by Laura Izard | May 17, 2020 | Mindset, Thriving at work
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...
by Laura Izard | Apr 10, 2020 | Mindset, Self Care, Thriving at work
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...
by Laura Izard | May 17, 2019 | Thriving at work
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...
by Laura Izard | May 13, 2019 | Thriving at work, Uncategorized
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...
by Laura Izard | May 7, 2019 | Thriving at work, Uncategorized
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...
by Laura Izard | Mar 29, 2019 | Finding a Job, Thriving at work
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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