Fast Track: Career conversations with Margie Hartley

The costs of negative employees to business is well documented, so how do you manage and impact positive change? Ryan Bonnici, Chief Marketing Officer G2 Crowd discusses the implications of setting clear expectations, establishing time frames for positive change and the benefits of constructive honest conversation with Executive Coach Margie Hartley.

We've all heard the entrepreneurial saying “If you find a job you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” The concept of loving our work has swept the world in the last 20 years and now workers and employers are clashing over return-to-office plans with large sways of the population considering changing jobs and even industry. Margie Hartley talks to journalist and author of ‘Work Won’t Love You Back: How devotion to our jobs keeps us Exploited, Exhausted and Alone,’ Sarah Jaffe, about why our work doesn’t need to be our passion and how to have a mindset around work that’s enabling rather than exhausting.

Does a positive workplace lead to more engaged employees and higher productivity? Does positivity make us successful or is it success that makes us positive? And what does a positive workplace look like? Margie Hartley talks to Clinical and Coaching Psychologist, author and founder of The Positivity Institute, Dr Suzy Green about the evidence-based research that points to a positive workplace as a hugely powerful thing, why positive workplaces require effort to achieve and what individuals and organisations can do to create a positive working environment.

Navigating the world of work and career is difficult at the best of times, and the pandemic has made it even harder. In this milestone 100th episode of Fast Track, Margie Hartley reflects on five impactful guests of the show around how to build psychological safety, dealing with jerks at work, the art of teamwork, the pursuit of perfection and being the coaching leader. Their expert advice and insights are sure to provide motivation and practical tips you can apply to accelerate your own career.

Most of us coach ourselves everyday but we probably aren’t aware that we do it. So how do we coach ourselves effectively and how can we cultivate inner resilience through self-coaching and curate our best possible career? Margie Hartley sits down with Director of the Coaching Psychology Unit at Sydney University, Dr Sean O'Connor to answer these questions and give the cheats guide to coaching yourself at work.