Melanie Perkins, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg, and Elon Musk all have one thing in common. They’ve leveraged the entrepreneur mindset to achieve success in business. 

Whether you work for yourself or within a larger organisation, what can you borrow from high achievers that’s relevant to your career? 

Guests:

Rachael Neumann, co-founder, Flying Fox Ventures 

Alex Newman, Professor of Management and Associate Dean (Faculty), Melbourne Business School 

Eleni Dracakis, business psychologist 

You've likely been told to disrupt yourself and get better at dealing with change. But what if rapid change isn’t allowing you to do your best at work?

Leadership expert and co-author of Nine Lies About Work, Ashley Goodall, argues that change, for the sake of it, can be counter-productive. So how can we create more stability at work?

Guest:

Ashley Goodall, leadership expert and author, The Problem with Change

This is a companion story to our episode Uncertainty at work stressing you out? Here’s how to deal with it.

We know that putting up slides with lots of text, and talking about them at the same time, is not a very engaging way to get your point across in a presentation or training session. 

So why is it still happening? And how can we all tell better stories at work?

Awareness of psychosocial safety is growing and we know how destructive bullying can be. Yet incidents continue to occur, with performance management and generational differences creating flashpoints.

Despite decades of research and tighter regulations, many organisations struggle to prevent workplace bullying. We find out why, and learn about a prevention program that is making a difference. 

What if instead of adding tasks to your long to do list, you considered what you could take away? 

Professor Leidy Klotz has a theory that can help and he’ll teach you how to start subtracting at work. And Dom Price gives a coaching session that will help you stop, reflect and figure out what to let go of. 

You have staff who are neurodivergent, and you want to help them do their best work. What do you need to understand, and what supports should you put in place, to make that happen? 

We visit a neurodiverse workplace to find out, and hear from a specialist recruiter who supports neurodivergent employees in large corporate firms.

Have you ever been in a room with a leader who has you hanging on every word, and leaves you feeling inspired? 

Some would say that person has  ‘executive presence’.  But what do they have really?  And are the qualities that make employees willing to really listen to and follow a leader, changing?

Finding it hard to get your brain into gear? You might feel your mind wandering a bit, daydreaming of being somewhere else.

To help you get you back on track, one of the world’s top experts on attention, Dr Gloria Mark from the University of California Irvine, explains how our attention spans have declined and what we can do about it. 

And Sydney University Associate Professor Paul Ginns provides a simple hack to keep you focused through your work day. 

This episode was first broadcast on Jan 28, 2024.

The psychology of performance is not just for elite sports, it can also help you do better at work.

As the Paris Olympics kicks off, we share some lessons about performance and wellbeing and help you adapt them to your own career.

Like it or not, redundancies are a part of the career cycle for many of us. 

Whether it’s happening to you or someone you know, hear stories from people who have been through it, and those who help them, about how to prepare for and navigate that phase.