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.
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?
Describe the problem in your own words. We will find useful ideas from real Better@Work conversations, with every source attached.
So the archive is organised around the things people are actually trying to solve.
How do I lead clearly without pretending the work is simple?
0259 conversationsWhat do I do when the old version of success stops fitting?
0367 conversationsHow do we make the way we work feel more human?
0441 conversationsWhat can change when rest is not fixing the problem?
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.
Host, leader and enthusiastic interrogator of workplace nonsense.
Coach, collaborator and the person most likely to ask what this means.
Toughing it out is not resilience. Chronic pressure without recovery drains people, and the ones praised for coping are often closest to the edge.
Conflict at work is not simply a choice between charging in and avoiding it.
Hope at work is not optimism. It is a goal worth reaching, more than one credible route forward and enough agency to move.
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