11. Building a High Performing Team and Helping Them Achieve Their Goals With Loren Hickey

Building Doors with Lauren Karan

Loren Hickey is the Pre-Contracts Manager for John Holland’s Infrastructure and Major Project Divisions. With degrees in Civil Engineering, Marketing and Public Relations, Loren has close to 15 years of experience in the construction industry and has recently commenced her Master of Construction Law at the University of Melbourne.

She is the Deputy Chair of the Infrastructure Association of Queensland, member of the Board of Professional Engineers of Queensland and a member of the National Association of Women in Construction.

Loren believes evaluating your skills gap and acquiring new skills to close that gap and even surrounding yourself with people who have complementary skill sets can boost your career.

Loren says the fundamentals of building a great team requires finding people who are committed to doing the work and gathering people with complementary skill sets. And as managers, being empathetic to the team's needs, promoting open two way communication and willing to have the difficult conversations will help earn their teams’ trust.

Visualising her future self guides her decision making process.

Her opinion is that a confident mindset is not sustainable. Therefore, to make the most of, she believes in taking action instantly when you do feel confident.

You can connect with Loren Hickey on LinkedIn.

About your host:

Lauren Karan, Director and Founder of Karan & Co.

With over a decade of experience as a recruiter and development coach, Lauren Karan found that her priorities rapidly changed after the birth of her two children. In 2022 she founded Karan & Co flipping the out-dated recruitment model with a focus on retention through career coaching and development.

Lauren believes that If opportunity doesn't knock, you have to build a door - and it's this same philosophy that inspired her to create the Building Doors podcast.

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