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Sensei Karen engages with leading experts and accomplished business leaders, diving deep into what it means to be an outstanding leader of people while thriving at work and in life. 

Get ready to be inspired as Karen and her guests share their journeys through captivating stories, offering hard-won wisdom and practical advice that you can use right now. 

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Episode 84:  Transformative Blueprint for Leaders to Thrive with Vision, Empathy, and Resilience in the 21st Century

Episode 84: Transformative Blueprint for Leaders to Thrive with Vision, Empathy, and Resilience in the 21st Century

Karen is joined by Karen Ferris, the organisational change and service management rebel with a cause! As the author of "The Leadership Mindset – Be R.E.M.A.R.K.A.B.L.E.," she offers a transformative blueprint for leaders to thrive with vision, empathy, and resilience in the 21st century.   

Karen and Karen explore the "REMARKABLE" acronym that speaks to essential leadership qualities.

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Episode 83: High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can't Stay

Episode 83: High Cost of Poor Leadership: Why Bad Bosses Can't Stay

Michelle Gibbings, an expert in workplace culture, global keynote speaker, and accomplished author, joins Karen for an insightful discussion on the heavy price of poor leadership and the reasons ineffective bosses can no longer stick around.

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Episode 80: Sales Leadership - Building a High-Performance Sales Team and Culture

Episode 80: Sales Leadership - Building a High-Performance Sales Team and Culture

Karen is joined by Fran Pratt the Founder and Director of Metisan – Sales Solution Architects to talk about Sales Leadership - Building a High-Performance Sales Team and Culture. 

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Episode 75: Building Peak Performance Sales Teams

Episode 75: Building Peak Performance Sales Teams

On today's episode, Karen welcomes Anna Glynn, a dynamic speaker, coach, and author of Strong: How the Best Sales Leaders Engage, Achieve, and Thrive. Together, they'll dive into the strategies for building peak-performance sales teams.

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Episode 74: Leading Your Team to Peak Performance

Episode 74: Leading Your Team to Peak Performance

Karen is joined by Graham Winter, the brilliant mind behind the best-selling book "Think One Team" and co-author of new book Toolkit for Turbulence:  the mindset and methods that leaders need to turn adversity to advantage, to talk about leading your team to peak performance. 

 

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Work Savvy Podcast with Jaquie Scammell

Episode 73: The Role Humans Have in the Future of Service

Karen is joined by Jaquie Scammell, Australia’s leading Customer Service expert and Founder of ServiceQ, to discuss the role humans have in the future of service.  

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Episode 69: Leadership in Education

Episode 69: Leadership in Education

Karen is honored to be joined by Tony Mackay, a highly respected leader in the education sector, to delve into the topic of leadership in Education. 

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Episode 65: AI and the Changing Nature of Work

Episode 65: AI and the Changing Nature of Work

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about AI and the Changing Nature of Work. To help us unpack this topic, we are joined by Belinda Fyffe. Belinda is the CEO of The Proven Group, a People and Culture Consultancy.  

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Episode 64: The Psychology of Collaboration

Episode 64: The Psychology of Collaboration

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about The Psychology of Collaboration: Dive into the psychological aspects of collaboration, including how group dynamics and individual personalities affect teamwork. 

 

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Work Savvy Podcast with Brett Pomroy

Episode 62: Psychological Safety at Work

On the show today we’re going to kick off, by talking all about Psychological Safety at Work. To help us unpack this topic, we are joined by Brett Pomroy.  Brett is the Principal Lawyer at Salt Legal.  

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Episode 60: Leadership coaching

Episode 60: Leadership coaching

Karen and Maddie are joined by leadership coach Karen Stein to unpack coaching. 

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Episode 57: Difficult Times

Episode 57: Difficult Times

Karen and Maddie are interviewing Jenny Stilwell and talking all about dealing with the difficult stuff. 

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Episode 52: Managing Performance Remotely

Episode 52: Managing Performance Remotely

This week Maddie is interviewing Karen all about leadership and remote work. 

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Episode 51: Avoiding Turnover

Episode 51: Avoiding Turnover

This week on the show Karen and Maddie have Jane Betts from Aussie Broadband on to chat all about avoiding turnover in the early stages of employment. 

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Episode 47: Communicating with Impact

Episode 47: Communicating with Impact

Communication and presentation skills pro Justin O'Brien joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about how to communicate with impact.

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Episode 45: Performance Management

Episode 45: Performance Management

HR expert Sonya Law is back on the podcast to chat all about performance management systems.

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Episode 44: High Performing Executive Teams

Episode 44: High Performing Executive Teams

Gwen Pinnington joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about Exec teams.

