#WORDUP 2016

December 21st, 2015|Categories: Gender Diversity, Inspiration, Leadership Skills, News, Women in Leadership|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

“As names have power, words have power. Words can light fires in the minds of men. Words can wring tears from the hardest hearts.” – Patrick Rothfuss, The Name Of The Wind A wonderful jumble and organisation of letters creates a single word. A single word; one that can create power, strength of focus, encapsulate

Failure To Engage Is Engaging With Failure

October 26th, 2015|Categories: Inspiration, Leadership Skills, Women in Leadership|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Connecting, collaborating, communicating. All great words – but they do require us to use another ‘c’ word – courage. They require us to be brave, to step up and drive change through our influential actions and conversations. It still surprises me how many of us put networking in the box which has been labelled in

Get on (the) board

May 27th, 2014|Categories: Inspiration, Leadership Skills|Tags: , , |

Women who would like to be offered a seat on a company board need to start building business relationships much earlier in their careers, rather than trying to find sponsors when they are about to try to make the jump. A new survey of 57 female non-executive directors (appointed since 2010) finds that one-third wished

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