Grow Your Influence

In this episode we are discussing the tricky topic of working with family.    It’s such a complex topic, yet there are so many family owned and run businesses in Australia and across the world, and even more family members working together in other peoples businesses.    Juliet and Kristy-Lee discuss their experiences working with and supporting family run businesses, and the challenges and opport...

Today we are revisiting a hot topic - Leveraging and Leading Different Generations in the Workplace. In this episode we discuss different generations at work, and we unpack what is brilliant and unique about all of the different generations, share some experiences and thoughts as to what forms different patterns of behaviour between the generation and most importantly look at how we can leverage a...

From the vault! In this episode we revisit how to tackle the bane of everyone's work life: difficult people and how to deal with them, wherever they appear in your work life.

In this weeks episode of our summer series of interviews, Kristy-Lee chats with Anne Maree Wilshire of Vibrant Voices. Anne Maree helps leaders and speakers whose voice is an integral part of their branding to become more impactful, to transform their voice style and message and speak with confidence and authority so they are a voice people want to hear. She does this through her Vibrant Voices Fr...

In this weeks episode of our summer series of interviews, Kristy-Lee chats with Anne Maree Wilshire of Vibrant Voices. Anne Maree helps leaders and speakers whose voice is an integral part of their branding to become more impactful, to transform their voice style and message and speak with confidence and authority so they are a voice people want to hear. She does this through her Vibrant Voices Fr...

In this weeks episode of our summer series of interviews, Kristy-Lee chats with Nicci Richman from Audir, who is a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant with a passion for supporting neurodivergent individuals within the workplace. This is the second part of a 2 part discission and todays chat focuses on understanding neurodivergence within our people, and how we can best leverage this for their succ...

In this weeks episode of our summer series of interviews, Kristy-Lee chats with Nicci Richman from Audir, who is a Diversity and Inclusion Consultant with a passion for supporting neurodivergent individuals within the workplace. This is part 1 of a 2 part discission and todays chat focuses on understanding what neurodivergence is, and how we as leaders can understand and leverage our own neurodive...

In the next of our new year interview series, Juliet chats with Natalie Egleton, the CEO of FRRR since 2015.  FRRR has been at the forefront of responses to the bushfires and floods that have impacted so many communities across rural and regional Australia.  Natalie’s focus on capacity building has grown the organisation from its focus on grant facilitation to a partner that is helping t...

n the second episode of our new year interview series, Kristy-Lee chats with Charissa Lim from Impact Persona. Charissa is a Certified Behavioural Consultant and DISC advocate who’s passionate about helping businesses gain first-hand insights into the people's behavioural traits through one of the world's most popular personality profiling tools. People come with different personalities. Charissa'...

In the first of our new year interview series, Juliet chats with Monique Farmer, the founder and CEO of Women Want Adventure. Monique started the outdoor adventure business six years ago and has navigated bushfires, floods and Covid lockdowns to build a team of 12 staff who help women reconnect with nature and themselves through guided adventures. Monique is passionate about her ‘why’ and keeping...

In this episode we bring you the second and final part of a recent interview Kristy-Lee conducted with Juliet for a Small Business Month event. In November, NSW celebrated Small Business Month, with the theme of ‘connect for success’. As part of our activities, Kristy-Lee hosted a series of ‘connection conversations’ where she interviewed experts from a range of sectors to uncover different ways w...

In this episode we bring you the first part of a recent interview Kristy-Lee conducted with Juliet for a Small Business Month event. In November, NSW celebrated Small Business Month, with the theme of ‘connect for success’. As part of our activities, Kristy-Lee hosted a series of ‘connection conversations’ where she interviewed experts from a range of sectors to uncover different ways we can conne...

In this episode we continue our conversation about culture and this time we are talking about what we need to do as leaders if we want to change our culture. Sometimes we need to consciously make changes and, at other times, things like rapid growth in our business will bring those changes to our door. Change is never ending and when we are growing or innovating this can involve changes to systems...

Culture can sometimes feel like something people refer to but you can’t quite get your hands around. Whilst we are often focused on goals and measures, culture, often described as ‘the way we do things around here’ is the X factor that will help us deliver. Building and maintaining the culture you want isn’t always easy, and it is always led from the top. In this episode we are talking about expli...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are talking about discussing underperformance with someone on our team. This is something that leader across the globe struggle with. Often because we don’t like confrontation, or aren’t sure how to have frank and honest conversations with our team. No matter the reason, putting these conversations off is not doing the right thing by a...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are talking about leadership styles – and it’s such a big topic we may be back for an entire series to go deeper into this area. There is no one size fits all approach to leadership, we all have our own innate styles, and we adopt what we have observed or want to avoid from our own experience. Understanding our leadership style can hel...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are talking about a topic which is so important to the majority of our people – learning at work. In today’s episode we discuss the benefits of learning in the workplace, and investing in learning opportunities for your people and we share strategies that we are seeing work for the organisations we support when it comes to the benefits...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are talking about one of the fundamentals of leading a team, and that is how to engage them, and how to motivate them, and what the difference is between the two. You see if your team aren’t engaged at a foundation level, then all of your motivation strategies can fail to real boost performance so it’s essential you take care of that f...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are finalising our 3-part series on one of the most fundamental pieces of creating and cultivating a great team and culture – trust! Simon Sinek puts it best when he says that ‘a team is not a group of people who work together, it’s a group of people who trust each other’ but knowing how to specifically go about building and nurturing...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are continuing our 3-part series on one of the most fundamental pieces of creating and cultivating a great team and culture – trust! Simon Sinek puts it best when he says that ‘a team is not a group of people who work together, it’s a group of people who trust each other’ but knowing how to specifically go about building and nurturing...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we are kicking off a 3-part series on one of the most fundamental pieces of creating and cultivating a great team and culture – trust! Simon Sinek puts it best when he says that ‘a team is not a group of people who work together, it’s a group of people who trust each other’ but knowing how to specifically go about building and nurturing t...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we’re joined by special guest, Amanda Robinson, Co-CEO of the Australasian operations of Marshall Day Acoustics for the past five years. Amanda is a Mechanical Engineer who has specialised in acoustics since graduating with honours from Adelaide University.  Amanda’s focus on building leadership capability brought Juliet and Amanda t...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Today we're discussing a topic that is often neglected but is so important in leading your team and organisation. Today we're tackling your values and the behaviours that represent them. So often, if we articulate our values at all, we announce them, maybe include them in documents and don't really focus on them any further. The reality is that...

Welcome to the latest episode of Grow Your Influence. Do you ever feel like an imposter? That people will soon work out you don't know as much as they think you do? Do you work on your own so you don't have to share your progress with others or constantly set yourself impossible targets and then chastise yourself when you can't achieve them? All of these are symptoms of what is called Imposter Syn...

Today we're discussing a topic that we could really talk about for hours, and in fact is something that is quite complex, so stay tuned for some future episodes on this. Today we're tackling KPI's - or Key Performance Indicators.