"I used to think that anxiety and stress was actually good... to drive you to better performance," Morgan Ranieri says.

He is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Your Grocer, a food grocery delivery service. But the management style that helped get the business started was not what was needed to keep it going. So what changed and how did it impact on the business?

And meet Cheryl Lawrie, whose side hustle is being a funeral celebrant. She works with people on the margins of society - prisoners, refugees and members of the LGBTQI community who have lost loved ones. Cheryl says she finds good company with people on the edge.

"I used to think that anxiety and stress was actually good... to drive you to better performance," Morgan Ranieri says.

He is the CEO and one of the co-founders of Your Grocer, a food grocery delivery service. But the management style that helped get the business started was not what was needed to keep it going. So what changed and how did it impact on the business?

And meet Cheryl Lawrie, whose side hustle is being a funeral celebrant. She works with people on the margins of society - prisoners, refugees and members of the LGBTQI community who have lost loved ones. Cheryl says she finds good company with people on the edge.

You can waste a lot of time and money recruiting the wrong person for the job. In fact, one in five external hires don't work out, at an estimated cost of TWO years' salary. So how can psychometric testing and AI help - does science trump intuition when it comes to hiring the right person for the job?

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an organisational psychologist, his book is "The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, is Key to Unlocking Human Potential", you can guess what he thinks! Peter Wilson is the president and chair of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and together we explore the benefits and limitations of using data to choose the best candidate.

You can waste a lot of time and money recruiting the wrong person for the job. In fact, one in five external hires don't work out, at an estimated cost of TWO years' salary. So how can psychometric testing and AI help - does science trump intuition when it comes to hiring the right person for the job?

Dr Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic is an organisational psychologist, his book is "The Talent Delusion: Why Data, Not Intuition, is Key to Unlocking Human Potential", you can guess what he thinks! Peter Wilson is the president and chair of the Australian Human Resources Institute (AHRI) and together we explore the benefits and limitations of using data to choose the best candidate.

How do you define your own moral compass? What considerations do you ponder when faced with issues of right and wrong in your working life?

David Burfoot, a senior advisor at the Ethics Centre, and Vanessa Pigrum, the CEO of the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership put us through our ethical paces and discuss how both employers and employees can create more principled places to work.

How do you define your own moral compass? What considerations do you ponder when faced with issues of right and wrong in your working life?

David Burfoot, a senior advisor at the Ethics Centre, and Vanessa Pigrum, the CEO of the Cranlana Centre for Ethical Leadership put us through our ethical paces and discuss how both employers and employees can create more principled places to work.

Workplace loneliness is reaching epidemic proportions. It's as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. So what can be done?

Flexible work arrangements, technology, office design, even age differences are all contributing to it, affecting our mental and physical health and our productivity.

Dave Anthony, principal psychologist at Communicorp and Derya Guzel, senior psychologist and clinical lead at Assure Programs, look at why workplace loneliness is bad for workers, bosses and the company bottom line, and offer suggestions on how to identify and deal with it.

Workplace loneliness is reaching epidemic proportions. It's as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. So what can be done?

Flexible work arrangements, technology, office design, even age differences are all contributing to it, affecting our mental and physical health and our productivity.

Dave Anthony, principal psychologist at Communicorp and Derya Guzel, senior psychologist and clinical lead at Assure Programs, look at why workplace loneliness is bad for workers, bosses and the company bottom line, and offer suggestions on how to identify and deal with it.

Negotiation is something we all do every day, often without even realising it.

But there is a skill to it, and on this book club episode of This Working Life we explore what works, and doesn't work, when it comes to successfully navigating these relationships.

Kyle Wilson is a former diplomat, Russian expert and visiting fellow at the Centre for European Studies at ANU and Allan Parker is a consultant and negotiator whose books include "The Negotiator's Toolkit".

They discuss our book club title "The Kremlin School of Negotiation" by Russian business coach Igor Ryzov.

Negotiation is something we all do every day, often without even realising it.

But there is a skill to it, and on this book club episode of This Working Life we explore what works, and doesn't work, when it comes to successfully navigating these relationships.

Kyle Wilson is a former diplomat, Russian expert and visiting fellow at the Centre for European Studies at ANU and Allan Parker is a consultant and negotiator whose books include "The Negotiator's Toolkit".

They discuss our book club title "The Kremlin School of Negotiation" by Russian business coach Igor Ryzov.