Karen and Maddie are joined by Jon Yeo to chat all about communication. 

Jon answers the following questions:

What do you think matters most when it comes to communicating through tough times? 

What are the most common communication mistakes you observe leaders making? 

How should leaders communicate to engage and inspire people to keep striving when times are tough? 

Check out Jon's website HERE. 

Alexis Gladstone joins Work Savvy to chat all about Executive leaders.

Karen and Maddie started off by asking Alexis the following questions:

• For managers looking to step up into an Executive role, what are the most important capabilities they need to develop? 

Connect with Alexis on LinkedIn HERE! 

Margie Warrell joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about courage. Margie is a Senior Partner at Korn Ferry, a bestselling Author and keynote speaker. She is the perfect person for this episode all about having courage.

Margie helps answer:

• What is courage

Check out Margie's website.

Karen and Maddie are joined by Angela Boyd to chat all about change. Angela is the Director of 3rdi Change Consulting, and is a transformation, business improvement, strategy and leadership pro. 

Angela helped answer the following questions: 

How to communicate about the future vision? 

Best way to communicate with impact through times of change? 

How to build hope and confidence when the future is uncertain? 

Helping people to keep up while things are changing quickly 

Connect with Angela on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angela-boyd-932a58/

It’s that time of year again so on the show today Karen and Maddie are going to kick off by talking all about performance reviews.

Karen answers the following questions:

How often should we do performance reviews? 

How to prepare for a performance review? 

Where should we facilitate a performance review? 

What are the best questions to ask in a performance review? 

What not to do in a performance review 

How to get the best out of a performance review 

Connect with Karen Gately on LinkedIn

Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie to chat about resilience, at work and in life.

They started off unpacking the following questions:

Why does resilience matter? 

How do you build resilience? 

What to do when someone in your team isn’t very resilient? How do you handle it?

You talk about procrastination and not being able to make decisions has correlation to resilience, can you tell us more?

Talk to us about the Mel Robbins 5 second rule?

Connect with Catie Paterson on LinkedIn

Maddie is back interviewing Karen all about the common workplace impacts on mental health and what to do about them. 

They start by unpacking:

Cultural drivers of stress and burnout 

How bullying and discrimination impact wellbeing of more than the people in the firing line 

Addressing unhealthy influencers when the people in charge are a part of the issue 

Main factors that influence mental health of employees 

How important is psychological safety at work? 

Connect with Karen Gately on LinkedIn

Karen and Maddie are joined by Ros Batson to discuss the link between EQ and team culture. 

They kicked off by asking Ros questions all about EQ, like what even is emotional intelligence? And then Ros helps Karen and Maddie answer:

Do you think there is a link between EQ and team culture? 

How do we understand the emotional culture of organisations? 

Do you believe high EQ helps you to better manage a diverse team? 

Is emotional intelligence linked with job satisfaction do you think? 

How to utilise emotional intelligence in the workplace? 

Check out Ros' business Neural Networks and the certification Karen completed recently here - https://www.neuralnetworks.com.au/emotional-intelligence/emotional-intelligence-certification

Karen and Maddie chat to Angela Horkings and attempt to answer everyone's favourite question, "How do I optimise the impact of my HR team?"

The start of today's episode covers the following talking points:

How can we take full advantage of a HR team? 

How to get the best out of HR? 

What to do when you aren’t getting the impact you would like from your HR team? 

How important is getting recruitment right? 

What to do when your HR talent is lacking? 

Check out Angela's LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angelahorkings/

Maddie is back interviewing Karen to chat all about EQ!

Maddie and Karen start off unpacking emotional intelligence... so what is emotional intelligence?

Tell me about your latest accreditation? 

What is EQ-i 2.0 and EQ360? 

How can it help our clients? 

What it means to be emotionally intelligent 

Why emotional intelligence impacts team and organisational performance 

Steps leaders can take to build emotional intelligence 

Connect with Karen Gately on LinkedIn