In the latest installment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW’s Astrid Edwards and Lauren Beckman tackle questions around managing top performers, navigating career transitions, and preparing for psychometric assessments.

1. Lucy asks:
   How can I show my top-performing sales manager that she's valued without promoting her to a team leader role, which would take her away from selling?
2. Anon asks, After maternity leave, I’ve realised I no longer want to return to my previous role. How do I transition to something new without negatively impacting my mental wellbeing?
3. Ophelia asks, How should I approach psychometric testing, and how can I prepare, especially as a neurodivergent individual? Should I disclose this to my potential employer?

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In the latest instalment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW's Sally Spicer and Maeva Dedy discuss how to set clear boundaries in a new leadership role, tips for leading a remote team and how to demonstrate you are ready for a promotion.

1. Anon asks, How can I set clear boundaries when starting a new leadership role that has been communicated from the beginning as full-on and demanding?
2. Anon asks, Tips and tricks to lead remote workers/teams?
3. Melissa asks, How do I show my leadership team that I am capable of being a manager? Should I start a vague chat or go in hard with where I see myself.

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In the latest instalment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW's Sally Spicer and Nidhi Kalaiya discuss how to approach being asked about career breaks and how to be seen in the workplace as an introvert.

1. Michelle asks, I am at a crossroads career-wise. I am the executive at a small incorporated association. I have very little hands on help in my role but high output expectations from the board. How do I stay put and develop my skills, or do I move on to a larger company in a lower position or do I focus on a career change (into politics) and just do my job until I have the opportunity to jump into politics.
2. Anon asks, How do you navigate being in a team as an introvert when everyone else is very dominant and extroverted? I find it hard to demonstrate my abilities, and my manager seems to favour outgoing personalities.
3. Anon asks, How do I craft an elevator statement (or alike) for people persistently asking about a career break when I'm not yet ready to talk about it? I've tried to shut it down before, but people seem to keep asking about it.

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In the latest instalment of Leadership: Your Questions Answered, FW's Helen McCabe and Sally Spicer discuss being visible when working remotely, stepping up as a leader and being a team player who toots your own horn too.

1. Anonymous asks: How to make your presence known when you work remotely from the managers who are in office? How do you best communicate your wins and successes to them when you can't see them everyday and know if it's too little or too much?
2. Melissa asks: I have been in my company for five years and would love to step up. How do I show my leadership team that I am capable of being a manager? Should I start a vague chat or go in hard with where I see myself?
3. Sairah asks: As a team player - someone who cares more about helping a group or team to succeed, than about one's own individual success. How can I be both a team player and reach my individual success parameters?

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Jamila Rizvi and Briana Blackett offered valuable insights on managing workloads through KPIs, navigating career breaks, and identifying company culture during interviews.

This Weeks Questions

1. Anon asks, how can I ask my manager to give me some KPIs instead of just throwing work at me. How do I manage up?
2. Bibiana asks, I am an overseas-graduated social worker with a 7-year gap while migrating to Australia. I want to return to social work, but here it focuses on mental health and disability, areas in which I lack experience. Despite job hunting, I haven't been successful. Should I continue to try or change careers?
3. Anon asks, what questions can I ask in an interview to really extract what the company culture is like?

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This week Briana Blackett and Lauren Beckman discussed the best ways to give a memorable speech, what do ask for from the people you're refereering and how to encourage Gen Z team members to speak up.

This Weeks Questions

• Anon asks, I have to give a big presentation to an external group. Any advice on how to bring big speaker energy and make myself memorable?
• Anon asks, What do you ask for from the people you're refereeing? If the reports are written, do you ask for the candidate to propose a response?
• Anon asks, How do I encourage Gen Z members of my team to speak up and give feedback?

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For our May 17th episode, FW’s Founder and Managing Director, Helen McCabe and Head of Implementation, Amanda Adderley discuss how to navigate conflict with a coworker, how to articulate your professional strengths and how to push for new practises in the workplace.

This week's questions

• Anon asks, I am 6 months into a new role and am really enjoying it. However, I am experiencing a visceral tension between myself and two colleagues who I work closest with. I'm trying my best to show up every day, but am feeling pretty defeated. How can I move forward?
• Anon asks, How do I best articulate my professional strengths when I’m putting myself forward for job interviews or promotions?
• Melissa asks, When colleagues value years of experience over current research-based practices, how do you change the status quo when the push-back is fierce because the new practices challenge people's current ways or personal bias?

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For our May 3rd episode, FW's Deputy Managing Director, Jamila Rizvi, and Head of Canberra Learning Program, Lauren Beckman , answered your career questions about balancing the return to work while managing a chronic illness, deciding whether to take your side hustle on full time and bringing your 'authentic' self to work without having disclose mental illness.

This week's questions

• Anna asks, I'm searching for meaningful work and trying to balance a good income/job security with a need for part time work (due to chronic illness). Has anyone has tackled this well and found an approach that has satisfied most of their needs?
• Maddi asks, I don’t know if I should take the route of staying in my job and doing a “side hustle”, doing social media work and work my way up to launching into my own company, or continue on the grind of working up the corporate ladder. Any thoughts, suggestions or guidance?
• Kim asks, I am a professional in a leadership role and I also live with a complex mental illness that is heavily stigmatised and misunderstood. I do not feel like I can ever bring my whole self to work because of this. Do you have any tips on how I can bring as much of myself to work without having to disclose my illness?
  
  

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