In the next of our new year interview series, Juliet chats with Natalie Egleton, the CEO of FRRR since 2015.  FRRR has been at the forefront of responses to the bushfires and floods that have impacted so many communities across rural and regional Australia.  Natalie’s focus on capacity building has grown the organisation from its focus on grant facilitation to a partner that is helping to drive capacity building within communities.

Having built the FRRR team significantly through Covid lockdowns, Natalie leads a hybrid team spread up the east coast of Australia and into WA and she offers us insights into the challenges of keeping people connected when they are working remotely.  She also has some incredibly valuable insights around leading authentically and using power, influence and authority. This is an episode not to miss.

You can listen to the interview and find out more about us and FRRR at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

n the second episode of our new year interview series, Kristy-Lee chats with Charissa Lim from Impact Persona. Charissa is a Certified Behavioural Consultant and DISC advocate who’s passionate about helping businesses gain first-hand insights into the people's behavioural traits through one of the world's most popular personality profiling tools. People come with different personalities. Charissa's goal is to harness the power of DISC Profiling to help her clients make informed hiring decisions, and identify the most ideal candidates that would best fit the business culture or role requirements.

In our conversation we chat about the value of using psychometrics in the recruitment process to help make better hiring choices, and how useful these reports can be as an ongoing team building and management tool.

If you’d like to reach out to Charissa you can find her at:

https://www.impactpersona.com.au/

To join in the conversation about psychometric profiling, head over to:

https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

In the first of our new year interview series, Juliet chats with Monique Farmer, the founder and CEO of Women Want Adventure. Monique started the outdoor adventure business six years ago and has navigated bushfires, floods and Covid lockdowns to build a team of 12 staff who help women reconnect with nature and themselves through guided adventures.

Monique is passionate about her ‘why’ and keeping her team connected, when they are all working out in the field. The ultimate ‘remote team”! She also has some advice for her younger self and those starting out as entrepreneurs today.

You can listen to the interview and find out more about us and Women Want Adventure at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

In this episode we bring you the second and final part of a recent interview Kristy-Lee conducted with Juliet for a Small Business Month event.

In November, NSW celebrated Small Business Month, with the theme of ‘connect for success’. As part of our activities, Kristy-Lee hosted a series of ‘connection conversations’ where she interviewed experts from a range of sectors to uncover different ways we can connect with our team to drive business success.

In this part of the discussion, we take a look at how you can connect with your own leadership skills to help drive business success.

We would love to know about your experiences connecting with your own unique leadership skills. You can find out more about us, comment and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

In this episode we bring you the first part of a recent interview Kristy-Lee conducted with Juliet for a Small Business Month event.

In November, NSW celebrated Small Business Month, with the theme of ‘connect for success’. As part of our activities, Kristy-Lee hosted a series of ‘connection conversations’ where she interviewed experts from a range of sectors to uncover different ways we can connect with our team to drive business success.

In this part of the discussion, we take a look at the different ways we can connect with our people to help drive business success.

We would love to know about your experiences connecting with your team. You can find out more about us, comment and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

In this episode we continue our conversation about culture and this time we are talking about what we need to do as leaders if we want to change our culture. Sometimes we need to consciously make changes and, at other times, things like rapid growth in our business will bring those changes to our door.

Change is never ending and when we are growing or innovating this can involve changes to systems and processes, as well as changing stories, traditions and power balances. The reality is that when things change some people won’t want to roll with the changes and will choose to leave instead. In this episode we discuss this and how to keep people engaged with the changes.

We would love to know about your experiences managing culture. You can find out more about us, comment and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

Culture can sometimes feel like something people refer to but you can’t quite get your hands around. Whilst we are often focused on goals and measures, culture, often described as ‘the way we do things around here’ is the X factor that will help us deliver. Building and maintaining the culture you want isn’t always easy, and it is always led from the top.

In this episode we are talking about explicitly using your values to drive behaviours that build and sustain the culture you want. Have a listen!

You can find out more about us, comment and ask questions at https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence.

Today we are talking about discussing underperformance with someone on our team.

This is something that leader across the globe struggle with. Often because we don’t like confrontation, or aren’t sure how to have frank and honest conversations with our team.

No matter the reason, putting these conversations off is not doing the right thing by anyone, the employee, the business or yourself.

If you want to join the conversation about underperformance and how to deal with it, or have any follow up questions about today’s episode, we’d love to hear from you, jump over to the Facebook Page and let us know - https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence.

Today we are talking about leadership styles – and it’s such a big topic we may be back for an entire series to go deeper into this area.

There is no one size fits all approach to leadership, we all have our own innate styles, and we adopt what we have observed or want to avoid from our own experience.

Understanding our leadership style can help with our self awareness, allow us to tap into our strengths and be aware of our blind spots and generally develop stronger leadership practices across the board.

If you would like to join the conversation about leadership styles, or have any follow up questions about today’s episode, we’d love to hear from you, jump over to the Facebook Page and let us know  - https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence.

Today we are talking about a topic which is so important to the majority of our people – learning at work.

In today’s episode we discuss the benefits of learning in the workplace, and investing in learning opportunities for your people and we share strategies that we are seeing work for the organisations we support when it comes to the benefits on the workplace of staff learning.

If you would like to join the conversation about learning in the workplace,  or have any follow up questions about today’s episode, we’d love to hear from you, jump over to the Facebook Page and let us know  - https://www.facebook.com/growyourinfluence/