If you’re a working parent of school-aged children right now your weekly routine has turned on its head. My kitchen is my meeting room, I can be looking at boiling peas on the hob or my boss’s head. I teach my children about prepositions whilst doing my...
Our need to feel for external validation: being affirmed by others and the world/environment that we live in may currently feel under threat. I write in March 2020 (when the UK is in lockdown due to Covid – 19). The very nature of this pandemic means that...
Why do we even talk about how to be female at work and still excel in 2019? No-one is searching for web content about “thriving at work as a man in 2019”. Maybe we will one day see “thriving at work after extended parental leave as a man in 2019″. For women...
Many of us are afraid to be our integrated selves, and be “fully female” at work in the belief it might hold you back. Recently in honour of International Womens Day, some very talented women in my “real job” talked candidly in a webinar. They...
I asked podcast guest, accomplished editor and journalist, mum and friend Jess Spiring to download some wisdom for us on how to get promoted, still be a present mum and not get chored to death below. It really is my dream to have clever, diligent working parents (who...
You can be smart about combatting ageism in your job search. Be encouraged, the workforce is getting older and there is a move to promote age diversity in the market. That said, it is taking a while for most organisations to catch up with a wider cultural shift. Below...
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