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Chat GPT: How to ask CLEAR prompts to get what you need
How can you optimise Chat GPT? By ensuring that you are precise as well as detailed in what you are asking from it.
How to Stop Being a People-Pleaser and Boost Your Career
Women are conditioned to be people-pleasers. However the need to be liked does not equate to being universally popular. Learning to let go of the need to please is both liberating and can also be career-enhancing.
What will you need to succeed in a new role?
Congratulations! You got the promotion. How do you now establish yourself in your new role?
How to improve team communication by understanding people
How well do you truly know your colleagues? If you could understand them better, and they you, wouldn’t that make for a harmonious team? There is a simple way to achieve this.
Explore your career:10 FREE questionnaires
These free online questionnaires can provide useful insights into what matters to you most in a career as well as what you have to offer.
Moving On Up:13 tips on how to succeed in the interview
How to succeed in interviews? Staff who have recently secured promotions share their expertise and tips.
Moving On Up:10 tips on how to ace the application form
Over the years, I have seen many dismal quality applications. Take heed of the advice shared by women who have been successful in securing job offers. It will significantly increase your chances of making the shortlist.
Moving On Up:10 Top Tips on how to prepare
Preparation is one aspect of the application process that many fail to do well. Here, women who have been successful in securing promotions share their tips.
Great leadership principles that result in change
How do you distil key management and leadership principles into practical actions? Stephen Covey achieves this in 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.
Chat GPT: How to ask useful careers questions
With carefully worded prompts, Chat GPT can deliver useful careers information and significantly improve documents such as CVs. While it’s always important to fact check, AI can be a significant time-saver.
Sorry! Why women need to stop apologising
Women often prefix sentences with the word ‘sorry.’ The tendency to create harmony is a primal instinct. However within the workplace, over-apologising does not serve women well.
Why we remain so far from workplace equity
While employers fail to address the key needs and concerns of their female staff, they are losing talented employees. To create a genuinely equitable workplace employers must do more.