You're the Boss, Now What? | Team Emotional Intelligence for Managers and Leaders - Details, episodes & analysis

You're the Boss, Now What? is a leadership podcast about team emotional intelligence, for managers and HR leaders who want a team that feels safe to speak up and too invested to leave.

If you are a manager of people, this podcast is your playbook for the real challenges of leadership.

Most emotional intelligence work focuses on the individual. Your host, Desiree Petrich, starts with the whole team, which is where people open up and the honest conversations actually happen. She guides teams to strengthen their own emotional intelligence, so people stop holding back and start saying what needs to be said.

Because team emotional intelligence belongs to the whole team, this show is for team members too. If you're on a team, or getting ready to lead one, you'll hear the conversations that make a team stronger from any seat.

In each episode, you'll get practical ways to:
- Handle conflict at work before it turns into drama
- Make hard conversations easier, for you and for your team
- Build trust and respect as a confident, credible leader
- Hold employees accountable without micromanaging
- Fix a toxic culture and create a team that takes ownership
- Lead team meetings where people actually speak up

Desiree brings in tools like DISC, Working Genius, and The 5 Behaviors of a Cohesive Team to help your team understand each other, and she shares quick takeaways from bestselling leadership books so you can skip the fluff and apply what works.

Every other week, Desiree is joined by a new co-host, a fellow expert who brings their own stories and questions to a shared conversation about leading people well. It sounds like two people who do this work comparing notes over coffee.

Whether you're leading two people or two hundred, you'll learn how to create better communication, deeper trust, and a workplace people actually enjoy showing up to.

Desiree Petrich is a keynote speaker on team emotional intelligence, founder of Intentional Action, and the bestselling author of Taking Intentional Action. Learn more at desireepetrich.com.

Popular Topics Include:
One-on-one meeting frameworks, handling team conflict, addressing passive-aggressive behavior, rebuilding trust after drama, navigating difficult employees, setting expectations without micromanaging, improving accountability conversations, fixing toxic communication patterns, leading effective team meetings, delegation strategies for overwhelmed managers, increasing team buy-in, coaching underperforming employees, giving feedback that lands, managing impostor syndrome at work, and creating a healthier, more human-centered culture.