Posted on 19 October 2015. Tags: Career Management, Family Motherhood and Home, Management and Leadership, Parenting, Research
Are you following @manwhohasitall on twitter? I’ve concluded this satirical (and scarily familiar) account of “top tips for men juggling a successful career and fatherhood” could only be authored by a woman. The basis of my assumption? Career men wouldn’t think about spending time on social media sharing the ins and outs of their work […]
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Posted on 18 September 2015. Tags: Career Management, Family Motherhood and Home, Good Guys, Women in Leadership
A friend of mine recently shared that his female boss had – in a team meeting – commended the men on her team for leaning in on the home and family fronts. It was in response to an article quoting Elizabeth Broderick, Australia’s Sex Discrimination Commissioner who had received a text message from her son […]
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Posted on 13 May 2015. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Family Motherhood and Home, pay equity, Salary and remuneration
The Federal budget released last night introduces changes to Paid Parental Leave to prevent “double dipping” of employees with access to both employer and government funded PPL. But all is not lost, this is how employers AND employees can continue to access both: Get creative. As Shakespeare said, “A rose by any other name would […]
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Posted on 08 May 2015. Tags: Career Management, Family Motherhood and Home, Friday_Freebie, leadership, Life Balance, Management and Leadership, Mentoring, Offers, Parenting, Women in Leadership, worklifebalance
Wallowing this week in the colds and flu that descended on our little household, it’s been hard to stop thinking about Sheryl Sandberg and her family. The tragic and sudden death of Sheryl’s husband, Dave, last weekend, is unbelievable. I had the privilege and great joy to spend a morning with Sheryl at BlogHer a […]
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Posted on 29 March 2015. Tags: Career Management, Flexibility at Work, leadership, working women
My favorite thing to do on a Monday morning before I get onto my to-do list is to review the TED Talks of the week… and I just had to share this one, by Dame Stephanie Shirley – an octogenarian software developer, child refugee, startup success and philanthropist. What a fantastic story! Dame Stephanie – […]
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Posted on 29 September 2014. Tags: Bias & stereotypes, Career Management, leadership, Supporting women worldwide, Women in Leadership
For the past three years I’ve been contemplating my next career move: what direction should I take, on which path, for what end? I’ve tied myself in knots trying to figure it out. And I could never have imagined my a-ha moment would come from an innocent conversation between two five-year-old boys. Yet in that […]
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