Beyond Hierarchies: Cultivating a Transparent Feedback Culture
Leszek Knoll discusses the challenges of addressing underperformance in self-organized environments, handling peer feedback with empathy, preventing workplace "mobbing," nurturing a feedback culture, and applying effective communication and feedback principles beyond work with Marc Furrer, Client Director at FNZ Group.
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In this episode, Leszek Knoll, co-founder of @brainhubeu, discusses the challenges of addressing underperformance in self-organized teams, handling peer feedback with empathy, preventing workplace "mobbing," promoting a feedback culture, and applying effective communication and feedback principles beyond work with Marc Furrer, Client Director at FNZ Group.

Leszek Knoll
Over the last decade, Leszek has developed several successful businesses, among them a software development agency that supports Fortune 500 companies. With the challenges a growing business brings, he observed that stepping out of a tech role into a leadership one brings the need for a different approach. As a host of the Better Tech Leadership podcast, Leszek is focused on bridging the gap between tech and people skills.

Marc Furrer
Marc Furrer is a Client Director at FNZ Group with extensive experience in business operations and management, having held senior roles at FNZ Group, Especially Hair, and SunGard (now part of FIS), where he specialized in areas such as ALM, Liquidity Risk Management, and Capital Stress Testing, along with a background in finance and economics from Universität St.Gallen.
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The Better Tech Leadership Podcast
A podcast where we share a drink with leaders that build the world’s greatest teams and products. Giving you the playbook for growing a successful tech business as a founder, CTO and aspiring CTO.

Matt Warcholinski explores DevOps philosophy, human-centric tech leadership, the purposeful use of technology, the uncertain future of tech, and recommends a valuable resource with Jan Hegewald, a software product development leader at DevNetwork and SumUp.

Leszek Knoll discusses the challenges of addressing underperformance in self-organized environments, handling peer feedback with empathy, preventing workplace "mobbing," nurturing a feedback culture, and applying effective communication and feedback principles beyond work with Marc Furrer, Client Director at FNZ Group.

Matt Warcholinski, co-founder of @brainhubeu, delves into an innovative hybrid work models, balancing sales and product management, funding significance, and the importance of human-centric leadership in startups with Dennis Teichmann, Startup Investor and Advisor.