Posted on 11 November 2011. Tags: Family Motherhood and Home
This week is National Adoption Awareness Week (NAAW) and I must send a huuuuuuge thank you to Karen James at Women in Focus for inviting me to fundraising breakfast for NAAW yesterday… Not just any breakfast, of course, but I had the chance to share a table and breakfast with Deborrah-Lee Furness. Deborrah-lee is the […]
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Posted on 11 November 2011. Tags: Events, leadership
If you haven’t already booked yet to see George Clooney and all his mates in Sydney on 12th December, time and spaces are running out! New pricing and seats have just been released so you can now book via The Growth Faculty: Premium Seating: $1100 Premium Seating – Sphinxx Member Rate – $880 (Use promo […]
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Posted on 03 November 2011. Tags: Events, Networking
Well it’s been a while… but I’m finally back in Melbourne over the next couple of weeks speaking first on The Female Leadership Journey at CPA Australia networking luncheon next week, and the week after as well at the Executive Assistants Network conference. I’d love to connect face to face with as many of my […]
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Posted on 03 November 2011. Tags: Entrepreneurial Activities, Negotiation, worklifebalance
We need to talk about Qantas. Or at least, everywhere I go, the women I meet are talking about their reaction to the Qantas dispute and what they’re going to do about it. I flew to Adelaide last week for a speaking engagement with CPA Australia (hello to all the lovely ladies from SA who […]
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Posted on 03 November 2011. Tags: Career Management, Communication Skills, Courses and Conferences, Employers, Gender Balance, News
HR firm Randstad recently conducted a survey of approximately 400 Australian workers and found that only 40% of the male respondents say their employers, when looking for new managers, take into account the current number of men and women in higher management positions, compared to 25% of female respondents. Randstad chief executive Fred van der […]
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Posted on 03 November 2011. Tags: Career Management, Communication Skills, Entrepreneurial Activities, Women in Leadership, working women
This article by Nellie Akalp tells us what we already know about women entrepreurs: they are thriving in the new economy and this is why: The growth in women-owned businesses can partly be attributed to sheer necessity: increasingly, families must rely on a dual-income household and many women find escape constraints of paid employment by […]
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