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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. 

We're excited for you to listen and discover how to be Work Savvy! 

You can listen to the latest episode below or browse our library to catch up on any episodes you might have missed.

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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 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 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance

Episode 33: Using Cognitive Science to Transform Business Performance

Ethan Glessich from Kognitive joins the show to chat all about cognitive science and business performance.

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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 28: Communicating Through Tough Times

Episode 28: Communicating Through Tough Times

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

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Episode 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader

Episode 27: What It Takes to Be an Effective Executive Leader

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

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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 24: Performance Reviews

Episode 24: Performance Reviews

Maddie interviews Karen all about getting the most out of performance reviews.

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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 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 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 7: Finding Great Candidates

Episode 7: Finding Great Candidates

Karen and Maddie are joined by Karen O'Brien to chat about recruitment and how you can go about finding great candidates for your team or business.  

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Episode 6: Working and leading remotely

Episode 6: Working and leading remotely

On this podcast episode Karen and Maddie are joined by their favourite ‘Potentialist’, Richard Day. 

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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 3: The Art of Powerful Conversations

Episode 3: The Art of Powerful Conversations

Karen and Maddie are joined by Gretchen Gagel from Greatness Consulting. Difficult and powerful conversations are dissected on this week's podcast.

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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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