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EP010 Creating A Positive Workplace Culture Peak Performer
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In this week's episode, I'm talking with Rob O'Donohue from Gartner Consulting on how to create positive workplace culture for small organisations. You'll learn in this episode that even if you are a solo business owner, you can begin to create the right workplace culture for the future. The seeds planted now while you build your business will be vital for positive workplace culture and growth later.
Guest Biography
Rob O'Donohue is an executive coach at Gartner Consulting advising CIOs through organisational change programs that target leadership development, creation of high-performing teams, solving complex cultural challenges, and enhancing diversity & inclusion within the organisation.
Rob provides leadership team workshop facilitation, team and one-to-one coaching, and his work relies on evidence-based research to better empower CIOs on their transformation journey. In his 20-year career, he's held IT & Business Leadership positions in IT Infrastructure, Project Management, PMO, Strategy, Business Operations, Talent Development, Coaching & Mentoring.
Prior to joining Gartner, he held a Director for Project Management and Leadership Coaching & Mentoring in Team Member Experience Services in Dell IT. In volunteering, Rob was the Communications Director with PMI Ireland Chapter after a two-year term as Regional Officer hosting events in Cork, Galway & Limerick.
Get in touch with Rob O'Donohue
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Rob O'Donohue (00:00):In many ways, it's about culture. It's about leadership. It's about talent and people,and it's about diversity, equity and inclusion. And I'm starting to, dip my, toe a littlebit into sustainability as well, but from the lens of those, those four areas. So it's thehuman side of everything, I would say. And try to yeah. Trying to help leaders, clients,to kind of do better with work and make work more, I suppose, enjoyable andproductive for their people and I'm emphasizing the word people more thanemployees.
Larry Maguire (00:37):Yeah. That, that it's refreshing to hear it because, you know, I suppose us atraditional corporate world would be about, you know, getting things done, turning abook and being profitable. And I suppose the last 10 years, would that be fair thatthings have kind of shifted in terms of the business focus on, on people and creatinga better work environment and a better culture than maybe in the past?
Rob O'Donohue (01:00):Yeah, I would, I would like to think so. I would say I'm probably working 22 years orso now in professional life or whatever that might be. And I guess I've been luckyalong the way to have some really good people managers and leaders that actuallykind of got that early on, but also, without doubt, I've had some that didn't and theyalways made me more determined to be more of a people manager and peopleperson when I, when I did manage. So I think it's the thankfully the more interactionsI'm having and throughout my career, as it progressed, it is yeah. Moving a little bitmore to that. And I would say over the last two years that's accelerated even more asa consequence, you know, of, of the pandemic and people working from home andnow, you know, leaders managers need to, to manage the person as much as just theemployee, you know?
Larry Maguire (01:57):Yeah. And what do you think the,
In this week's episode, I'm talking with Rob O'Donohue from Gartner Consulting on how to create positive workplace culture for small organisations. You'll learn in this episode that even if you are a solo business owner, you can begin to create the right workplace culture for the future. The seeds planted now while you build your business will be vital for positive workplace culture and growth later.
Guest Biography
Rob O'Donohue is an executive coach at Gartner Consulting advising CIOs through organisational change programs that target leadership development, creation of high-performing teams, solving complex cultural challenges, and enhancing diversity & inclusion within the organisation.
Rob provides leadership team workshop facilitation, team and one-to-one coaching, and his work relies on evidence-based research to better empower CIOs on their transformation journey. In his 20-year career, he's held IT & Business Leadership positions in IT Infrastructure, Project Management, PMO, Strategy, Business Operations, Talent Development, Coaching & Mentoring.
Prior to joining Gartner, he held a Director for Project Management and Leadership Coaching & Mentoring in Team Member Experience Services in Dell IT. In volunteering, Rob was the Communications Director with PMI Ireland Chapter after a two-year term as Regional Officer hosting events in Cork, Galway & Limerick.
Get in touch with Rob O'Donohue
Transcript Extract
Transcript PDF
Rob O'Donohue (00:00):In many ways, it's about culture. It's about leadership. It's about talent and people,and it's about diversity, equity and inclusion. And I'm starting to, dip my, toe a littlebit into sustainability as well, but from the lens of those, those four areas. So it's thehuman side of everything, I would say. And try to yeah. Trying to help leaders, clients,to kind of do better with work and make work more, I suppose, enjoyable andproductive for their people and I'm emphasizing the word people more thanemployees.
Larry Maguire (00:37):Yeah. That, that it's refreshing to hear it because, you know, I suppose us atraditional corporate world would be about, you know, getting things done, turning abook and being profitable. And I suppose the last 10 years, would that be fair thatthings have kind of shifted in terms of the business focus on, on people and creatinga better work environment and a better culture than maybe in the past?
Rob O'Donohue (01:00):Yeah, I would, I would like to think so. I would say I'm probably working 22 years orso now in professional life or whatever that might be. And I guess I've been luckyalong the way to have some really good people managers and leaders that actuallykind of got that early on, but also, without doubt, I've had some that didn't and theyalways made me more determined to be more of a people manager and peopleperson when I, when I did manage. So I think it's the thankfully the more interactionsI'm having and throughout my career, as it progressed, it is yeah. Moving a little bitmore to that. And I would say over the last two years that's accelerated even more asa consequence, you know, of, of the pandemic and people working from home andnow, you know, leaders managers need to, to manage the person as much as just theemployee, you know?
Larry Maguire (01:57):Yeah. And what do you think the,
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