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Episode 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders

Episode 43: Identifying and Developing Future Leaders

Ros Cardinal is on the show today to unpack leaders.

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Episode 41: Addressing Poor Performance

Episode 41: Addressing Poor Performance

Catie is back on the show to chat about performance.

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Episode 40: Getting the Hiring Decisions Right

Episode 40: Getting the Hiring Decisions Right

Angela Horkings is on the podcast this week to chat about getting hiring decisions right and how to avoid hiring the wrong people for your team or business.

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Episode 39: Finding Inner Peace

Episode 39: Finding Inner Peace

Fiona Redding joins the show again, this time to chat all about how to find inner peace.

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Episode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Episode 38: Emotional Intelligence and Leadership

Ros Batson is back on the show to chat all things EQ and leadership. 

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Episode 37: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

Episode 37: Unconscious Bias in the Workplace

We are back for 2023! Karen is back in the hot seat, with Maddie interviewing her all about unconscious bias.

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Episode 35: Creating a Learning Culture

Episode 35: Creating a Learning Culture

Gayle Smerdon joins Karen and Maddie to unpack learning cultures and focus.

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Episode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times

Episode 32: Energy to Struggle Through Tough Times

Sian Stephens joins the show to chat all about having the energy to struggle through tough times.

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Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching

Episode 31: Managing Versus Coaching

Richard Day is back on the podcast to chat about coaching. 

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Episode 30: High Performing Teams

Episode 30: High Performing Teams

Pete Clark is back on the show with Karen and Maddie to chat all about peformance. 

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Episode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner

Episode 29: How to Thrive as a Business Owner

Marcus Bird joins the show give Karen and Maddie tips on thriving as a business owner.

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Episode 26: Building Courage

Episode 26: Building Courage

Margie Warrell joins Karen and Maddie to chat all about courage.

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Episode 25: Leading People Through Times of Rapid or Dramatic Change

Episode 25: Leading People Through Times of Rapid or Dramatic Change

Karen and Maddie are joined by Angela Boyd to chat all about change.

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Episode 21: EQ and Team Culture

Episode 21: EQ and Team Culture

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

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Episode 20: How to Optimize the Impact of HR

Episode 20: How to Optimize the Impact of HR

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

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Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance

Episode 18: Culture Driven Governance

Mark Licciardo from Mertons join Karen and Maddie to discuss corporate governance. 

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Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture

Episode 17: Driving Customer Appreciation Through Culture

Karen and Maddie are joined by customer experience expert Darrell from Saguity.

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Episode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team

Episode 16: Getting More Than a Compliant Contribution from Your Team

This week on Work Savvy, Pete Clark joins Karen and Maddie to chat about getting more from your people.

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Episode 15: Building Careers

Episode 15: Building Careers

Karen and Maddie are joined by Nikki Smith, career coach, to chat all about building careers and finding the right career path.

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Episode 14: Assessing Candidates Accurately

Episode 14: Assessing Candidates Accurately

Maddie is back interviewing Karen, but this time they are talking about candidates. So, how do you assess candidates correctly? In the wake of the Great Resignation, lots of HR leaders will be hiring new people so it's a perfect time to share some tips on how to do this right. 

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Episode 13: Difficult Conversations

Episode 13: Difficult Conversations

This week Maddie interviews Karen to talk about conversations. Not just any conversations, but conversations leaders find most challenging. 

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Episode 12: Mental Health and Connection

Episode 12: Mental Health and Connection

Karen and Maddie were joined by the creators of Mind You, Liv Downing and Caroline Weinstein to chat all things mental health.

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Episode 11: Common Reasons Change Efforts Fail

Episode 11: Common Reasons Change Efforts Fail

Why do change efforts often fail? Karen and Maddie chat to Karen Ferris to find out why!

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Episode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business

Episode 9: How to Design the Right Culture for Your Business

Karen and Maddie are joined by fellow HR expert, Cam Shepherd. 

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Episode 8: What to Do When New Team Members Aren't Performing

Episode 8: What to Do When New Team Members Aren't Performing

Karen and Maddie are joined by Catie Paterson to chat about recognising performance issues.

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Episode 5: Smashing the Glass Ceiling

Episode 5: Smashing the Glass Ceiling

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are lucky enough to be joined by Gemma Lloyd fromWork180.

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Episode 2: Through the Eyes of a HR Director

Episode 2: Through the Eyes of a HR Director

Karen and Maddie are joined by Judy Utley from TCV. Together, they discuss the key mistakes leaders make.

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