35 min

#9. Challenging the Status Quo - Karin Tenelius What’s Your Work?

    • Careers

“If we had 100 million, what would we do? Exactly what we do now…”

CEO of Tufflederskarptraning and author of Coaching Jobseekers, Karin Tenelius, is an expert in creating work places built on employee power. In this episode she and Darius discuss the flaws in conventional working weeks, how covid has changed the way that businesses operate, and a vision for how day-to-day working could be. Karin also explains being “allergic to meetings that aren’t empowering” and what happens when your work is rooted in your calling.

Show Notes:


We packed a lot into a short period of time this episode, so here are some links to various resources for different themes. On this idea of having a job that relates to your life’s mission, you can listen to our first podcast episode on Values here, and read our blog post here. On changing the way you or your team works for the better, you can read a blog post from Karin on reinvention here.
Tuff Leadership Training, the company Karin founded, delivers self-management and coaching courses which you can enroll in here.
Karin Tenelius is a pioneer in coaching jobseekers, entrepreneurship and leadership training. In addition to founding Tuff and her decades of experience working all over the world, she is the author of two books: Coaching Jobseekers and Moose Heads on the Table: Stories about self-managing organisations from Sweden (co-author Lisa Gill.) You can find her on Twitter @ktenelius.
We want to hear from you! Write into the show by visiting our website: https://whatsyour.work/
Audio mix and edit by Hula & Co. Music.

A transcript of this episode is available to read here.

“If we had 100 million, what would we do? Exactly what we do now…”

CEO of Tufflederskarptraning and author of Coaching Jobseekers, Karin Tenelius, is an expert in creating work places built on employee power. In this episode she and Darius discuss the flaws in conventional working weeks, how covid has changed the way that businesses operate, and a vision for how day-to-day working could be. Karin also explains being “allergic to meetings that aren’t empowering” and what happens when your work is rooted in your calling.

Show Notes:


We packed a lot into a short period of time this episode, so here are some links to various resources for different themes. On this idea of having a job that relates to your life’s mission, you can listen to our first podcast episode on Values here, and read our blog post here. On changing the way you or your team works for the better, you can read a blog post from Karin on reinvention here.
Tuff Leadership Training, the company Karin founded, delivers self-management and coaching courses which you can enroll in here.
Karin Tenelius is a pioneer in coaching jobseekers, entrepreneurship and leadership training. In addition to founding Tuff and her decades of experience working all over the world, she is the author of two books: Coaching Jobseekers and Moose Heads on the Table: Stories about self-managing organisations from Sweden (co-author Lisa Gill.) You can find her on Twitter @ktenelius.
We want to hear from you! Write into the show by visiting our website: https://whatsyour.work/
Audio mix and edit by Hula & Co. Music.

A transcript of this episode is available to read here.

35 min