Developing Women! Want to have better relationships? What small steps can we take today? Welcome to another edition of Keep Developing! With Christmas and New Year, one of the things that struck me was how well we communicate with each other. In Springboard we talk a lot about relating with…
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How do you get successful? Heard the latest stats? Success consists of a series of little daily victories What is success to you? Having a great career? A loving family? Pots of money? A close circle of friends? Time to give generously to others? Success is different for each of…
We don’t usually get into chain emails but this is one of those that has a fair message to send You walk across the car park, unlock your car and get inside. Then you lock all your doors, start the engine and shift into REVERSE, and you look into the…
Think of ASIO and you think spooks. Secret agents. People deep undercover. Almost one thousand of them. Well, not all the employees at ASIO are spies. 43% of them, however, are women. And, interestingly, 26% of their senior officers are female. With a planned growth for their workforce it seems…
That’s a headline we’d like to see. For one woman, it is now a reality. Teresa Gattung is head of Telecom NZ and is among the Top 7 Highest Paid CEO’s in Australia/NZ. She is the only woman in that select group. With a disciplined focus on transforming the company…
Ever said something like … “I want a life!” … “I’ll go mad if I don’t do something about this!” … “Give me a break!” … “If I only had time to connect with people again!” You’ve worked hard to get where you are, have what you have and yet…
It’s getting close to Christmas. Is that exciting or uncomfortable? Not sure? Sometimes in the madness of this time of year you need a little distraction. We found just the thing. If you are needing a bit of inspiration or just want to amuse others, try out this word puzzle!…
by Sophie Hahn and Anne Litwin Published in Managing in the Age of Change: Essential Skills to Manage Today’s Workforce, Roger A. Ritvo, Anne Litwin, and Lee Butler, editors, Burr Ridge, Illinois: IRWIN Professional Publishing, 1995. Most everyone would agree with the assertion that boys and girls are socialized differently…
Article By Fiona Carruthers Less than one third of women who earn under $30,000 a year receive paid maternity leave, according to a nationwide survey conducted by a Sydney University team. But the figure rises to almost two thirds of women in the $50,000 to $70,000 pay bracket, contradicting the…
by Cindy Cavenagh ‘I had done something engineers aren’t supposed to do. I had got pregnant. I was in the wrong and therefore had to change my life-style to suit.’ This was a problem Elizabeth Taylor faced when she became pregnant with her first child eleven years ago. She is…
Article By Adele Horin Women in the prime of life rather than men in their 60s are the key to tackling Australia’s looming labour shortage and retirement income crisis, a study shows. It says Australian women, aged 25-54, are the biggest source of underutilised labour, with large numbers out of…
Making the jump from one job area to another… By Jenny Daisley from the Springboard Consultancy, a personal development consultancy. There was a time when people took a job and that was their life’s work – so once a barmaid always a barmaid, once a computer programmer always a computer…