In the business world, there is nothing wrong with a healthy level of competitiveness, to ensure you’re getting the best out of your employees. Especially when you’ve got your eye on another business competitor, nothing is more motivating then a definite target to beat. But this article argues that ranking your employees, and deliberately encouraging Read More

I've been saying it for years, and I’ve written in my book Little Wins for Working Women that what modern-day women with successful careers need to do is to get themselves a wife. Or someone to do the cooking, the cleaning, the laundry and all the mundane tasks that eat up your time, stress you out and mean that you can’t focus as much attention on your career as you would like to. Read More

When was the last time you spend a day focused just on you and what you want to achieve from work and life? If you're in Brisbane next Wednesday 1st December, I'd love to see you at the Ascend career development day where you'll have the chance to do just that.  Here's what one of our recent participants had to say about how much she loved the program: Read More

Meek and mild is not how I’d describe Lynn Ralph, board performance specialist with Cameron Ralph and non-executive director of the Sydney Swans and The Sydney Institute.  In past lives she was also a successful investment manager and ran the Sydney Dance Company.  And those in attendance at Ascend in Sydney on Friday would agree: this is a woman who pulls no punches, makes no apologies for her successful career and yet doesn’t take herself too seriously.   Read More

When was the last time you spend a day focused just on you and what you want to achieve from work and life? If you're in Melbourne next Friday 19th November, I'd love to see you at the Ascend career development day where you'll have the chance to do just that.  Here's what one of our recent participants had to say about how much she loved the program: Read More

A new study into the flexibility practices of the accounting sector has been undertaken to determine why this profession - in which women have long dominated at the graduate level - is still failing to attain significant female representation at partnership ranks. The study was undertaken by the New Zealand Ministry for Women and reviewed workplace practices of twelve public practice accounting firms using some form of flexibility, ranging in size from four staff to 900. Read More

I think sometimes we get so much advice, so many insiders tips and tricks for how to get that job that we get over stimulated and ruin our focus. This is a recognised phenomenon in elite athlete training – if your focusing on kicking perfectly and swift arm movements entering the water expertly and keeping your overall body tension perfect, chances are the actual swimming won’t be outstanding. Read More

Pretty much every opportunity worth pursuing won’t be failure proof. And if you’re ready to try something brave, or are reeling from a cherished idea gone wrong, then this article is for you.  How can you assess the risk of making mistakes with new ideas before you launch the project, and how can you learn best from those mistakes, and communicate these to risk-wary executives? This article explores these questions. Read More

For our readers in Adelaide... now is your last chance to register for our final Ascend career development day for 2010 - which is all about career develoment and the things women can do to position themselves for career advancement and success in 2011.  Would you, your colleagues or team members benefit from attending?  Or is there someone you could forward this email to, who may benefit from spending a day reflecting and refocusing on their career success? Read More

I’m a big fan of the Professionelle blog, and this article is no exception to their high standard of career advice. Here they address a question from a business analyst in management consulting about to step into a lead analyst role. She is the only female in the team, and has less experience in the industry then the two analysts she’ll be leading. Read More