What transforms a caring manager into someone their employees fear? According to executive coach Sabina Nawaz, it's not a personality defect—it's pressure. Drawing from her own jarring experience of returning from maternity leave to find herself snapping at her team, Nawaz reveals the hidden forces that push good people into problematic leadership behaviors. This eye-opening conversation challenges the myth that there are simply "good" and "bad" bosses. Nawaz, who spent 14 years at Microsoft working with leaders like Bill Gates, explains how both types of boss reside within us all. The difference lies in our awareness and the tools we use to navigate workplace pressures without sacrificing our humanity.

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Are your management practices stuck in the 1800s? They might be if you're still operating with conventional management approaches. In this eye-opening episode, Jason Lauritsen reveals why so many workplaces struggle with engagement, retention, and performance — our management methods were designed during the industrial revolution to make humans behave like machines.

Jason introduces his groundbreaking Check-In Method™, a practical framework that acknowledges what decades of research confirm: employees experience work as a relationship, not as a mechanical transaction. This misalignment explains phenomena like "quiet quitting," which Jason powerfully reframes not as employee laziness but as a management failure and a cry for help from workers pushed beyond sustainable limits.

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Here are the links that Jason discussed in the episode:

• https://www.cultivayo.com/the-check-in-bootcamp-for-HR
• https://www.cultivayo.com/18-great-questions

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Click HERE for Jason's book - Unlocking High Performance

Click HERE for Jason's book - Social Gravity

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Ever wondered about those colleagues who seem to change their approach depending on the situation? The ones who are harder to pin down, yet somehow able to work effectively with almost anyone? Our latest episode dives deep into the mysterious world of the Adapter Reference Profile.

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Related TBC Episodes:

• Head, Heart, and Briefcase

1. The Collaborator Manager
2. The Operator Manager
3. The Promoter Manager
4. The Altruist Manager
5. The Strategist Manager
6. The Guardian Manager
7. The Specialist Manager
8. The Maverick Manager
9. The Artisan Manager
10. The Persuader Manager
11. The Captain Manager
12. The Controller Manager

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We use The Predictive Index as our analytics platform so you know it's validated and reliable. Your Reference Profile informs you of your needs, behaviors, and the nuances of what we call your Behavioral DNA. It also explains your work style, your strengths, and even the common traps in which you may find yourself. It's a great tool to share with friends, family, and co-workers.

Follow us on Instagram HERE and make sure to share with your network!

Provide your feedback HERE, please! We love to hear from our listeners and welcome your thoughts and ideas about how to improve the podcast and even suggest topics and ideas for future episodes.

Visit us at www.realgoodventures.com. We are a Talent Optimization consultancy specializing in people and business execution analytics. Real Good Ventures was founded by Sara Best and John Broer who are both Certified Talent Optimization Consultants with over 50 years of combined consulting and organizational performance experience. Sara is also certified in EQi 2.0. RGV is also a Certified Partner of Line-of-Sight, a powerful organizational health and execution platform. RGV is known for its work in leadership development, executive coaching, and what we call organizational rebuild where we bring all our tools together to diagnose an organization's present state and how to grow toward a stronger future state.

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