Coca-Cola Amatil's Group Managing Director Alison Watkins on why doing great work isn't enough to get ahead in your career

<p>My guest&nbsp;today&nbsp;is Alison Watkins. Alison joined Coca-Cola Amatil as Group Managing Director in March 2014. Prior to joining Coca-Cola Amatil Alison was the CEO of agribusiness GrainCorp and of Berri, the market leader in Australian juice, and she was also the Managing Director of Regional Banking at ANZ.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alison also spent 10 years at McKinsey &amp; Company and became a partner of the firm before moving to ANZ as Group General Manager Strategy.&nbsp;&nbsp;Alison has been a non-executive director of ANZ, Woolworths and the Just Group.</p><p><br></p><p>We cover:</p><ul><li>How the way she works has changed dramatically since COVID</li><li>Her strategy for delivering bad news</li><li>The best and worst career advice she has been given</li><li>Deciding when to take on board negative feedback, and when not to</li><li>Alison’s approach to influencing others - and why doing good work isn’t enough to get ahead in your career</li><li>And much more.</li></ul><p><br></p><p>Connect with Alison on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/alison-watkins-0b375b82/?originalSubdomain=au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>Visit&nbsp;<a href="https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.amanthaimber.com/podcast</a>&nbsp;for full show notes from all episodes.</p><p><br></p><p>Get in touch at&nbsp;<a href="mailto:amantha@inventium.com.au" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">amantha@inventium.com.au</a></p><p><br></p><p>If you are looking for more tips to improve the way you work, I write&nbsp;a&nbsp;short monthly newsletter that contains three cool things that I have discovered that help me work better, which range from interesting research findings through to gadgets I am loving. You can sign up for that at&nbsp;<a href="http://howiwork.co/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://howiwork.co</a></p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank'