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The Worker Learner

Professional Learning Hub

21 episodes

7 months ago

Featuring stories and insights for our working lives, The Worker Learner podcast is brought to you by the Professional Learning Hub, Griffith University’s platform for executive and professional education.

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Episodes (20/21)

The Worker Learner

Beyond problems - exploring solutions-focused coaching in high-stakes environments

As Dr Mark McKergow and Paul Z Jackson celebrate the publication of the 3rd edition of their landmark coaching book, The Solutions Focus, they join Associate Professor Samuel Wilson and Dr Andrew Rixon on The Worker Learner podcast to explore how a solutions-focused approach can be applied in the high stakes environment of an emergency department. This is an invaluable conversation for not only health professionals but anyone faced with complex problems.

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1 year ago

36 minutes 15 seconds

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What's on the line? Leadership and critical decision making in the ER

In this episode of The Worker Learner, Andrew Rixon and Samuel Wilson are in conversation with Dan Dworkis M.D., emergency physician and founder of The Emergency Mind. This is essential listening for anyone who has ever wondered about leadership and decision making in moments of crisis.

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1 year ago

28 minutes 59 seconds

The Worker Learner

Collaborating to change the water sector: Brian McIntosh in conversation with Wouter Lincklaen Arriens

In this episode of The Worker Learner, Associate Professor Brian McIntosh and Adjunct Associate Professor Wouter Lincklaen Arriens explore collaboration, leadership and how skills in both directly impact the water sector (and every sector) and our collective efforts to address climate change.

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1 year ago

31 minutes 46 seconds

The Worker Learner

More than profit: Johanna Nalau in conversation with The People's Kian Bakhtiari

In this episode of The Worker Learner Associate Professor Johanna Nalau talks social impact and amplifying the voice of young people in business with The People's Kian Bakhtiari. With a background in politics and marketing, Kian saw an opportunity to go beyond 'selling stuff' and founded The People, an agency driven by imagination and a desire to build a more inclusive and sustainable future.

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1 year ago

37 minutes 45 seconds

The Worker Learner

Ideation: the intersection of business and creativity. Johanna Nalau in conversation with Thomas Weaver

In this episode Johanna Nalau chats with entrepreneur and author, Thomas Weaver. Thomas' work cuts across business and creative practice and deals with the big issues facing the world of today and tomorrow. As we stare down a future of climate crisis and emergent A.I., it might be that asking the creative 'what if' question will help us steer towards a more sustainable, and human-friendly future.

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1 year ago

30 minutes 44 seconds

The Worker Learner

The new activism: community, joy & love. Hannah Moloney in conversation with Saffron Benner

Anyone who watches the ABC's Gardening Australia will be familiar with Hannah Moloney. From her hillside pink house in Hobart her enthusiasm for permaculture knows no bounds. In this episode, Dr Saffron Benner discovers that underneath Hannah's bubbly persona is a driven activist. This engaging conversation suggests that whether we find ourselves in the garden or at work, community, joy and love is our greatest superpower.

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2 years ago

34 minutes 20 seconds

The Worker Learner

Practice of the imagination: Saffron Benner in conversation with David Pledger

Dr Saffron Benner in conversation with leading contemporary artist and thinker, Dr David Pledger. Whether you label yourself an artist or not, this is a timely conversation about considering the creative impulse that informs what we're all doing, how we're doing it, and why we're doing it, and what that means as we contend with an uncertain future.

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2 years ago

38 minutes 58 seconds

The Worker Learner

Risky Business: Johanna Nalau talks risk and resilience with James Thompson (Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, FM Global)

With nearly 200 years of experience, commercial property insurer FM Global approaches the idea of risk differently. With an immersive training centre in Singapore where participants use virtual reality and gameplay to explore risk, they are at the cutting edge of climate adaptation. In this episode, Dr Johanna Nalau talks risk and resilience with FM Global's James Thompson (Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific Division, FM Global).

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2 years ago

26 minutes 19 seconds

The Worker Learner

Olympic opportunity: Dr Kimberly Camrass in conversation with Dr Saffron Benner

In this episode Dr Kimberly Camrass, Director - Climate Positive Brisbane 2032, talks with Dr Saffron Banner, Manager of Griffith University's Sustainability Office, about the preparations underway leading up to the Olympic Games, and why the Olympics means so much for QLD beyond sports. The games are an opportunity to build a better region, now and for the future.

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2 years ago

30 minutes 36 seconds

The Worker Learner

Life after sport: Johanna Griggs discusses strategies for wellbeing in the workplace with Professor Donna Pendergast

In this candid conversation between much loved Australian media personality, Johanna Griggs, and Professor Donna Pendergast, Johanna shares her transition from athlete to media presenter, and charts the highs and lows of her 30 year career and how throughout all of this she always kept one eye on her wellbeing.

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2 years ago

25 minutes 26 seconds

The Worker Learner

Climate change, art and the boardroom: David Finnigan in conversation with Dr Saffron Benner

David Finnigan is a theatre maker at the intersection of art, science and the corporate world. In this conversation with Dr Saffron Benner from Griffith University's Sustainability Office, David explores the role of the artist as the world grapples with climate change, and details how artistic practice can open up creative spaces for useful conversations.

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2 years ago

33 minutes 38 seconds

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Success starts with community: Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM in conversation with Steve Mitchell (CEO, Gold Coast Titans)

Dr Dinesh Palipana OAM and Steve Mitchell (CEO of the Gold Coast Titans) explore the idea that a football club's success relies on more than just winning on the field. Connection to community and community pride is really what makes or breaks a team.

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2 years ago

28 minutes 1 second

The Worker Learner

Cybercrime: Professor Ernest Foo in conversation with investigator Graeme Edwards

From insider threats to malicious attachments to the emotional turmoil of romance scams, there are endless ways to fall victim to cybercrime. In this podcast, Professor Ernest Foo interviews Graeme Edwards from the Queensland Police Service Financial and Cyber Crime Group about the increasing complexity and prevalence of cybercrime.

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2 years ago

27 minutes 34 seconds

The Worker Learner

Rebuilding Binna Burra: Dr Johanna Nalau in conversation with Steve Noakes

In this conversation Dr Johanna Nalau discusses the recovery of South East Queensland's much-loved Binna Burra with Steve Noakes (Chair, Board of Directors). When many of the historic buildings of Binna Burra were destroyed in the 2019 by bushfires, it was Steve who became the public face of the remarkable and tenacious rebuilding process. This is vital listening for anyone interested in business resilience in a time of climate change.

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2 years ago

32 minutes 5 seconds

The Worker Learner

Blockchain and water: a conversation with Katrina Donaghy and Fraser MacLeod

Associate Professor Brian McIntosh in conversation with Civic Ledger's CEO Katrina Donaghy and Fraser MacLeod. This is a conversation that draws together two seemingly unrelated things, blockchain and water, and explores the innovative ways that the technology of blockchain can be used to manage the Earth's most precious resource - water.

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3 years ago

45 minutes 49 seconds

The Worker Learner

Bali business: Dr Johanna Nalau in conversation with restauranteur and festival director, Janet De Neefe

Dr Johanna Nalau discusses living and working in Bali with entrepreneur, restauranteur, author and festival director, Janet De Neefe. After moving to Bali for love over 30 years ago, Janet has carved out a successful life in her adopted homeland. In response to the Bali bombings of 2002 Janet created the Ubud Writers & Readers Festival. This conversation explores Janet's unique sense of entrepreneurialism, which is fuelled by creativity, ingenuity and resilience.

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3 years ago

29 minutes 29 seconds

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Resilience and community: a conversation with Dr Jean Renouf

Pracademic Dr Jean Renouf shares with Dr. Johanna Nalau his journey from working in war zones to becoming a (prac)academic to the formation of the community organisation Resilient Byron. Jean unpacks the patterns of a disaster, and explores the mindset and skills needed by individuals, businesses and communities as they face times of great upheaval.

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3 years ago

35 minutes 49 seconds

The Worker Learner

Water and beer: a conversation with brewer Sarah Laing

Let's talk about beer! In this episode Associate Professor Brian McIntosh discusses how water is used and managed in the brewing process with CUB Abbotsford Head Brewer, Sarah Laing. A conversation for anyone interested in beer (we know there are a lot of you out there) and the brewing process, and how breweries manage their water consumption up and down the supply chain, and how they position themselves within the community.

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3 years ago

32 minutes 8 seconds

The Worker Learner

Lessons from the ED: Dr Dinesh Palipana interviews Dr Shahina Braganza

In this intimate and moving conversation Dr Dinesh Palipana interviews his boss, Dr Shahina Braganza. Both work in the high pressure environment of the emergency department of the Gold Coast Hospital. They discuss the pressure and the burn out that can be the result of working in the ED, and how they overcome it by teamwork and embracing vulnerability. This is a deeply personal conversation that not only sheds light on a high stakes profession, but delicately examines the emotional landscape of all our working lives.

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3 years ago

32 minutes 43 seconds

The Worker Learner

My job walking the length of the Earth: a conversation with Lucy Barnard

Lucy Barnard is attempting to become the first woman to walk the length of the Earth from the southernmost tip of South America to the highest point of Alaska. In case you're wondering, that's 30,000 kilometres. At the end of an enforced COVID pause, Lucy is about to recommence her trek. In this episode, Dr Johanna Nalau discusses Lucy's grand adventure, and explores what motivates her, how she sets goals and how she keeps putting one foot in front of the other.

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3 years ago

29 minutes 39 seconds