Posted on 28 October 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Courses and Conferences, Employers, Management and Leadership
Mariette Rupps-Donnelly is a great supporter of sphinxx and has drawn our attention to a very important health initiative called R U OK?Day. You may (or may not) be aware that stress and depression are the largest contributors to lost productivity in Australia, and that absenteeism plus stress and depression-related presenteeism are directly costing employers […]
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Posted on 28 October 2009. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Management and Leadership, Negotiation, pay equity, Salary and remuneration
Have you ever had the feeling someone is pulling the wool over your eyes? Or that you’re not quite getting a fair deal? My good friend Ruth was telling me recently about a time when she felt just like this. And it related to something I’m sure is dear to all of us… a […]
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Posted on 20 October 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Flexibility at Work, Management and Leadership, working women
Last Thursday was one of those crazy days (good-crazy, thank goodness and not silly-crazy!) that seem to happen only when all the stars and moons are aligned… It started with an interview on ABC radio, and ended with a conversation with Carla Zampatti. And I learned a lot from both about selling yourself, and making […]
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Posted on 07 October 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Management and Leadership, Women in Leadership, working women
Yesterday I was at the airport rushing between cities when I felt that dehydration setting in… so I stopped at one of those mega vending machines to quickly buy a drink. Can you believe there were literally dozens of different drink bottles on offer and – as the final calls were being announced – I […]
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Posted on 07 October 2009. Tags: Career Management, Employers, Management and Leadership, Mentoring, Offers
I’m so excited to be attending the Palladium Advanced Practices Forum with Dr David Norton this week in Sydney. Yes, I realise how geeky that sounds… but the truth is I’ve been a huge fan of the Balanced Scorecard approach to performance management for over a decade now! As an accountant and business consultant I’ve […]
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Posted on 29 September 2009. Tags: Best Practices, Career Management, Management and Leadership, Mentoring
As many of you know I’ve been a mentor in the Lucy Mentoring Program this year and last week I attended the closing event for the program for 2009. Lucy is a great program put together by the NSW Office For Women in partnership with a number of universities and to be honest, I was […]
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