From Meta bringing managers back after years of flattening, to new research showing that employees using AI most frequent...

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15:27

151. Are You Managing People or Chairs?

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/09/09

Send us Fan Mail What if the problem with management isn’t that companies have too many managers—but that managers are managing the wrong thing? As companies flatten organizations, increase spans of control, and turn to AI to automate more work, we need to rethink what management is actually for. In this episode of Love Monday Like Friday, Ryan explores the critical difference between managing work and managing people. Managing work means coordinating tasks, schedules, workflows, deadlines, m...

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12:39

150. Fix It Before Private Equity Does

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/08/21

Send us Fan Mail Private equity doesn’t usually show up because everything is working beautifully. It shows up when organizations have left value on the table—and too often, that includes the value locked inside their people. In this episode of Love Monday, Ryan Houmand explores why employee engagement surveys, 360 feedback, and tools like the Love Monday Manager System™ shouldn’t be treated as HR exercises. They’re early-warning systems. They can tell you where managers are struggling, where...

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11:03

149. Your Employees Aren't Being Quiet. They're...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/08/11

Send us Fan Mail Why do employees stop speaking up—even when leaders say they want honesty? Emotional safety at work isn’t created by an open-door policy. It’s created by what happens after someone disagrees, asks a hard question, makes a mistake, or shows some personality. Employees are always reading the room and calculating whether honesty will be useful—or expensive. In this episode, Ryan explores how leadership behavior, vague standards of “professionalism,” status, and subtle correction...

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17:55

148. Everybody Needs a Coach...Even Coaches Need a Coach

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/08/04

Send us Fan Mail Everybody needs a coach—even coaches. When LinkedIn rewarded one of my posts with a single impression after eight hours, I declared, “LinkedIn is dead.” Then Adam, a LinkedIn coach I had worked with before, reached out and asked one simple question: “Do you want to talk?” What followed wasn’t a lecture or an elaborate LinkedIn strategy. It was exactly what good coaching should be: timely perspective, a few useful reminders, genuine curiosity, and the encouragement I needed to...

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13:34

147. How Leaders Destroy Dream Jobs

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/07/27

Send us Fan Mail Most employees don't start a new job planning to become disengaged. They arrive excited, hopeful, and believing they've landed their dream opportunity. So what changes? In this episode we explore one of the biggest responsibilities of leadership: protecting—not destroying—that excitement. You'll learn: Why nearly every employee starts with optimism. How managers unintentionally turn dream jobs into jobs people dread. The everyday leadership behavi...

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12:04

146. Why Every Workplace Problem Is Really a...

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2026/07/21

Send us Fan Mail Why Every Workplace Problem Is Really a Leadership Problem When a workplace feels chaotic, it's easy to blame the employees, the workload, the customers, or even the culture. But what if those are just symptoms? In this episode of Love Monday Like Friday, Ryan explores a simple idea that changes the way you look at organizations: almost every business problem can be traced back to leadership. From unclear accountability and poor communication to burnout, conflict, low engagem...

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11:28

145. The Real Problem Isn't the Employee—It's the...

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2026/07/07

Send us Fan Mail A manager was struggling with a promotion decision because one of his employees became emotional and frustrated when work went wrong. At first, it looked like a performance issue. But after asking a few more questions, the real problem emerged. The employee wasn't creating the frustration—she was reacting to poor-quality work being handed off from another team. The issue wasn't emotional maturity. It was a broken process and a lack of communication between managers. In this e...

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16:27

144. HR vs Leadership: Why They See Different Problems

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/06/29

Send us Fan Mail Employee engagement, company culture, manager effectiveness, employee experience, leadership development, HR strategy—who actually owns these outcomes? In this Real-Life Sitch episode, Ryan shares a coaching conversation with an HR leader frustrated that her CEO didn't seem concerned about culture, compliance, organizational risk, or employee relations. The deeper they explored the issue, the more important the question became: Are HR and leaders solving different problems, o...

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11:38

143. The Problem Isn't Communication. It's Courage

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/06/22

Send us Fan Mail Most managers think they have a communication problem. They don't. In this episode, Ryan shares a coaching conversation with a manager who believed poor communication was at the root of a difficult workplace issue. But as the conversation unfolded, a deeper truth emerged: the challenge wasn't communication at all—it was courage. Why do managers avoid feedback? Why do leaders delay difficult conversations? Why do organizations hide behind emails, processes, and meetings instea...

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8:26

142. The Simple Test of Leadership: Will They Follow?

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/06/15

Send us Fan Mail What makes someone a true leader? Is it a title, authority, experience, or results? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand explores the simplest test of leadership: Would people willingly follow you if your title disappeared tomorrow? Learn the difference between compliance and commitment, why employee engagement is really a followership issue, and what great managers do differently to earn trust, loyalty, and discretionary effort. If you're a manager, execu...

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8:21

141. The 3 Manager Blind Spots That Quietly Kill...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/06/08

Send us Fan Mail Why do good employees disengage, burn out, or quietly quit even under “good” managers? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand breaks down the three biggest leadership blind spots he sees in management today: emotional disconnect, coaching avoidance, and lack of employee advocacy. Learn how these management behaviors impact employee engagement, retention, culture, and performance — often without leaders realizing it. If you’re interested in leadership develop...

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7:43

140. From Insight to Action: Where Most Leaders Drop...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/06/01

Send us Fan Mail Most leadership assessments stop at awareness. A manager gets a score, glances at a report, and nothing changes. In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand explains why the real value of the Love Monday Manager QB Rating™ isn’t the score itself — it’s the coaching and action that happen afterward. Learn how dimension-level feedback reveals leadership blind spots, improves employee engagement, and helps organizations build better managers instead of simply rating...

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9:55

139. The 9 Dimensions That Actually Define a Great...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/05/27

Send us Fan Mail What actually makes a manager effective? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I break down the 9 core dimensions that define great management—based on real-world experience, employee engagement data, and what actually drives team performance. Most companies either don’t measure managers at all… or they measure the wrong things. The result? Inconsistent leadership, disengaged teams, and missed performance. Building on the idea of a “QB Rating” for managers and the evolu...

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12:22

138. From Scorecard to System: The Missing Piece in...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/05/19

Send us Fan Mail What if measuring manager performance isn’t enough? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I build on last week’s concept of a “QB Rating” for managers—a simple, objective way to evaluate how effectively a manager is leading their team. But after pressure-testing the idea with a leader experienced in 360 feedback systems, something became clear: A score alone doesn’t develop managers. And feedback without a score lacks clarity and comparability. So what’s the answer? In ...

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13:06

137. What If We Could Measure Managers Like We Do...

The Love Monday Podcast ·

2026/05/11

Send us Fan Mail What if managers were evaluated like quarterbacks? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I introduce the concept behind the Love Monday Manager QB Rating™ — a new way to think about leadership, employee engagement, and manager effectiveness. We’ve got stats for athletes, KPIs for businesses, and performance reviews for employees… but almost no meaningful way to evaluate a manager’s ability to actually lead people. That’s a problem. Because managers impact nearly everyth...

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