Posted on 01 January 2009. Tags: Career Management, Health Happiness and Wellbeing, Life Balance, Looking After Yourself, Tips
Renting an apartment should not make you feel exempt from doing your part for the environment and saving yourself some money while you are at it. It may seem like most of the world is talking about “Going Green” but they are talking about their own homes and their cars. What about the apartment dwellers […]
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Posted on 01 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Business, Career Management, Environmental, Health Happiness and Wellbeing
Your customers are asking. Even your employees may be thinking twice about your company’s environmental practices. Meanwhile governments are busy drafting legislation that could seriously affect the way you do business.We all know that going green is what’s best for the planet, but it’s not always easy or cost-effective. However, […]
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Posted on 01 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Flexibility at Work, Life Balance, worklifebalance
New research shows that work-life balance is a key factor in attracting and retaining staff – even more important than salary. Australians have the dubious honour of working the longest hours of any OECD country, with 20 to 25 per cent of people working more than 50 hours each week. Yet research by productivity consultancy […]
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Posted on 01 January 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, leadership, Management and Leadership, Mentoring
7 leaders and the lessons you can learn from their finest hours – click on their faces and listen to the speeches. Faces include: Lincoln speaking at Gettysburg November 19, 1863 Kennedy speaking at Berlin June 26, 1963 Reagan speaking after Challenger January 28, 1986 King speaking at Washington, DC August 28, 1963 Thatcher: […]
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Posted on 01 December 2008. Tags: Business, Career Management, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership, working women
I was chatting the other day with a woman I really admire when she asked me: “why don’t businesswomen just support each other more, like the blokes do?” Now I’m walking on eggshells a bit, because I know this is a very subjective question. In fact I’m probably playing with fire even raising the topic. […]
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Posted on 28 October 2008. Tags: Career Management, Management and Leadership, News, Women in Leadership, working women
Every 2 years the EOWA produces its Census of women in leadership. The recognised benchmark for gender diversity in corporate Australia, the Census is the most quoted statistic in Australia relating to women in the workplace. So let me ask… if you were to assess how well your company has performed in attracting and retaining women […]
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