Dear No Glass Ceiling Here: Internal career paths help create clarity for employees about how to get from here to there — and creating career paths for women leaders is not necessarily any different than creating career paths for men leaders. But there are certain behaviors that can make it more difficult for women to
Is unconscious bias affecting the way colleagues react to you in the workplace? Photograph: OJO Images Ltd/Alamy Author: Kelly Long Have you ever been in a meeting and realised that you are the only person being excluded from the conversation? Did it cross your mind that far from being because you don’t have anything
Chief executives earn average of $3 million There were only 15 women in the list of 300 top-paid CEOs but they outperformed their male peers when it came to delivering for shareholders. When ranked by total shareholder return (TSR), women CEOs took out three of the top 10 positions while taking home pay packets that
Alison Watkins AUTHOR: CATHERINE FOX If we want to see women taking on more leadership jobs in our largest organisations then Alison Watkins, CEO of Coca-Cola Amatil, believes it’s high time we got serious. “We need a much more robust discussion about the kind of society we want,” she says, “and we
by Dr. Vesna Grubacevic With the festive season fast approaching, it is important to reduce our stress levels so that we can truly enjoy the festivities and maximise our personal and professional success for the rest of the year. A key to doing this is to learn how to master your thinking so
Last week I was afforded an enormous privilege by way of the Layne Beachley Aim For The Stars Foundation. That privilege? Meeting former Prime Minister, author, champion of equity, university professor, and perhaps most of all, a person content in their own skin – and owning their own space – Julia Gillard. It was clearly
Author - Amanda Blesing, The Ambition Revolution We’ve all seen plenty of articles about what it is that women do wrong. Sad to say, I’ve certainly contributed my fair share in that space. Why? Because they get higher read rates from both men and women alike. The fact remains that when there is gender diversity in the leadership team
You have probably heard the expression “Fake it ‘til you make it”. Some people apply this advice to faking confidence until you have it. My view, why fake confidence when you can have it! Here are 4 reasons why faking it is the least preferred solution: 1. Do You Believe It? Firstly, understand that
Embrace diversity, breed new thinking, collaborate, allow the crazy ideas to breathe and create those often insane divergent moments because this is the only way we are ever going to create the future we dream of right here and now before it becomes a present that passes us by. It’s almost as if the repeat
For those of us who are of a particular vintage, there is an iconic scene in the movie Pretty Woman, where a character says these words: ‘Welcome to Hollywood… what’s your dream?’ So many of us have a dream, or a plan for our future reality; a vision of what our lives and businesses should
