Career Women Climbing the Ladder - Is it Really Worthwhile?

When we look at the information now available about women and heart disease we have to ask if climbing the career ladder is really worthwhile. Or is it more the way we do it?

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Career Development Is Also About "Managing Up"

Every worthwhile leadership or management course today has a component on how to influence - managers, clients, potential clients, industry power brokers.

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Work-Life Balance in the 24-7 Workplace of Laptops, Blackberries and Mobile Phones - Part 1

We are all familiar with the old adage: "No one on their deathbed wishes they had spent more time at the office." Yet in these fast-moving times of change and complexity that is exactly what we do - spend more time at the office as our workday knows no boundaries.

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Work-Life Balance in the 24-7 Workplace of Laptops, Blackberries and Mobile Phones - Part 2

So what are we talking about when we talk about work/life balance?

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Developing Stillness and Quiet in Our Busy Lives - A Dynamic Soft Skill

Many people have found the answer to this in disciplines like, for example, meditation, yoga and tai chi. Trying these by doing some short courses with experienced teachers is highly recommended. This give us a sense of whether it is something that resonates with us.

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Quiet Time and Stillness Can Be Empowering

We live in an age when "doing" is prized more than "being". We live frantically busy lives where time is our most precious commodity. The thing most of us yearn for is work/life balance.

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Being Focussed and Present With Our Clients

Many of us have work days that are full of a great diversity of activity.

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Work On Yourself, Not Just On The Work - Bring Your Soft Skills Into Play!

Working on yourself calls on your soft skills; working on the work usually means bringing your hard technical skills into play.

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The Three Greatest Challenges For Managers - People, People, People

The hardest thing any of us will ever do is manage another person. It can be our new born child or our testosterone charged adolescent son or our spouse or mother-in-law or the next door neighbour. In the workplace, it is our team members.

 

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Book Review Managing Change in the Workplace - A Practical Guide by Leslie Allan Reviewed by Maree Harris. PhD.

This is why Leslie Allan's book is such a gift to executives, leaders, managers and supervisors who want to initiate a change process in their organizations. It's a complete guide and true to its subtitle a very practical guide.

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