This Working Life

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December 03, 2019 Taming the advice monster for effective coaching at work
Coaching is not just for leaders but we should all become "coach like", according to Michael Bungay Stanier. Michael knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a great coach, he was recently named world's number one thought leader in coaching and his book The Coaching Habit has sold more than 700,000 copies. Michael unpacks his seven essential coaching questions:
1. What's on your mind?
2. And what else?
3. What's the really challenge here for you?
4. What do you want?
5. How can I help/so what do you want from me?
6. If you're saying yes to this, what are you saying no to?
7. What was most useful/valuable here for you?
And one of the least favourite days of the working year for many employees and more than a few managers is that of the performance review. You may feel they are futile at best and damaging at worst if not done properly so we asked people management specialist Karen Gately how we can get the most of of our performance reviews.
25 min
December 03, 2019 Taming the advice monster for effective coaching at work
Coaching is not just for leaders but we should all become "coach like", according to Michael Bungay Stanier. Michael knows a thing or two about what it takes to be a great coach, he was recently named world's number one thought leader in coaching and his book The Coaching Habit has sold more than 700,000 copies. Michael unpacks his seven essential coaching questions:
1. What's on your mind?
2. And what else?
3. What's the really challenge here for you?
4. What do you want?
5. How can I help/so what do you want from me?
6. If you're saying yes to this, what are you saying no to?
7. What was most useful/valuable here for you?
And one of the least favourite days of the working year for many employees and more than a few managers is that of the performance review. You may feel they are futile at best and damaging at worst if not done properly so we asked people management specialist Karen Gately how we can get the most of of our performance reviews.
25 min
November 26, 2019 What can wild animals teach us about good leadership?
What kind of leader are you? Or what kind of leader do you aspire to be?
Are you democratic, trusting or empathetic? Or a bit laissez faire?
On this episode of This Working Life we are communing with the animals with zoo keepers at Sydney's Taronga Zoo and emeritus senior curator, Erna Walraven, whose new book is called "Wild Leadership-what wild animals teach us about leadership".
Find out if you are more meerkat than lion, more elephant than chimp in your leadership style.
26 min
November 26, 2019 What can wild animals teach us about good leadership?
What kind of leader are you? Or what kind of leader do you aspire to be?
Are you democratic, trusting or empathetic? Or a bit laissez faire?
On this episode of This Working Life we are communing with the animals with zoo keepers at Sydney's Taronga Zoo and emeritus senior curator, Erna Walraven, whose new book is called "Wild Leadership-what wild animals teach us about leadership".
Find out if you are more meerkat than lion, more elephant than chimp in your leadership style.
26 min
November 19, 2019 In search of meaningful work, and the end of the CV
Do you find meaning in your work? How much is it linked to your identity?
According to the ABC's Australia Talks survey, fulfilment at work is very important to us, so on this episode we go on a search for meaning with Peggy Kern, associate professor in positive psychology at the University of Melbourne and Nina Mapson Bone, managing director of recruitment company Beaumont People.
And we also ask- is it time to jettison the CV? Kate Glazebrook, CEO and co-founder of Applied, provides some answers.
[Australia Talks Promo]
25 min
November 19, 2019 In search of meaningful work, and the end of the CV
Do you find meaning in your work? How much is it linked to your identity?
According to the ABC's Australia Talks survey, fulfilment at work is very important to us, so on this episode we go on a search for meaning with Peggy Kern, associate professor in positive psychology at the University of Melbourne and Nina Mapson Bone, managing director of recruitment company Beaumont People.
And we also ask- is it time to jettison the CV? Kate Glazebrook, CEO and co-founder of Applied, provides some answers.
[Australia Talks Promo]
25 min
November 12, 2019 Biohacking your way to your best work
Cryotherapy, sleep apps and binaural beats, are just some or the more than 20 hacks Lisa Leong uses to perform her best at work. Are they useful or a complete waste of time and or money?
We recruited three scientists to run the research filter over these hacks.
DR SHONA HALSON is a leading exercise recovery scientist who has been part of three Olympic campaigns, she sorts the fact from fiction when it comes to cryotherapy.
DR SIOBHAN BANKS, neuroscientist and sleep researcher from the University of South Australia, reviews wearable sleep apps and developmental neuroscientist from Monash University DR HANNAH KIRK debunks binaural beats for increasing focus.
Lisa's fellow biohackers for high performance at work include DIANNE MCGRATH (Mars One astronaut candidate) and entrepreneur and non-executive director CATHERINE ROBSON.
27 min
November 12, 2019 Biohacking your way to your best work
Cryotherapy, sleep apps and binaural beats, are just some or the more than 20 hacks Lisa Leong uses to perform her best at work. Are they useful or a complete waste of time and or money?
We recruited three scientists to run the research filter over these hacks.
DR SHONA HALSON is a leading exercise recovery scientist who has been part of three Olympic campaigns, she sorts the fact from fiction when it comes to cryotherapy.
DR SIOBHAN BANKS, neuroscientist and sleep researcher from the University of South Australia, reviews wearable sleep apps and developmental neuroscientist from Monash University DR HANNAH KIRK debunks binaural beats for increasing focus.
Lisa's fellow biohackers for high performance at work include DIANNE MCGRATH (Mars One astronaut candidate) and entrepreneur and non-executive director CATHERINE ROBSON.
27 min
November 05, 2019 Unlimited paid leave, holacracies and other innovations with Amantha Imber
"Innovate! Think creatively!" you're told. But how? Especially when you are in a large organisation with fairly rigid ways of doing thing. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber uses science to help companies learn to innovate, but she has also applied innovative practices at her own company, Inventium, including unlimited paid leave, flexibility around when and where her staff work and embraces an organisational framework called a holacracy. What's that? Listen to find out!
And picking up on the theme of flexibility about where and when you work, and even what you wear, Bond Uni's Dr Libby Sander gives us her tips on how to work from home without going mad or living in your PJs.
26 min
November 05, 2019 Unlimited paid leave, holacracies and other innovations with Amantha Imber
"Innovate! Think creatively!" you're told. But how? Especially when you are in a large organisation with fairly rigid ways of doing thing. Organisational psychologist Dr Amantha Imber uses science to help companies learn to innovate, but she has also applied innovative practices at her own company, Inventium, including unlimited paid leave, flexibility around when and where her staff work and embraces an organisational framework called a holacracy. What's that? Listen to find out!
And picking up on the theme of flexibility about where and when you work, and even what you wear, Bond Uni's Dr Libby Sander gives us her tips on how to work from home without going mad or living in your PJs.
26 min

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You spend so much time on work, why accept the status quo, when there are ways to do it better? Get expert advice, research and hacks that will crush your inertia.