Program: This Working Life

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Lisa Leong

This Working Life helps you navigate your way through the tough times, looking for the sunshine and the humanity in the world of work.

From the quirky to the somewhat controversial, experts in the world of work and business share their ideas, experiments and fast fails that you can apply to your own career.

We're cheaper than therapy and more fun than LinkedIn. Think of us as your digital water cooler.

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How you can be a Friction Fixer at work

Friction is everywhere - from our systems to our relationships at work. But there’s good news - not all friction is bad and if you know how, you can be a friction fixer.

Published: 2 Feb 2024Fri 2 Feb 2024 at 5:00amwith Lisa Leong

A woman tries to calm her angry colleagues in a busy boardroom

Duration: 24 minutes 45 seconds

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Are you paying attention? This is why not.

Finding it hard to get your brain into gear for the work year? You might feel your mind wandering a bit, daydreaming of being back on the beach.

Portrait of Caucasian young man playing with pencil and using phone at workplace suffering from boredom and procrastination

Duration: 24 minutes 56 seconds

Published: 28 Jan 2024Sun 28 Jan 2024 at 2:30amwith Lisa Leong

Feeling a bit stuck? Here's how to progress in your work

Feeling a little bit stuck right now? Like you want to progress on something but feel a bit glued up? Why does this happen to us? It turns out getting stuck is not a bug in our system — it's a feature in our success.

Woman stands in the middle of dark maze. Lights guide the way for her.

Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds

Published: 21 Jan 2024Sun 21 Jan 2024 at 2:30amwith Lisa Leong

Why you should say 'no' more at work

Saying "yes" too often can leave you feeling overwhelmed and perhaps a bit resentful.

a woman looking happy with her mouth open as if she is shouting something with joy. colourful shapes are coming out of her mouth

Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds

Published: 14 Jan 2024Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 2:30amwith Lisa Leong

How to be a leader with both your head and your heart

Our image and expectation of a good leader is changing, and increasingly we're needing them to use both their head and their heart in making decisions.

two animated heads looking at one another. in the left is a brain and in the right is a heart shape

Duration: 25 minutes 15 seconds

Published: 7 Jan 2024Sun 7 Jan 2024 at 2:30amwith Lisa Leong

Feature Articles

'We don't have time to not do it': Why this expert says reading makes you a better worker

Do you think reading fiction is purely for pleasure? These experts explain why there's a whole lot more to gain, in your personal life and at work, from picking up a book.

Arms holding a book against a blue sky, surrounded by field of high grass.

Published: 11 Jan 2024Thu 11 Jan 2024 at 1:02amby Sophie Kesteven, Zoe Ferguson and Lisa Leong

Is your workday filled with meetings? Here's why it's doing you more harm than good

Pushing back against the wave of meeting invitations at work could improve your mood and your productivity. Here's how to go about it.

A tired young Caucasian man with brown hair squints his eyes to focus while holding glasses in hands in a meeting

Published: 13 Nov 2023Mon 13 Nov 2023 at 5:01amby Sophie Kesteven, Lisa Leong and Zoe Ferguson

Here's how you create better habits — and it doesn't involve willpower or fad diets

If you're trying to change bad habits at work or home, this expert says ignore the traditional approaches to changing behaviour.

Next to just visible blue pool water, a woman with sunglasses and stripy top lays with phone held over her face.

Published: 28 Sep 2023Thu 28 Sep 2023 at 7:11pmby Sophie Kesteven, Lisa Leong and Zoe Ferguson

'All the leadership is white': How to address racism in the workplace

Getting rid of racism at work isn't just about training courses and diversity posters. Employees should be become more racially literate.

Molina addresses a crowd while wearing a bright pink sari with black and silver beading.

Published: 4 Sep 2023Mon 4 Sep 2023 at 4:11amby Rachael Bongiorno, Lisa Leong and Sophie Kesteven

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Program: This Working Life

How you can be a Friction Fixer at work

Are you paying attention? This is why not.

Feeling a bit stuck? Here's how to progress in your work

Why you should say 'no' more at work

How to be a leader with both your head and your heart

'We don't have time to not do it': Why this expert says reading makes you a better worker

Is your workday filled with meetings? Here's why it's doing you more harm than good

Here's how you create better habits — and it doesn't involve willpower or fad diets

'All the leadership is white': How to address racism in the workplace

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