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How to approach a career transition with Renée Giarrusso

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Renée Giarrusso is a highly sought-after communication, leadership & mindset expert. She is a speaker, International 4-time award-winning author, facilitator, educator and coach (PCC). She works with leaders, teams and organisations to energise mindset and accelerate communication, collaboration and leadership to lift performance and culture. Her sole purpose is to make workplaces exceptional places to work. The team at PRP have been working in partnership with Renée for a number of years across her various programs. We sat down with Renée to talk about her Awaken Career Transition program, which you can read below.

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Generational Games ​– building a great cross-generational team.

October 31, 2023
​In today's diverse workforce, success often hinges on the ability to adapt and evolve. This was the focus in a recent discussion hosted by Wendy Born from Business Value Partners, to members of the National Electrical Communications Authority. Wendy was joined by our Directo r, Andrew Bath an d Senior Con sultant, Ella O’Connell . Collectively, Andrew and Ella bring over 25 years of experience in recruiting across diverse industries and successfully working with millennials and Gen Zs. ​During the discussion, they explored recruitment strategies, steps to creating thriving cross-generational teams, and the benefits Millennials and Gen Zs bring to the workplace. Below we have compiled three key takeaways from the discussion for your perusal. Dive in below! ​ ​What are the benefits of employing millennials and Gen Zs? There are a multitude of benefits that come along with employing millennials and Gen Zs within your business. Andrew and Ella discussed how younger generations are not just committed employees but also drivers of change. They challenge process, modernise business, and bring a fresh perspective that’s vital to stay relevant in today’s world. ​In Andrew’s words, “having the younger generation in our team brings diversity of thought and fresh knowledge. I get to learn different things and new technologies, and how they can add value to the business”.​

LEADERSHIP IN A CRISIS

Andrew Bath • April 20, 2020

Recently Project Resource Partners were fortunate enough to partner with Gavin Freeman of The Business Olympian, who presented on ‘Leadership in a Crisis’. The presentation was the first in a series we are doing for business leaders. The next one is on Thursday 23 April at 1pm. If you are interested in knowing more then please contact me at abath@projectresourcepartners.com.au or on 03 9949 8104. 


Below is a summary of my takeaways, though I am not even going to try and do justice to Gavin’s presentation. I would say that if you get the chance to listen to or engage Gavin, I would highly recommend taking the opportunity. 


The presentation took the perspective of how in a crisis, as leaders we need to move from doing our ‘Bruce Wayne’ like day job where we know what to expect, to ‘Batman’, where the enemy does not allow us to prepare. 


These were my top ten takeaways on how I can try and become Batman, or more pertinently the best leader for my team:


  1. Mindset is key as we deal with the unknown, it needs to be a ‘can do’ attitude and positive. 
  2. Beware the of our brain, emotion can overtake logic, particularly when we are without our normal cues and working remotely. 
  3. Times of uncertainty,, change and ambiguity can lead to Amygdala Hijack, where we have an exaggerated personal and emotional response to an event. Think an over tired three3 year old not allowed an ice cream! 
  4. We need to try and understand and recognisze these situations early, and have a plan to deal with them so that we can replicate our decision-making processes and actions under pressure 
  5. This is where we need to be resilient, so being relentlessly persistent while having sustained appropriate focus, with the understanding that the ‘appropriate’ may change more quickly in the current climate 
  6. Is it success or the avoidance of failure that motivates us? If it’s success then failures will be bumps on the road to success we deal with quickly, or failure avoidance will lead to defensiveness, blame and less collaboration 
  7. Do we know who all our stakeholders are – primary and secondary? Our team’s families will be important to our teams more so today than ever and in the decisions that they make. This makes it important for us to act authentically and quickly. 
  8. Beware of the words and unconscious bias we have when interpreting and passing on a message, they alter it. This makes it important for us to be humble and willing to share our stories and feelings to provide our teams with the feeling of psychological safety. 
  9. This means understanding what is important to our teams, so that our workn filters don’t block what is important to our audience. 
  10. Across our businesses we need to understand what the triggers to act are. These relate to our people, external stakeholders, financials, operations, the market and risk velocity (how quickly will the risk impact). 


To watch the workshop, you can do so here: