In the latest instalment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW's Astrid Edwards is joined by FW’s Ruby Leahy Gatfield. They discuss staying focused in uncertainty, balancing team autonomy with guidance, overcoming resistance to change, and handling workplace conflicts.

Question 1: How do you maintain your energy, ambition, and focus over the long haul and in times of uncertainty?

Question 2: How do you strike a nice balance between giving a team autonomy and providing guidance to ensure success?

Question 3: I am after some advice around making my own processes in a new company, the other managers who have been around for longer are giving me 'computer says no'. I have low hanging fruit wins! And I feel very unable to change things up for the better. What would you do?

Question 4: I’ve been feeling like the go-between—getting pulled into meetings not because it’s part of my role, but because two colleagues can’t seem to work things out directly. I wish they could communicate better without needing me in the middle. Any tips?

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In the latest instalment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW's Helen McCabe is joined by Superintendent Janet Stevenson from Victoria Police. They discuss building a relationship with a supervisor who has a different working style, overcoming self-doubt during the job search process and setting personal boundaries at work.

Question 1: How to you build a strong relationship with a supervisor that has a very different working style from you?

Question 2: How do you overcome feelings of self-doubt during the job application process?

Question 3: What is the approach for staff members who prefer to keep their personal lives private?

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In the latest installment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW's Jamila Rizvi and Sally Spicer discuss leading a team through a poor economic climate, owning your differences in the workplace, and navigating long-term relationships during the job search.

1. Yvonne asks: I would love help on leading a team through poor economic climate.
How to find the balance between pushing them harder in the sales teams while noting they are probably feeling more pressure at home too?

2. Adriana asks: How do I own my talents and unique experience in the workplace, but avoid being positioned as eccentric?

3. Mel asks: How to navigate through long term relationships when you're trying really hard to find work but can't? I’m feeling (or being made to feel like) a burden.

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