Healthy High Performance - Sheila Walsh (From the Archives)

About this episode

Sheila Walsh discusses the importance of organizational clarity and healthy high-performance in remote work environments.

"We're really focused on the core fundamentals of organisational clarity, communicating that clarity, over-communicating that clarity, minimising confusion and politics. And when that's present, then you have the good stuff. And for me, the good stuff is that you're creating that environment for people to flourish and thrive." Sheila Walsh. Sheila Walsh takes me through the tumultuous year in a tech company in the travel sector. We talk about keeping teams engaged when everyone is remote working and about the lack of spontaneity in a remote environment. Sheila talks about what it is like to work in a people-centric organisation that is driven by the Leadership Team and cascaded down - the LT have a team coach and no chance to get comfortable or complacent. She shares that CarTrawler has upgraded its high-performance focus to 'healthy high-performance'. We talk about finding meaning and purpose, rabbit-holes, pixie-dust, growth mindset, learning and more. Sheila Walsh was Chief People Officer at CarTrawler at the time of recording. A hands-on and motivated HR professional, Sheila has a broad range of experience across many sectors including; software, telco, publishing, healthcare…

People in this episode

Host: Susan Ni Chriodain

Guest: Sheila Walsh

Topics covered

• organizational clarity
• remote work
• high performance
• employee engagement
• leadership

Keywords

• organizational clarity
• remote working
• employee engagement
• high-performance
• leadership

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CarTrawler

Places: University College Cork

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