10 people skills to make you indispensable

10 people skills to make you indispensable

Technical skills- how to make, fix or improve things are the baseline of any organisation. You need a mechanic to know how to fix your car. You need a financial expert to calculate company payroll. You need medically trained staff to diagnose and treat illnesses....
7 ways to empower your female staff

7 ways to empower your female staff

In an earlier post I explored what employers can do to empower their female employees. Being a woman in the workplace can be challenging and uncomfortable, especially where women are in a minority and structurally the system and the implicit rules and biases –...
How to get more women into leadership roles

How to get more women into leadership roles

Why aren’t more women in leadership roles and what can be done to address this? I recently came across research which investigated the reasons so few women have achieved leadership roles in 33 of the US’s largest multilateral institutions. Just over 12% of...
Make the most of your unique qualities

Make the most of your unique qualities

You possess a range of skills and strengths which when combined, make you truly unique. And yet many women in particular, tend to be modest about these qualities.  That’s not helpful when it comes to applying for jobs or promotion. Girls are often brought up not...