Advice

All industries need a balance of women and men working alongside each other, as both genders bring different viewpoints and opinions to the table.

You don’t always need professional management training or structured graduate programs to progressively climb the career ladder.

Georgina Armour and Sarah Willmott,

One of the best pieces of career advice Mark Jones received from a boss was the one-liner: “If you are to be promoted to the next level, show us you can operate at that level.

Asking for a promotion is right up there as one of life’s more difficult conversations.

Mapping out a personal five-year career plan is a redundant approach, says Carole Brown, National President of the Career Development Association of Australia.

Upward bullying is a problem women in management are particularly vulnerable to, according to recent research, especially in organisations where resources are tight and employee workloads high.

We’ve all heard about toxic bosses unleashing hell on their workers but a number of recent studies show managers are increasingly complaining about being bullied by their own staff – and usually, it’s women who are the most vulnerable.

It is a time of significant reform – changes to the Sex Discrimination Act; the introduction of Paid Parental Leave and the new ASX guidelines that make it mandatory for ASX200 companies to report on the gender ratio of senior executives and company directors, release a diversity policy and set gender targets.

It might sometimes seem like slow progress, but measures across such categories as the increased participation of women in the workforce and the numbers of women opening their own businesses show that things are improving for women in the world of business.

The game of leadership has changed.

For young women who are extremely driven and motivated to be successful in a meaningful, world-changing kind of way, the journey to said fulfilling career can be extremely confusing.