We’re asking women to take our ambitions survey. Can you spare five minutes to share your ambitions for the next two years? Two years ago we asked women across Australia to share their ambitions…
Leadership
Six tips for having tough conversations
Think of the last presentation you gave that touched on some tough conversations or topics. Did you manage to fine-tune your message to avoid confusion? And how did you overcome the challenges of comm…
Thanks for your email: How to shake-up your out-of-office message
It’s time to break the yawn-inducing sameness of email auto-responders, writes Dr Amantha Imber. Here’s what you can do if taking time out over the Christmas break. Most ‘out-of-office’ a…
From Texas to Alaska, to the Middle East, Africa & Australia: Kimberly Walpot’s global career in engineering
From Texas to Alaska, to the Middle East and Africa, and then finally to Perth. Kimberly Walpot is an engineer who has travelled to different corners of the world to try something new and progress a g…
Ideas for shifting the status quo on the lack of cultural diversity in leadership
It’s common knowledge that the boardrooms and upper leadership circles of major businesses in Australia are a far cry from gender equal. But there’s another insidious problem that often goes unrecogni…
Women don’t need to ‘act like men at work’, but the opposite may help
“Women need to act more like men at work”. It’s a line oft repeated and therefore implicitly believed by many; and at face value it’s plain to see why. Men are still dominant i…
The jobs of the future and the skills needed to nab them
Right now, small business owners and the leaders of large organisations are questioning the roles they currently lead in order to try and keep their businesses afloat, especially in the lead up to Chr…
