If you are running your own business – or thinking of starting one – you will qualify for the special sphinxx discount of $100 on business coaching packages with sphinxx SheEO Jen Dalitz – until 8th March only. Would you benefit from a business advisor to bounce ideas off? Want a professional voice of reason to […]
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$100 off business support coaching packages for women running or starting their own business – til March 8
Posted on 16 February 2011.
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Childcare and Careers – do they mix?
Posted on 15 February 2011.
At a networking event recently a businessman mentioned that his wife – a highly educated, highly experienced professional – had left her role in an accounting firm after their children were born because “after the cost of childcare it was hardly worth her while to continue to work”. Their children are now in school and […]
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“A full-time career? Why should I be doing this to myself?” Why close to a million women choose not to participate in the workforce – a guest post by Ingrid Messner
Posted on 02 February 2011.
Do these ‘ladies of leisure’ pose a threat to Australia’s productivity? This is what a recent headline in The Australian newspaper indicated. The blame seems to be on us women – if only we were to choose to work, the danger of the ticking population time-bomb will be so much smaller. I’m not sure that […]
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Emotion at work: displaying emotional investment pays dividends for leaders
Posted on 14 January 2011.
Like most Australians I’ve been glued to my TV (and twitter and internet) this week watching the human tragedy and devastation of the Queensland floods unfold. I never imagined in my wildest dreams seeing so much water where dry land should be. And I never imagined I’d become such an ardent admirer of Queensland Premier […]
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One child equals a “nominal family”? Women choosing to “marry up” in preference to establishing a career? When women attack women everyone loses
Posted on 11 January 2011.
Earlier this week I wrote about the fact that everyone loses when women leave their careers. The same is true when women attack women: everyone loses. I’ve seen first hand the vengeance of stay at home mums whoattack women for using childcare. Then there’s the Ladder Kickers who get to the top and refuse to support the […]
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Why are women are still leaving top organisations and jobs in their droves… and why don’t business leaders stop it from happening?
Posted on 10 January 2011.
Back in 2005, just a couple of years after completing my MBA, my classmate Bianca sent a copy of Off-Ramps and On-Ramps (a Harvard Business Review article by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and Carolyn Buck Luce) to all the women in our cohort. The article which highlights the large numbers of highly qualified women dropping out of mainstream careers was […]
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