In this first part of a two part discussion, Kim and Fulyana talk with Daniel Hakim about how a passion for cars has kept him in business for over 10 years within a highly competitive retail and wholesale sector.

How do you manage a team that is older than you? How do you get the right staff to join a team when the industry is renowned for high turnover and a skills shortage approaching 50%? Does a passion keep you going when you still need to make all the business decisions?

What is the difference between personal best and personal excellence? Which is more important for your career? How do you measure them? Why should you measure them?

This week Kim and Fulyana explore the connection and differences between personal best and personal excellence.

As always, we welcome your feedback and views on these topics. You keep us thinking!!

How often do you measure your job satisfaction? Once a year when it’s review time? Are you really satisfied with your job and your performance?

In this podcast Kim and Fulyana talk through some of the issues that we like to generalise about when referring to our job satisfaction. It’s time to be realistic and measure job satisfaction on a more regular basis to get a real sense of how you are feeling about work and career issues.

Do you feel as though you are on a career treadmill? Is every week the same? Are you trapped in a cycle of work/eat/sleep?

This week Kim and Fulyana explore what it means to be in a rut, as the expression goes, and what you can realistically do about it. Not necessarily massive change, which 95% of us avoid, but being honest about what is possible if we ignore the excuses we tell ourselves every day.

Even when we are surrounded by work associates, we can feel alone or isolated. How do you address this? What are some simple ways to reconnect with the humanity around you? Where do you start?

This week Kim and Fulyana explore some ways they use to keep the human connection happening in their various work situations.

Many of you have already experienced the downsizing interview where it is your job to break the news to someone that perhaps you’ve worked with for years, that their position will be no longer required by the organisation. Or it might be a performance review that needs to be addressed.

Whatever the situation, as managers, we need to be prepared for these “unpleasant” conversations. This week Kim and Fulyana look at some case studies and how they would handle the scenarios.

Whether you are returning as a consultant or contractor, changing from being a contractor to an employee, there are steps you need to take to manage yourself and the new situation in a workplace that you have previously known.

This week Kim and Fulyana talk through the various scenarios and suggest approaches based on their own experiences in all these situations.