Is Work Your Grind Or Your Play?
I’ve long hated the concept of ‘going to work’. The routine, the set hours and the horror of being told when it was acceptable to take a break, a holiday, didn’t ever sit well with me, even from an early age. As […]
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Nailing A Job Interview – I Swear It’s Easy
Do you remember that Sarina Russo College ad? The one with that ear wormy jingle “How to get that job” with Sarina speaking to camera ‘I was a legal secretary fired nine times!’ Whenever I’m asked to sit on a job interview […]
Chrimirthmus Day
Hands up who has PHD? (Post-holiday depression)? Yeah me too. Gawd the first week back at work is hard to get into isn’t it? I have a good friend who takes the entire month of January off on the grounds that “nothing […]
Try These Tips If You Don’t Want To Be At Work
Time to say goodbye to sleep ins and lazy days, instead its alarm clocks and rushed mornings. Christmas and New Year have come and gone and now it’s the dreaded first day back at work. After what may have been a one […]
How to Survive End Of Year Work Parties
As the festive season is about to start, many organisations and their clients will be hosting events and there isn’t a better time to ensure that you have the skills to represent your organisation effectively and without embarrassment. So let’s start from […]
Juggling A Portfolio Career
The world of work is changing. Many of us now choose to juggle a wide range of positions, part-time roles, consultancies, appointments and partnerships over the traditional 9-5pm job. Phrases like “gig economy” and “portfolio careers” arguably describe the way women have been working for […]
Sticking To Your Values
Last week I spoke at a Women Leading Business Masterclass on the importance of sticking to your values. I was surprised by the number of women who have contacted me to share how difficult they find it to create boundaries around their professional values. […]
Slow Death By Email
The joy of getting a new computer brings with it much joy yet also much angst. I spent the better part of the weekend trying to move a massive email backup file over to my new shiny laptop only to find a […]
Will We Ever Be Able To Retire?
A recent article by Jason Murphy of News.com has crushed the SheBrisbane teams dreams of retiring as it seems it may never happen… “It is becoming more possible that a nice long retirement is not in my future. Like free university education […]
Fear – one of our major stumbling blocks
Last post I shared lessons that I had learnt from activist Sheryl Sandberg –the Chief Operating Officer of Facebook who has written a groundbreaking international bestseller, Lean In – Women, Work and the Will to Lead. I have taken a lot from […]
To kiss or not to kiss? The work pucker-up!
What are your thoughts on corporate kissing? On cheek-kissing colleagues? On ‘x’ sign-offs in work-related emails? Back in my previous life as a solicitor, I never encountered any form of corporate kissing (well, excluding, of course, the lip-on-lip variety that may occur […]
The power of a work reinvention
I got a really cool compliment today. It really reinforced what I am doing is on the money—I am reaching people, connecting my message with their pain points, and providing solutions to help the small businesses I work with stand out. Today […]