Thriving in Uncertainty – Episode Nine with Gina Dolan
What draws people leaders to managing, well, people? Is it curiosity about the world and the people in it? Is it the ability to problem-solve and be innovative? Is it grit? No one answer fits all, but certainly, these attributes play a significant part. This week, we dive into growth mindsets, failures, and flex workforces with people leader Gina Dolan.
Gina is the General Manager of People and Culture at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), and she joins us in this episode to share her experiences of grit and the ability to persist and lead others through uncertainty. Together, we break down the stigma attached to making mistakes and how courageous leaders can pause and reflect when the emotions are running high and admit to their workforce that they don’t always have all the answers.
Gina also shares her perspectives on managing a hybrid and geographically dispersed workforce, including how working together has changed the importance of how contact with people remotely has to be more deliberate than in the office and how creating rituals and ways of working can encompass individual needs and embrace the needs of a diverse workforce.
Gina’s motto of “no surprises,” creating a safe space where there is nothing you can’t talk to her about as there is no judgement, is refreshing. Her crucial advice on investing in yourself, being a decent human being, and paying it forward to others around you embraces what authentic and adaptive leadership is about all.
We hope you enjoy this excellent episode with a great people leader.
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Gina Dolan
General Manager
People and Culture
Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
Gina is the General Manager of People and Culture at the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission or ACCC. Gina is an accomplished HR professional with extensive global transformation experience in the private and public sectors. With a keen understanding of workplace culture and leadership, she excels in leading teams to achieve operational excellence and streamline processes, with the ability to simplify complex HR challenges and provide practical solutions.
Tune in next week as we speak to a new trailblazer in another episode in our series on Thriving in Uncertainty.
Embracing organisational change - episode four
We’re glad you could join us for another great episode in our series on embracing organisational change.
Our fourth episode focuses on the pivotal transformational change that organisations must embrace, which is playing the new talent game. This episode will dive into the essential factors in what it takes to attract, retain and reduce employee attrition in the public sector.
With more than a third of Australian Public Service employees reported as wanting to leave within the next two years, according to the June 2022 APS Census, one correlation you can draw is that leaders need to look for ways to bridge the gap between employee expectations and employer needs. In this episode, Andy talks with Tina McAllister, Acting Director of People and Culture at the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries for the Queensland Government, as Tina provides her Queensland lens to questions on what it is that employees want, how leaders can respond, ways to to managing flexibility within the workforce, and the role that internal mobility plays for employee retention and ways of addressing it.
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Tina is Human Resource (HR) /People and Culture professional with 28 years of experience across an array of human resource focus areas. For the past two decades she has committed her energy to Public Service with Queensland Government and within that time she has served in HR leadership roles for over 15 years.
Tina is passionate about enabling organisational performance through the development of people at all levels via the creation and implementation of initiatives, processes, policies and frameworks that contribute to positive organisational culture, capability and employee experience.
Please tune in next week as we talk with Pia Andrews for the fifth and final episode in our series, which will be about adopting new technologies responsibly.
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Trailblazing with CorbettPrice Podcast - Episode 7
This week concludes our podcast series on organisational health and the seven dimensions of wellness. We hope you have enjoyed the series and find the insights and perspectives of all our trailblazers helpful. In the final episode of our first series, we explore the seventh dimension of organisational health, the relational dimension, which is all about learning and development.
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With changing employee expectations around the learning and development opportunities organisations offer to improve their overall wellbeing, L&D managers face meeting these expectations to future-proof their organisation and attract and retain the best talent.
How and what must L&D managers focus on to provide these opportunities to employees in a hybrid working environment, and how can they empower employees to build and maintain an A-grade team?
David Powell, author, founder, and life skills mentor of The Golden Thread, joins Andy in this enlivening discussion to provide ways that L&D managers can offer learning and development opportunities that build self, relationship, and team interpersonal skills to empower their workforce in their lifelong learning journey to mastery.
David and Andy discuss the importance of mindfulness and provide examples of how powerful meditation practices can be at both the individual level and the potential contribution this can unleash at an organisational level.
This episode is jam-packed with practical advice, real-life examples, and different perspectives on boosting the relational dimension of organisational health. Listen now to hear David’s meditation based on Alpha Dynamics to get you into the blue…
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David’s passion lies in empowering people to achieve the success they seek in life. David is the founder of The Golden Thread’s online toolkit, Life Journey Skills and recipient of The Visioneers’ 2022 global award in recognition of his work to benefit humanity.
Born in the UK, David gained a first-class honours degree in chemical engineering at Edinburgh University and worked in the resources and IT industries for 24 years, leading many teams to success.
Realising that his passion lay in empowering people, he became a business skills trainer, facilitator, and mentor. Over almost three decades, David has helped individuals and teams in hundreds of organisations, across 30 countries and five continents to improve their lives and business performance.
After finishing university, David spent a year driving a Land Rover overland from the UK to Australia and became fascinated with the different religions and cultures that he encountered. These travels were the genesis for his lifelong research into history, religion, gnostic wisdom and psychology - to discover how to best empower people. The result is his unique ability to synthesise the latest scientific thinking and the ancient wisdom to address, and inspire the whole person - body, mind, emotions and the deeper inner being.
This is the lifetime of experience and learning that David has condensed into his online Life Journey Skills program. He teaches the essential life skills - that people don’t learn at school - so that they can thrive at life. David’s book, Life Journey Skills, is also available for free on kindle or to purchase in hardcover from amazon.
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/david-powell-89539276/
Amazon: Life Journey Skills