The Love Monday Podcast
This podcast is devoted to showing people how to improve their lives by taking specific steps to love Monday just like Friday. Join host Ryan Houmand, author of "A Passion for Monday" as he and his guests break down exactly how you can love Monday just like Friday but for a different reason. For more information on how to Love Monday just like Friday go to: LoveMondayLikeFriday.com
Episodes
144 episodes
144. HR vs Leadership: Why They See Different Problems
Employee engagement, company culture, manager effectiveness, employee experience, leadership development, HR strategy—who actually owns these outcomes?In this Real-Life Sitch episode, Ryan shares a coaching conversation with an HR leader...
143. The Problem Isn't Communication. It's Courage
Most managers think they have a communication problem.They don't.In this episode, Ryan shares a coaching conversation with a manager who believed poor communication was at the root of a difficult workplace issue. But as the conver...
142. The One Question That Reveals Real Leadership
What makes someone a true leader? Is it a title, authority, experience, or results? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand explores the simplest test of leadership: Would people willingly follow you if your title disappeared t...
141. The 3 Manager Blind Spots That Quietly Kill Engagement
Why do good employees disengage, burn out, or quietly quit even under “good” managers? In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand breaks down the three biggest leadership blind spots he sees in management today: emotional disconne...
140. Employees Told You What's Wrong. Why Hasn't Anything Changed?
Most leadership assessments stop at awareness. A manager gets a score, glances at a report, and nothing changes. In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan Houmand explains why the real value of the Love Monday Manager QB Rating™ isn’t th...
139. Why Some Managers Get Followed and Others Get Tolerated
What actually makes a manager effective?In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I break down the 9 core dimensions that define great management—based on real-world experience, employee engagement data, and what actually driv...
138. Why Most Leadership Scorecards Fail
What if measuring manager performance isn’t enough?In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I build on last week’s concept of a “QB Rating” for managers—a simple, objective way to evaluate how effectively a manager is leading...
137. Why Your Best Manager and Worst Manager Look the Same on Paper
What if managers were evaluated like quarterbacks?In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I introduce the concept behind the Love Monday Manager QB Rating™ — a new way to think about leadership, employee engagement, and manager effec...
136. A Service-Profit Chain Case Study
In this episode of Love Monday Podcast, Ryan explores a powerful Service-Profit Chain case study through Epic Systems and founder Judy Faulkner. Learn how strong internal culture, employee experience, and long-term leadership thinking ca...
135. Employees: Do They Know? Do They Care?
In this episode of Love Monday Podcast, Ryan breaks down one of the simplest and most powerful frameworks in performance management: Do they know, or do they care? When employee productivity issues, quality problems, or missed expectatio...
134. Don't Be An Emotional Hostage
Are you stuck people-pleasing at work or in relationships? In this episode of Love Monday, we unpack how weak boundaries, conflict avoidance, and over-functioning can turn you into a hostage to other people’s moods, demands, and dysfunct...
133. Using the Love Monday Tools to Be a Great Manager
You’ve got the tools—now how do you actually use them together?In Part 2 of this Love Monday series, I go beyond individual frameworks and show how Development Ranking, the 5 Talents of Great Managers, Gainers & Drainers, an...
132. Tools and Indicators to Get Managers Out of Their Chairs to Go Find Out What's Going On
Most managers wait too long to act—and their teams feel it.In this episode of Love Monday, I break down real-world management tools like Development Ranking, the 5 Talents of Great Managers, Gainers & Drainers, and Career Dr...
131. Internal Service Quality: The Leadership Advantage Most Companies Miss
What if your biggest customer at work isn’t external—but internal? In this episode, we break down Internal Service Quality (ISQ) at every level of a company—from CEO to manager—and show how leadership behaviors drive employee engagement,...
129. The Impact of Internal Service Quality on Customer Experience
Internal Service Quality is the hidden driver behind exceptional customer experience—and most organizations are getting it wrong. In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I break down how employee support, trust, and empowerment directly imp...
128. How Internal Service Quality Translates to Happy Customers (part 2 in a series)
Most organizations think they have a customer service problem.But in my experience, they actually have an internal service quality problem.In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, I walk through the connect...
127. Great Customer Service is a Managment Tell (Part 1)
Yesterday I had one of those moments that reminded me why I do the work I do.I walked into a restaurant where, years ago, I helped the leadership team work on employee engagement. Part of my fee back then was paid in trade… so every once...
126. It Was All Good Until the New Manager Got Promoted: How the Peter Principle Is Killing Teams
I hear it constantly in my coaching work:“It was great here… until my coworker got promoted.”In this episode, we explore one of the most common—and costly—mistakes organizations make: promoting top performers into leadership roles...
125. How Will You Make Sure You Don't Get Another Bad Boss?
How will you make sure you don’t Get Another Bad Boss?Have you ever left a job—not because of the work, but because of your manager?You’re not alone.Gallup research shows that managers spend nearly 40% of their ti...
124: What Are the Odds You'll Get a Bad Boss?
What are the real odds you’ll end up with a bad boss—and how can you avoid toxic leadership before accepting your next job?In this episode of Love Monday Like Friday, Ryan breaks down workplace culture, employee engagement, and managemen...
123. Do Less. Better.
In a world that rewards busy, loud, and more, this episode makes the case for the opposite.We talk about slowing down, saying no more often, and bringing your full self to the work that actually matters. Not half-focused. Not sp...
122. Go Change Some Lives
What’s the thing you do that actually changes people’s lives?In this crossover episode of the Love Monday Podcast, Ryan shares the only time he ever saw Zig Ziglar speak—and why that moment changed everything for him. Not because ...
121. Your Job Isn't Your Purpose; Your Purpose is Bigger Than That
In this episode of the Love Monday Podcast, we explore what happens when people lose their sense of purpose after a job change—and what organizations lose when mission becomes nothing more than revenue targets and deliverables.On the ind...
Ep. 120: What Do You Really Value (and Why Monday Tells the Truth)?
What if the way you feel about Monday isn’t about laziness, burnout, or a bad attitude—but about what you were taught to value long before you ever had a job?In this episode, I explore how our relationship with work often traces back to ...