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Hosted by Cathal Quinlan · business · EN · 93 episodes
The Better At Work podcast is your new best friend at work. It’s packed with honest, practical advice and science-backed techniques from a diverse range of guests to help you achieve betterness in your work, and life. Better At Work is for everyone striving to be better and feel better. Whether you’re ready to take your career to new heights, or battling with the daily grind, your host Cathal Quinlan is here to help. By drawing on insights from leading psychologists, neuroscientists and performance experts, and Cathal sharing his own successes and mistakes as a leader, the podcast delivers proven strategies, tools and science-backed techniques to help you achieve betterness in your working life, one day at a time, because when work is better, life is better. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color
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Signup to Generate a PitchThe Better At Work podcast is your new best friend at work. It’s packed with honest, practical advice and science-backed techniques from a diverse range of guests to help you achieve betterness in your work, and life. Better At Work is for everyone striving to be better and feel better.
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan is hosted by Cathal Quinlan. The show has published 93 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "A change in career, offices that inspire work, and more guest takeaways | Listener Questions" (20 October 2026, 27 minutes), "Why Employees Don’t Want to Come Back to the Office | Dan Moscrop | Season 5" (13 October 2026, 69 minutes), and "What to Do When a Team Member Keeps Letting You Down | Listener Questions" (6 October 2026, 34 minutes).
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 93 episodes.
Booking probability for Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan is 34%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan's contact route on record: verified email.
The strongest fits for Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan are Business & Management Consulting. Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan has a business audience.
Cathal Quinlan hosts Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan, a business show with 93 episodes published.
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Episode #6
How do you get into product management in a bank? Cathal Quinlan and Annette Sloan answer Jake's question about finding a way into the role. Annette explains what product managers actually do, then shares three...
Episode #5
What makes an office worth coming back to? As businesses push for a return to the office, the bigger question is what people are coming back to. Somewhere that helps them work better, or somewhere to sit on video calls...
Episode #4
A team member keeps missing commitments. There is always a reason, the rest of the team is frustrated, and their manager is running out of patience. What should happen next? Cathal Quinlan and Annette Sloan work through...
Episode #3
A good conversation changes what you say next. Neil Mullarkey joins Cathal Quinlan to explore what improvisation can teach us about listening, leadership and working together. Neil is a comedian, communication trainer...
Episode #2
Saying yes to one thing leaves less time for something else. So how do you decide what deserves your attention? In the first Listener Questions episode of Season 5, Cathal Quinlan and Annette Sloan revisit Caroline...
Episode #1
Season 5 starts with the guest who started it all. Caroline Webb is back, tackling a question every overloaded leader needs to answer: what should you stop doing yourself? Caroline joined Better at Work for our very...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
Toughing it out is not resilience. Chronic pressure without recovery drains people, and the ones praised for coping are often closest to the edge. In this Better Moment, organisational psychologist Tasha Eurich takes...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
Conflict at work is not simply a choice between charging in and avoiding it. In this four-and-a-half-minute Better Moment, *Smart Conflict* authors Alice Driscoll and Louise van Haarst focus on two useful forces...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
Hope at work is not optimism. It is a goal worth reaching, more than one credible route forward and enough agency to move. In this seven-minute Better Moment, burnout researcher and workplace culture strategist Jennifer...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
A good job is not the same for everyone. Laura Gassner Otting gives us four dials for working out whether a role actually fits: calling, connection, contribution and control. Calling is the force that pulls you forward...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
The loudest predictions about AI count the jobs it might destroy. Russell Beck says that is the wrong unit of analysis. Technology is very good at removing the scarce skill inside a job. Russell's example is a naval...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
Most companies can show you a plan. Far fewer can explain the choices underneath it. In this Better Moment, Roger Martin strips strategy back to what it actually is: what you do, not what you say. He explains why a list...
Better At Work with Cathal Quinlan
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Episode #35
Cathal and Annette close out season four together in London, in person for once. The four ideas from 30+ episodes that actually changed how they work: Laura Gassner Otting's four Cs of a fulfilling career, Zach Mercurio...
Episode #34
The final listener questions episode of Better at Work, Season 4. This week is Cathal and Annette closing out the season's questions before next week's wrap, with the stories that stuck with them and a look ahead to...
Episode #33
Roger Martin is the world's number one management thinker, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, and strategy advisor to the CEOs of P&G, Lego, Ford and American Express. He is our final guest of the year, and...
Episode #32
Roger Martin is the world's number one management thinker, former dean of the Rotman School of Management, and strategy advisor to the CEOs of P&G, Lego, Ford and American Express. He is our final guest of the year, and...
Episode #31
Annette is in London! She and Cathal are finally in the same studio for this listener questions episode. First up, Annette's three takeaways from Cathal's conversation with behavioural scientist Leidy Klotz, author of...
Episode #30
<p>Most workplaces obsess over paint colours, open-plan vs closed offices, and how many days people should be back at their desks. They skip the only question that actually matters.</p><br><p>This week Cathal sits down...
Episode #29
<p>Q&A episode: Annette synthesises Wendy Smith's both/and thinking, Cathal reflects on Bob Geldof's recent speech on empathy in leadership, and we answer Lou's question on preparing for her first competency-based...
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