739 Emily Tsitrian: Make Me the Boss

Common Mistakes Women Managers Can Make and How to Avoid Them

Business is all about people, and no company ever succeeded without a great team inspired and supported to do great things.

So, what makes a great team? And what makes a great team leader who can successfully inspire, mentor, lead and grow a team that drives results?

Founding a company and leading it as it grows is one of the most vulnerable, things you can do – and often it can feel isolating, because invariably and necessarily the demands on you as CEO to get results from your team can get in the way of being liked.

Today we talk about how to juggle those relationships with empathy and avoid many of the common mistakes many female CEOs and team leaders make, including establishing firm boundaries to balance the innate desire to be liked with your necessary objective to assure accountability without micromanaging.

Emily Tsitrian is a passionate manager who has made it her mission to ensure up-and-coming leaders have the encouragement, knowledge and tools they need to succeed, whether as first-time founders or team leaders in corporate.

Emily’s nontraditional approach to management has seen her grow a tech team from scratch at a start-up before their Series A financing all the way through their acquisition by AutoDesk. She says her experiences as a manager have helped her unlock the secrets of effectively communicating and empathizing with others – and involves knowing how to build and maintain great relationships and have meaningful and important conversations. Her passion for combining these skills with real world knowledge and situations puts her in a unique position to provide genuine, relatable, and ‘un-stuffy’ words of wisdom to new leaders who are looking to find their place at the table.

Emily recently released her management guide, Make Me the Boss, to guide new managers and leaders through some of the most exciting (and weirdest) aspects of their new jobs. She also has a podcast called manager.flow, where she speaks with other business leaders and entrepreneurs about their experiences, what they have learned, and how they continue to make a difference.

She’s led a consulting division to win ‘Team of the Year’ twice. She was also a featured speaker at the Lesbians Who Tech – Pride Summit, and in 2017 her leadership efforts were highlighted in the New York Times for her work bringing tech into the construction industry.

More about Emily Tsitrian at emilytsitrian.com

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