When was the last real day off you had? Do you need a whole day or is a few hours sufficient to recharge your enthusiasm? How can you give yourself permission or organise your tasks so time off is a reality?

This week Kim and Fulyana share the methods they each use individually to structure some time off as well as keep their passion and commitment to projects alive.

Do you need to process some work worries but don’t know how? This week Kim and Fulyana look at what you can do to help yourself when you have issues, either identified or not, that seem to detract from your enjoyment or sense of success at work.

This week Kim and Fulyana talk through their experiences and suggestions around external investigations, takeovers, mergers and buyouts. What do you say to an investigator? What do you say when people you know and trust, outside your workplace, ask about the situation?

We all bring qualities to a leadership role. How often do we try to incorporate traits that we would have appreciated from other leaders? Is this a good idea? How do you work out what is right for your team or project?

This week Kim and Fulyana explore  case study of a manager who has been in the role for less than a year and although the team is performing well, he feels that some members are less comfortable with his style than he expected. Its a case of self assessment of management qualities and what is right for your team.

Is it really possible to make decisions without emotional investment? How do you identify when, where and how your emotions are playing a part in your decision making process?

This week, Kim and Fulyana consider how they approach decision making and how they try to manage their emotional investment in projects and people.

In this last part of our discussion with Rodney Watson OAM, Kim and Fulyana hardly get a word in! Rodney takes us through a range of issues around Board memberships including the research you need to do when you are thinking about being a Board member.

It was a noisy location to record so there is some background sounds.

In Part 2 of our three part discussion with Rodney Watson OAM, Kim and Fulyana explore Rodney’s views on responsible governance, the similarities of managing a business or a sporting association (with upwards of 3,000 registered players), the changing roles of volunteers and the impact of legislation on volunteer based administration.

Have you ever embarked on changing an organisation’s constitution? How long do you think it should take?

It’s old home week at Inside-Exec as Kim and Fulyana talk with a former work colleague, Rodney Watson OAM, about his lifelong involvement with sports administration whilst pursuing his successful career in executive management positions across Australia.

What are the similarities in management? What are the challenges? In Part 1, of a 3 part series, we hear of Rodney’s career journey and the lessons learned early that are still vitally important today. Structure and governance are two areas that get special attention in this longer than usual podcast (around 30 minutes).

Do you consider yourself “brave” at work? What about courageous?

This week Kim and Fulyana explore what being brave and/or courageous means in the workplace. Looking at some examples from their own experience, we hear exactly what these terms mean in a work environment and how you, too, can benefit from be “brave aware”.

In the second part of our discussion with Daniel Hakim, Kim and Fulyana hear what planning goes in to moving a business and building new premises, the challenges of industry regulators as well as the value of focused industry support groups.

We hear that the issues for business owners are very similar regardless of the size of the business.