Posted on 09 December 2009. Tags: Family Motherhood and Home
A great friend of sphinxx Sarah Drysdale has just launched an online kids boutique, cornflowerblue, and I can personally tell you how great my son Ethan looks in his new cornflowerblue stripy play suit, as you can see below! What’s best about cornflowerblue is it’s not just about styling kids, the brand is also about […]
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Posted on 25 November 2009. Tags: Best Practices, childcare, Family Motherhood and Home, Life Balance
OK this is not normally a heading you’d expect to find on the sphinxx site… but it’s a terrific project that my good friend Scott Middleton has been a contributor to. The Perfect Gift for a Man – 30 Stories about Reinventing Manhood is a book which aims to get men talking about their feelings and […]
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Posted on 17 November 2009. Tags: Community, Family Motherhood and Home, Supporting women worldwide, working women
Maureen Frank, founder of Emberin and a truly sphinxx leader, has penned an article in this month’s Dynamic Business Magazine about Why women can have it all! Frank reports that with paid parental leave due to start in 2011, businesses need to help their female staff plan for their time off and help them come […]
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Posted on 07 October 2009. Tags: childcare, Community, Family Motherhood and Home, Parenting
If you have kids or members of your team are parents, this new website may be of interest. The Thinking Parents Forum is a new community dedicated to inspiring the next generation of leaders and trail blazers – by inspiring the parents and opening discussions on all manner of topics related to young people, children and […]
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Posted on 09 September 2009. Tags: Family Motherhood and Home, Gender Balance, Life Balance, Management and Leadership
A study of 288 employed American adults published in the Journal of Occupational and Organizational Psychology^ found that more women than men felt they did not meet their own high standards either at work or at home. 38% of women and 24% of men said their job performance did not meet their own standards. 30% […]
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Posted on 17 August 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Family Motherhood and Home, Parenting, working women
I recently wrote an article on tips for working parents that was published in The Age and on Essential Baby… I set out 7 things that have helped me to maintain my sanity and my career post baby… well they definitely helped with the career part anyway!! Click here to view the full article. And if you’re […]
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