Advice

More than anything else when it comes to improving our confidence, research suggests that taking action is the most important step.

Have you ever faced a very aggressive colleague or customer? It’s bad enough on the phone but very scary face-to-face.

Our increasing desire for greater flexibility, freedom and control in our work lives is driving us towards a freelance economy, with predictions that one in three people will be working online, independently, by 2020.

How well do people in your team or business work together to achieve your collective goals? Do managers work with one another to identify priorities and coordinate their team’s efforts? Do team members think about the consequences of their actions on staff in other areas of your business, before they act? Where does your organisations culture sit on a spectrum between being collaborative and silo driven? An organisation’s ability to thrive depends greatly on people being willing and able to work well together.

This week, I faced my demons.

Networking and making new connections is a great way to grow your business if you do it right which is why I wrote a book called Start with Hello.

This is a pretty big question so you might want to strap yourself in: What is your purpose? Or asked another way: Why are you here? Or another: Why do you get up and do what you do every day? For most of us, these questions are not easily answered.

Me: “I help women feel powerful and priceless so they can ask for the money they want to earn throughout their careers.

Imagine you’re taking a well-deserved break.

Ask yourself this question: Is your personal brand taking you to the places you want to go in your career? How do people see you at work? Perhaps you have a reputation as the problem solver, the organizer or the deal maker – but is it serving you well? One of the most important questions you can ask when building your personal brand and looking at what’s next for your career, is what do you want to be known for? 
 Personal branding expert, William Arruda explains that your personal brand is not your job title.

Want a low cost, low risk way to improve your gender diversity numbers dramatically? Learn how to harness the power of a restructure within your organisation to retain and promote female talent.

During the course of my work, I meet a lot of smaller business operators.