Mini Chief: Zaklina Craig, Chief People Officer of Business NSW, on optimising role design for high performance

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This is a special episode only available to our podcast subscribers, which we call The Mini Chief. These are short, sharp highlights from our fabulous guests, where you get a 5 to 10 minute snapshot from their full episode.

This Mini Chief episode features Zaklina Craig, Executive Director - People, Culture & Workplace of Business NSW.

Her full episode is titled Optimising role design for peak performance, managing differences in confidence between men and women, and navigating the decision to fire someone.

You can find the full audio and show notes here:

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Zak is an experienced people, culture and change leader with over 20 years of experience working with businesses in every aspect of their employee lifecycle.

She has led large teams in enabling core business functions delivering systemic and sustainable change. Her niche expertise is integrating strategy, systems, culture and leadership.

Zak commenced her career as a lawyer in private practice and is also degree-qualified in human resources management and industrial relations. She also holds several leadership and coaching qualifications and is one of few practitioners in Australia accredited in Requisite Organisation and Stratified Systems Theory.

She has also held senior roles with Sydney Water and the Australian Retailers Association, and has been the Chief People Officer of Business NSW since February 2022.

In the full episode we talk about:

✅ How to optimise role design, complexity and clarity for higher performance

✅ Overcoming the natural tension between operations, support and commercial teams

✅ The mindset shifts that HR leaders need to have in order to get a seat at the executive table

✅ Moving past confidence barriers for both men and women, and

✅ Hiring and firing people and having difficult coaching conversations.

Stay epic,

Greg

Connecting with Zaklina Craig

You can connect with Zaklina via LinkedIn.

Books and resources

• Dancing with the Divine - by Julie Vance

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