Advice

Got a burning question about your career, leadership, balance or how to create the success you are after? Welcome to our new weekly column, where Megan Dalla-Camina will answer a question each week on the things you care about relating to your career and life.

The older I get, the more I value an opportunity to relive the past.

Are you an accomplished professional who hesitates to highlight your achievements, especially when it’s directly connected to asking for a pay rise? You’re not alone – named Tiara Syndrome by the founders of Negotiating Women Inc and discussed by Sheryl Sandberg in her book Lean In, this ‘syndrome’ affects how women negotiate for pay rises in the workplace.

I spent the weekend in Newcastle as a guest of the inaugural Newcastle Writer’s Festival.

I joined the corporate industry in 2006 fresh out of university, ready and excited to begin a career.

When IBM strategy director Megan Dalla-Camina told me she had embarked on a nine-month sabbatical my mind immediately started to wander, and fantasise.

Moods are contagious.

After a long day of meetings and a late flight back from Melbourne last week I was looking forward to the 20-minute drive home from the airport, unwinding to my favourite songs.

Last week I celebrated my 50th birthday and reflected on all the reasons I have to be grateful to so many people who’ve enriched my life.

I lost a friend on the weekend.

Negotiating is an art that very few people bother to master these days.

I finally found time on the weekend to start reading Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean In.