“Promotes Good Employees Into Great” – by sharing knowledge, leadership thoughts and experience.

Never Mind the Manager is a blog about leadership, coaching, motivation and fun at work. The audience that I try to target is employees with ambition to become great, or even with ambitions to be promoted. I also target leaders and managers, preferably small business leaders, middle managers and team leaders. If you just got promoted to your first leading job, well this is the place for you.

Frode Heimen

I am from Norway, I am born in 1973, I have a wife and two sons (1996 & 2004). I am by education a webmaster but I have worked more or less as a leader, team leader, store owner, store manager and a salesperson most of my life. I have a great passion for leadership theory, motivation and coaching. I have been working at a major Norwegian telecom company since February 2006 as a call center employee, team leader, coach and as department manager since April 2008.

I have been blogging since 2007 at Blogspot and moved my blog and found my “in-zone” with never mind the manager April 2009.

The name Never Mind the Manager

The story behind the name is related to music. I wanted to move my blog away from the Blogspot site and to my own hosted WordPress blog at my own domain. But what should the name be? I was considering a lot of different ideas (now free ideas for you) like Cubicle Chronicles, workOnSpot, Winningwire, Going Concern, Bring on the boss, employee energizer. That day I was listening to “Never Mind the Bollocks” the only official record from the Sex Pistols, legendary British Punk band. Never Mind the Manager was the result of a coincidence while brainstorming, and not necessary based on some need to remove managers…

I dream about becoming a public motivational speaker. I also enjoy fishing, soccer and politics. But I will keep to the leadership subject at this blog.

I hope you will enjoy my blog. Happy reading.