Did the subject line engage you? Or did you wonder, as Fulyana did, whether this was really something of use to our working lives?

This week Fulyana is recommending a podcast that was recommended to her. It is from the “How’s Work” series by Esther Perel recorded in February 2020. The topic is “What Couples Therapy Teaches Us About Work”.

Below is our introduction followed by the link to Esther’s podcast.

The link to Esther Perel’s podcast:

What Couples Therapy Teaches Us About Work

Are you responsible for performance reviews of your team? When do they happen? Are they 360 or linear? Would you like them to be simpler, more relevant?

In this podcast, Kim and Fulyana discuss the approach suggested by a recent guest, Lyle Tard. As mentioned in the podcast, the link to Lyle’s conversation with them is below.

Listen to Lyle Tard talking to us by clicking here

Do you know the term “predictable unpredictability”?

This week Kim and Fulyana talk about how they have managed themselves when working with an unpredictable boss.

There is also discussion on Fulyana’s claim that she ‘might’ have been an unpredictable boss in the past…….

Do you provide a one to one service – mentoring, coaching, counselling or some related activity? Do you sometimes feel tired of people? How do you manage to give yourself time to recover?

This week Kim and Fulyana look at options for you as well as talking about how they maintain their focus for their individual activities.

This podcast was recorded remotely during the COVID-19 declared pandemic. You may hear that Kim is not well, having just returned from India and the World Flower Arranging Championships. She was screened multiple times during her return from India, with only a minor chest infection being detected. She is now fully recovered.

Do you worry over how to effectively communicate a new strategy for your organisation? Has this been a successful task in the past?

This week Fulyana shares an article she read recently that helped her visualise good communication practices for strategy sessions. The link to the article is below the podcast.

We’d be delighted to hear your views on both the article and how your own communication of strategies has worked.

The link to the article by Paul Ichilcik  – Stop Presenting Strategy, Start Communicating It

What exactly do we mean? How can you forget about time deadlines in favour of results?

This week Kim and Fulyana look at how we are driven by time. Have you considered working with a focus on a result – large or small – regardless of how quickly you might achieve it?

Have you ever been the subject of a redundancy? has it happened more than once?

This week Fulyana takes us through a case study about redundancy. Kim shares some of her insights in this area with both personal and professional suggestions for managing yourself and the situation.

If you have your own redundancy story you would like to share with our listeners, please drop us a line.

To some of you this title will seem contradictory. How can complaining be successful?

This week Kim and Fulyana look at how to approach the complaint process and whether a pro-active or reactive approach is more successful.

Do you “delegate”? Is it successful?

In this week’s podcast, Kim and Fulyana explore a different way of approaching what we have been conditioned to think of as “delegation”.

Can a new approach build you a better team and still get all the tasks done?

This week we continue our Case Study about managing both a team and yourself in an environment of organisational change.

How do you create a “safe” environment to allow new approaches during this time?

If you haven’t yet listened to Part 1 of this Case Study, here is the link

Case Study – Managing In An Environment of Change – Part 1