Advice

Lately, I’ve caught myself saying things like “if only I had more time”, “if only there were more hours in each day”.

So what happens when you are offered a promotion and you feel like you are only just keeping your head above water at work? Oddly enough this is exactly the dilemma that we find affecting an increasing number of executive level mums within the first 12-24 months of returning to work from their maternity leave.

“The important thing is not to stop questioning.

It was a Thursday night at 5pm.

When most people think of bullying, they imagine a nasty, vindictive boss standing over a subordinate, belittling and insulting them in front of the entire office staff.

With personal and professional pressures culminating in the approach to Christmas, November and December are often considered to be overwhelming months.

Imagine your latest business idea is like a new relationship.

With personal and professional pressures culminating in the approach to Christmas, managing the tension between being good busy and overwhelmingly busy becomes more difficult.

There is a lot of discussion in psychology about extrinsic and intrinsic motivators, and most of us tend to look outside of ourselves for validation of what we do.

I am someone who has always known what my next career steps would be, tactically and strategically planning ahead.

Whatever happened as a result of Greg Smith’s open resignation letter to Goldman Sachs? I wrote a blog post about it: ‘143 years to grow a brand – 1 day to destroy’.

Women are not often eager to pitch their skills or ambitions, they still believe that if they sit quietly and work hard, their diligence will be noticed.