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 – The People Manager’s Toolkit: How You Can Get the Best From People

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Hosted by HerBusiness

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8 October 2013

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Karen Gately is a highly regarded thought leader in the fields of human performance and leadership. She is the author of The People Manager’s Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Getting the Best From People.

In this interview, Karen Gately provides practical ways to get the best from your people, regardless if you’re a team of 2 or 2000.

Karen explains what your competition can never steal from you and the most common mistakes business owners make when trying to manage effectively.

 

Listen to this herBusiness interview with Karen Gately to learn:

  • About her book, The People Manager’s Toolkit
  • Some of the indicators that we’re being successful in our approach to managing people
  • Mistakes that we often make when defining the business direction for our team
  • How to adopt a strategic approach
  • The reason that people complain when they are not consulted or included in important decisions
  • The three most important factors of effective communication
  • How to encourage a learning culture, even with a small business budget – and why this is so important
  • Tips to get results for managers who are also the business owners

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About the host

Suzi Dafnis

Hi there. I’m Suzi Dafnis, CEO at HerBusiness. My BIG passion is helping women business owners to grow and scale their business, so that they can create their ideal lifestyle and make a difference in the world. Every day I am inspired by the more than 30,000 amazing women (and men!) in our community and I love finding the best education, mentors, and resources from around the globe, to help them get the skills, knowledge, and support they need to succeed. It’s been my privilege to lead HerBusiness (formerly The Australian Businesswomen’s Network) for the past 23 years (two+ decades – WOW!) because, whilst I’ve enjoyed success in business, I’ve also experienced the highs and the lows – sometimes you can feel on top of the world and in control and other times you can feel isolated, exhausted and stuck. What has made the biggest difference for me has always been having great people around me and having a lifelong commitment to learning. That’s why I am so passionate about the work we do here at HerBusiness – providing a Connection Network for women in business to get the mentors, contacts, referrals, knowledge, and skills they need to grow their confidence, make more money, build their businesses, expand their network and create the lives they love. My entrepreneurial journey started in the spare room of my Sydney apartment in 1994 when my business partner and I started a boutique events company that represented speakers and authors from the USA, here in Australia. Over the years I’ve grown multiple multi-million dollar businesses in the events, publishing and education niches – with teams in Australia, New Zealand, and the USA. Not everything has worked and there has been a degree of trial and error, and a lot of bumps in the road. But I have always had a strong commitment to always surrounding myself with great mentors and like-minded peers – a Connection Network that I can depend on and who can depend on me to be there for them too. I truly do what I love, every day.  

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About the guest(s)

Karen Gately

Karen Gately

Karen Gately is a passionate optimist with unwavering belief in the power of the human spirit. A highly regarded thought leader in the fields of human performance and leadership, Karen brings a fresh perspective to what it takes to lead people and teams to reach the peaks of their potential. Over the span of her corporate career, Karen has worked in HR, client service, strategy, planning and quality management leadership roles. In 2006, after eight years as head of human resources for The Vanguard Group in the Asia Pacific, Karen established Ryan Gately, an HR consultancy focused on enabling organisations to thrive through people. Karen is the author of two books: The Corporate Dojo: driving extraordinary results through spirited people and The People Manager’s Toolkit: a practical guide to getting the best from people. At the heart of both is this message: great results happen when talented people invest energy and behave successfully. Karen believes nurturing the human spirit to optimise business performance is not only commercially smart, but also the right thing to do. Karen calls on every leader to realise the opportunity they have to achieve the best possible outcomes for their organisation and while doing so positively impact the health and happiness.

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