B@W
Podcast archive · 1 hr 16 min
29 September 2026
Are You Listening, or Just Waiting to Speak? | Neil Mullarkey
A good conversation changes what you say next.
LeadershipTeams & culture
A podcast for real working life
Honest conversations.Useful waysto work better.
Cathal Quinlan and Annette Sloan find the ideas worth keeping, ask the questions work tends to avoid, and turn every conversation into something you can actually use.
91 conversationsIdeas for real working lifeAU · UK · US
Guest ideaWhat is worth keeping?
Take it offlineWhat does it change?
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Work Problem Finder
What are you working through?
Describe the problem in your own words. We will find useful ideas from real Better@Work conversations, with every source attached.
Start with the problem
Work rarely arrives in neat categories.
So the archive is organised around the things people are actually trying to solve.
0169 conversations
Leadership
How do I lead clearly without pretending the work is simple?
0260 conversationsCareer change
What do I do when the old version of success stops fitting?
0369 conversationsTeams & culture
How do we make the way we work feel more human?
0441 conversationsEnergy & burnout
What can change when rest is not fixing the problem?
The guest gives us the idea. We work out whether it survives Monday.
Let's Take This OfflineMeet Cathal & Annette
Two perspectives. One useful question.
Cathal brings the practitioner’s instinct. Annette brings the coach’s clarity. After the interview, they take the big ideas offline, test them against real work and answer a listener question.
CQCathal Quinlan
Host, leader and enthusiastic interrogator of workplace nonsense.
ASAnnette Sloan
Coach, collaborator and the person most likely to ask what this means.
From the archive
Three conversations worth your next hour.
Listener questions
Q&A
How to Say No at Work (With Respect)
Saying yes to one thing leaves less time for something else. So how do you decide what deserves your attention?
Podcast archive
B@W
How to Lead Without Doing It All Yourself with Caroline Webb
Season 5 starts with the guest who started it all. Caroline Webb is back, tackling a question every overloaded leader needs to answer: what should you stop doing yourself?
Better Moments
BM 7
Resilience Has a Ceiling
Toughing it out is not resilience. Chronic pressure without recovery drains people, and the ones praised for coping are often closest to the edge.
Put the idea to work
Listening is the beginning.
Better Careers
Thinking about what comes next? Start with our career conversations.
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