The first thing is to get everybody to really know each other as people, create alignment. My team was much more diverse than most teams at Google. And there were a lot of women who felt like the men in the room of the ones dominating the conversation. Because of how video conferencing works, those people often couldn't get a word in edgewise.
https://fellow.app/supermanagers/brian-elliott-how-slack-svp-approaches-culture-and-provides-flexibility/
Middle managers don’t have it easy.
They actually have worse stress levels than anybody else, including individual contributors and executives.
In episode #120, Brian shares many results and interesting statistics done from pulse surveys at Future Forum on the way people are working.
Brian Elliott is the Executive Leader of the Future Forum, a consortium launched by Slack to enable leaders to redesign work to be better for people and organizations. Prior to Slack, Brian was General Manager of Google Express, Google’s full stack commerce platform.
Brian shares how managers are coping and what kind of strategies are actually working, what is workplace culture and how to offer real flexibility.
Tune in to hear all about Brian’s leadership journey and the lessons learned along the way!
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