Category: HR & People Resources

[Power Hour Wrap-Up] How to create a feedback culture

A culture of feedback sounds simple enough, right? In reality, it takes a delicate balance to create one, and if implemented thoughtfully, the returns are limitless for any manager’s team.

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[Webinar recap] HR “Non” Priorities: What seasoned People pros are not focused on in 2023

It’s noisy out there for HR and People teams right now. Every week, a new headline or buzzy trend hits LinkedIn about where HR and People teams should be focused – notably, the “greats” (resignation, reshuffle, refocus), the “quiets” (quitting, firing, etc), the four-day work week… the list goes on.

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[Power Hour Wrap-Up] How to nail your 1:1s

As a manager, your main job is setting your direct reports up for success. At The Mintable, our main job is helping you get there. 1:1 meetings are without a doubt, one of the best tools at your disposal. These meetings between manager and report are sacred, dedicated, recurring times where the sole focus of the discussion is making sure the employee has everything they need to be successful.

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Discover our Q1 Power Hour lineup

Last year, The Mintable launched a brand new live learning feature for managers – Power Hours. Today, after receiving awesome feedback from both our manager community and the HR teams supporting them, we’re excited to introduce our brand new lineup of Power Hour topics for Q1.

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[Insights from our Expert Speaker Series] Building connection & wellbeing with Etsy’s Roberto Martinez

In this month’s Expert Speaker Series for our Mintable Managers we talked about building connection and driving wellbeing with Roberto Martinez, Human Resources Business Partner at Etsy and formerly Director of diversity and inclusion at Rhino.

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[Webinar recap] The Unsaid: Giving managers a tool kit to deal with the tough stuff

Death, divorce, menopause, miscarriage, infertility, burnout and mental ill-health. These are just some of the challenging life situations that managers are helping their employees deal with every day. And this is in addition to being tasked with the more traditionally recognized aspects of the role – like managing team performance, meeting targets, and driving bottom line growth. Basically, our managers are stretched and desperate for support.

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[Power Hour wrap-Up] Effective employee offboarding

Employee offboarding is often considered to be the end of an era between employer and employee. But it can also be the beginning of an entirely new relationship with the departing employee – if their manager handles the transition like a boss.

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[Power Hour wrap-up]: Get prepared for performance reviews

At The Mintable, we focus our training on the moments where managers have an outsized impact on their teams and business performance. A key place where this happens is during key moments in the employee lifecycle. Think – hiring, onboarding, retention, and offboarding.

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Insights from our Expert Speaker Series – Flexing your Management Style with Kirstin Hunter

The Mintable recently launched a new membership feature – The Mintable Expert Speaker Series. We’re bringing some incredible speakers to our community who have real-life experience and know how to inspire, inform, and educate managers on what matters most.

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Introducing Power Hours: give your managers the skills & tools for the moments that matter

At The Mintable, our manager training focuses where managers have an outsized impact on their teams and the performance of your business. The first focus area is when managers are making leaps in their own development, like when they’re promoted from Individual Contributor to Manager. Our four-week, cohort-based accelerators, Manager Foundation and Manager Progression, give managers the core soft skills to succeed at those inflection points, and the tools to implement them after the training. 

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[Webinar Recap] Manager enablement: to build or buy? Ft. leaders from Salesforce & Caribou

As anyone who works in Learning and Development can tell you, the laundry list of requests has grown longer in recent years, particularly in the area of manager enablement. Inevitably HR comes to a crossroads: is it best to build internally or partner with an external vendor to train and develop leaders?

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Best books for managers 📖 – Vol. 1

Here at The Mintable, our cohort-based learning programs are just the beginning of every manager’s learning journey. One of the best parts about our global community of ambitious managers is the ready access to advice. We recently asked our Mintable Managers to share their reccos for the books that have been the most impactful in their roles as managers.

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The top 5 things new managers need

When you’re supporting a newly promoted manager, you want to set them up for success so that they can develop into a confident, effective leader and amplify performance and culture. And arguably the most critical stage to support newly promoted managers is right at the beginning when they are transitioning to the role. But what are the key areas new managers need the most support in?

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