Confidence
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7 tips to sound confident
Are you as confident as you’d like to be? No? Would you like to give the impression you’re more confident than you really are? Of course! Who wouldn’t? Confidence is something that you either have or don’t. But even...
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How to make multicultural teams work
Today, 1 of every 5 workers in the world is part of a distributed team,* and a lot of them come from different cultures. Managers must face new challenges when dealing with people from different cultures; how...
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Why women’s mentoring programs are still relevant
There has been a considerable shift in the focus on mentoring, and especially on mentoring for women. And there have also been questions raised – by men – about why women should have specialised mentoring programs. When the National...
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5 tips on how to impress
Years of experience in dealing with the dog-eat-dog world of politics, have given The Hon Kristina Keneally — the first female Premier of NSW Parliament — a good grounding in how to make an impact. At the Women, Management...
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Barriers of cultural change to include women
Taking on a cultural change to include more women in an organisation that is predominantly male and has a reputation for blocking women, Brigadier Gavan Reynolds AM of the Australian Army shared his tips on how they managed to...
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The best ways to present data with visualization
Have you ever been in a business meeting or scrolled through an article and got completely lost in the data that was presented? Or maybe you lost interest due to the monotonous and dull numbers that displayed across the...
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3 ways your personal brand affects your business
As business and career women, it seems like we have a thousand things to be concerned about. While taking care of the marketing, advertising, finances or the overall operations of our business, it is easy to become preoccupied with...
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The power of ‘We’ leadership
Many years ago, when I attended a leadership training course, the trainer told me that because I was an Asian, female and relatively short, I needed to work harder to deliver leadership presence – just like he himself was...
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How to build the right virtual team
It is becoming more common for businesses to be functioning more as a virtual office or team with flexible hours than the standard ‘bricks and mortar’ office location and 9am-5pm hours. Technology allows us all to work with people...
