ACHIEVE Workplace Culture · 2026-05-28 · 25 min
Wendy Loewen introduces The Manager’s Field Guide, an ACHIEVE Workplace Culture podcast mini-series based on the new book “You Can Manage” by Daniel Anthony Doerksen and Chris Downey. The series is designed to support people moving into management roles without formal training, helping them understand what to focus on and how to measure success. The authors argue that work is essential to a meaningful life, yet it has too often been accepted as a negative experience. Managers, they suggest, are the key to closing the gap between what work can be and what many people experience. In this first episode, they distinguish leadership as a human dynamic from management as a defined organizational role, and preview the book’s “Essential Five”: start with yourself, invest in people, build the team, advance the work, and strengthen the organization. Ready to make your workplace somewhere people actually want to be? ACHIEVE has everything you need to get there. Try our free Culture Transformation Starter Kit !
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The Manager’s Field Guide - Episode 2: Start with You
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