Last week I was on a friendtoring call – you know, one of those phone calls you get from a friend who rings to ask your professional opinion (like the term? My friend David Lee came up with it and gifted it to me when he told me to stop mentoring for free and to turn […]
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7 leadership lessons from a fabulous role model
Posted on 24 September 2008.
Last week members of our group mentoring program Take the Lead were treated to perhaps the most content rich session we’ve had in the 12 months the program has been running: Avril Henry sharing leadership tips from her 30 year career spanning line management to senior executive roles to becoming one of the world’s foremost experts on […]
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The power and the passion of leading
Posted on 15 September 2008.
‘Power’ is an interesting concept. For me it conjures up many connotations, positive and negative. But mostly negative. I’m not sure why that is; perhaps it’s the many abuses of power I observed in my 15 years working in finance and consulting. One thing I know from the women’s forums I run is that most […]
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7 success strategies for advancing and retaining women
Posted on 19 August 2008.
Last week I chaired a conference in Melbourne on advancing and retaining women in firm. Amongst the line up of speakers were members of the accounting, legal, engineering, automotive and banking sector, all of whom spoke about the programs and initiatives they are running to assist in promoting diversity and developing their female talent. The […]
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Learning to network with purpose
Posted on 18 July 2008.
I had a call this week from Lynette Palmen at Women’s Network Australia. Nothing unusual in itself… Lynette was phoning because a potential client had mentioned they had a relationship with sphinxx, and she was calling to for a reference. Or is it unusual? Lynette is what I’d call a master networker. She lives the […]
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Women in combat… but who’s the enemy?
Posted on 14 July 2008.
Currently, women cannot be employed in jobs that have the potential to expose them to direct combat, including field artillery, infantry, clearance divers and defence guards. But female employees are permitted to serve on military operations supporting ADF combat elements. And the Rudd Government is looking at further relaxing these restrictions. Personally I thought that most combat these […]
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