Posted on 01 November 2010. Tags: Career Management, Management and Leadership
I’m a big fan of the Professionelle blog, and this article is no exception to their high standard of career advice. Here they address a question from a business analyst in management consulting about to step into a lead analyst role. She is the only female in the team, and has less experience in the […]
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Posted on 29 October 2010. Tags: Career Management, Health Happiness and Wellbeing
When I ask people what they do, most say, “I am electrician”, I am a cleaner” or “I am and accountant”. Many people identify themselves with their profession or their job title. But there is a lot more to a job than that. Research has shown that the way we feel about what we do, […]
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Posted on 28 October 2010. Tags: Ascend Development Days, Career Management
If you were planning to join us for the final Ascend development day for the year in Sydney, I’m sorry but you’ve left it too late – this quarter is fully booked now in Sydney. The good news is we still have a few places left in our other three cities: Adelaide – 10th November […]
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Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Diversity, Good Guys
John Colvin, CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors is really leading the ranks of good guys and showing his commitment to gender diversity on boards with the announcement of a new Board Diversity Scholarship Program by the AICD. Under the program, the AICD together with the Australian Government Office for Women will award […]
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Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Career Management, Mentoring
I have received a number of requests over the past couple of weeks for career coaches (as opposed to life coaches) and executive mentors from women in senior management and executive roles in corporates and professional services, in Queensland, Sydney and Melbourne. If you have any recommendations to share in this regard can you please […]
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Posted on 27 October 2010. Tags: Career Management, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership, Women on boards
Recently I was chatting with Robyn Watts who many of you will recognise from our Take the Lead series: Robyn has held various CEO and executive roles in the media sector and is now building a second career with a portfolio of board positions. The purpose of Robyn’s call was to discuss her candidacy for […]
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