Katy Tynan

Katy Tynan

Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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I am an industry recognized researcher, speaker, and expert delivering strategic guidance…

Articles by Katy

  • Leading Learners

    Leading Learners

    In late March, 2016, a team of Microsoft developers gathered around a screen. There was an air of excitement as they…

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  • The Culture Gap: How Owners and Employees Think Differently About Work

    The Culture Gap: How Owners and Employees Think Differently About Work

    Work is a funny thing. We spend lots of time doing it, yet collectively we’re pretty unhappy with our jobs.

  • You Can't Do Everything

    You Can't Do Everything

    I have a confession to make. I like to think I can do anything.

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  • The Unbundling of Work

    The Unbundling of Work

    In 1999, in his dorm room at Northeastern University in Boston, Shawn Fanning wrote a piece of code that changed the…

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  • How Coworking Makes You More Productive

    How Coworking Makes You More Productive

    The first thing I hear when I tell people I work for myself is how great it must be to work in my PJs. While people…

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    Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

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    Waltham, Massachusetts

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    Southborough, MA

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    Boston

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    Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Education

Publications

  • How Did I Not See This Coming? A New Manager's Guide to Avoiding Total Disaster

    ATD Press

    Julie’s having a very bad day. She’s a new manager, and her top performer has resigned to escape her, and her own manager is looking on with a skeptical eye... This is the story of her turnaround.
    Being a first-time manager is a tough job. If you were Julie, what would you do? Wouldn’t anyone, given the choice of taking on a leadership role (with a raise), or staying put, have done the same? But no one prepared her for developing co-workers, her former peers, while producing as before and…

    Julie’s having a very bad day. She’s a new manager, and her top performer has resigned to escape her, and her own manager is looking on with a skeptical eye... This is the story of her turnaround.
    Being a first-time manager is a tough job. If you were Julie, what would you do? Wouldn’t anyone, given the choice of taking on a leadership role (with a raise), or staying put, have done the same? But no one prepared her for developing co-workers, her former peers, while producing as before and leading the team. Now she’s in over her head.

    Author Katy Tynan understands. In her new book, How Did I Not See This Coming? A Manager’s Guide to Avoiding Total Disaster, Tynan unlocks the truths about management, showing that first-time managers are basically on a journey without a map. It’s not that employers aren’t investing in their new managers, she says, or that the people in leadership don’t care, but they are no longer close to the raw experience of being a new manager. What’s more, most management books are written by experts who lack the memory of first-time failure.

    In How Did Not See This Coming?, Tynan tells the fictional story of Julie, a onetime star producer, to illustrate how a new manager can successfully make the shift from a role without leadership responsibilities to one with them. Along the way, Tynan offers the five basic truths about management—starting with recognizing team values and strengths—truths that can be learned by anyone. You, too, can be the manager everyone’s talking about—in a good way—because you’re the one who figured it out.

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  • Develop Management Skills with the ACCEL Model

    ATD (Association for Talent Development)

  • The Remote Boss

    Association for Talent Development (ATD)

  • Do You Have a Manager's Mindset?

    Harvard Business Review

Organizations

  • American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA)

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  • Association for Talent Development (ATD)

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  • Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

    Member

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