Fast Track: Career conversations with Margie Hartley

Ep 60: The Burnout Epidemic

We tend to think of burnout as a problem that can be solved with some simple self-care, but evidence shows that it’s is a rapidly evolving workplace phenomenon and organisations need to take the lead in developing a strategy to prevent it. Margie Hartley talks to award winning journalist and author of The Burnout Epidemic, Jennifer Moss to find out why burnout is so widespread, what it looks like in the workplace and how leaders can ensure their employees aren't chronically overworked.

Ep 59: Your Career Toolkit

Networking, negotiating, communicating, leading and career planning are all critical to our career success. But does anyone ever teach us these skills? Margie Hartley talks to Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You, to find out how we can master these vital skills and stay ahead of the curve in our career progression.

Ep 58: Taking the entrepreneurial plunge

Many people have been prompted to rethink the way and why of their work, and whether they should start their own business and be their own boss during and post Covid. Is the dream potentially a reality or just hype? And what do we really need to do to take the entrepreneurial plunge? Margie Hartley sits down with experienced business builder and board member Jeff Cooper, to discuss whether it's better to be an employee or take the plunge into entrepreneurship.
 

Ep 57: Are you competing or collaborating?

Why do we often end up competing against our work team mates and what exactly do we compete for? Is this instinct, or the badly constructed system of workplaces? Margie Hartley talks to Lex Dwyer, director of Corporate Fitness Services to discuss the paradox of competition and collaboration at work and how we can combine the two to be our most effective.

Ep 56: What are you lying about?

Are we the most self-obsessed generation in history? Margie Hartley talks to Simon Hammond, Adj. Professor & Industry Fellow, Faculty of Business and Law, Swinburne University and author of Brutal Truths, Surviving in a World of Lies, Taboos and Bullshit; to find out how we have lost our tribes and why individualism has been favoured over collectivism.

Ep 55: Workplace culture in 2021

If 2020 showed us anything, it’s the importance of fostering a positive culture at work, but how can we improve work culture if we're not in the office? Margie Hartley sits down with Founder and CEO of The Culture Equation, Hiam Sakakini to discuss the importance of good leadership in the workplace, change management and how to create a work environment that employees actually want to be a part of.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Ep 54: Normalising Narcissism: How to manage a narcissist (Part 3)

Big-noting, dominating meetings, taking credit for other people's work and manipulating the truth are all signs of a narcissist at work. Margie Hartley sits down with Associate Professor of Coaching and Counselling Be Pannell, in the third of a three part series to discuss how to best manage and deal with narcissistic personalities in a work environment.

Ep 53: Normalising Narcissism: Narcissists around us (Part 2)

How do we recognise a narcissist and what's the best way to cope with gaslighting, stonewalling, baiting and bread-crumbing behaviour? Margie Hartley sits down with Associate Professor of Coaching and Counselling Be Pannell, in the second of a three part series to discuss how narcissists see the world and the behaviour to look out for in relationships.

Ep 52: Normalising Narcissism (Part 1)

We have all labelled someone we know or work with as a narcissist at some point. There are many myths about what the characteristics of narcissism actually are and whether narcissists are simply self-promoting, high-flying manipulators. Margie Hartley sits down with Associate Professor of Coaching and Counselling Be Pannell in the first of a three part series looking at how to recognise a narcissist and how to cope with this behaviour in different environments.

Ep 51: Why doing good is good business

Can a toilet roll help change the world for the better? Margie Hartley speaks with Simon Griffiths, CEO of social enterprise 'Who Gives a Crap,' a toilet paper company that builds toilets in the developing world. They discuss how Simon went from corporate high-flyer to leader of a not-for-profit organisation fighting for social change, and how to make a global impact with small attainable changes.