Often the toughest decisions are those that affect other people. Here winners of the Women in Leadership awards share their hardest calls.
For many of Australia’s top women leaders, the toughest decisions are often those that affect other people. Deciding to discontinue a business or sack a senior colleague potentially involves disappointing someone, uprooting their job – and maybe taking away their income in the process.
Lending and investment decisions can be hard, but for Medard, the toughest decisions are always people-related. Medard offered the bank veteran extra career transition support and treated him with humility, sending him off with a special farewell dinner. “I always think about how I would like to be told some bad news or something that is not going my way. It can have a massive impact on them as an individual and on their family.”
“I found changing jobs super tough, because of the people you leave behind and a boss whom I admire and respect so greatly and whom I know I continued to learn from, and I will continue to learn from, even though I don’t work for that boss any more,” Handley says.
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