by Anne Wilson | Sep 15, 2022 | Career Confidence & Visibility, Women & Work
This week, a guest blog post courtesy of published author, leadership coach and keynote speaker Carla Miller. As a women’s leadership coach, I’m a big fan of taking control of your career. You can’t leave your career prospects and development in the hands of your...
by Anne Wilson | Aug 2, 2022 | Women & Work
In Improving your career prospects with one magic word, I explored some of the risks of saying ‘yes’ to non-promotable tasks or NPTs. In How to make sure your time is well-spent at work I outlined how to audit where your time goes so you can see whether...
by Anne Wilson | Jul 26, 2022 | Women & Work
In a previous post, How to improve your career with one magic word, I explored the challenges of women taking on more than their fair share of non-promotable tasks (NTPs). Investing too much time in these activities can negatively impact on your career progression....
by Anne Wilson | Jul 19, 2022 | Women & Work
Female employees are conditioned to be agreeable, to avoid conflict and to be helpful. That is why, when it comes to requests to undertake additional work tasks it can be hard to refuse. It feels uncomfortable and counter-intuitive when we are so often used to saying...
by Anne Wilson | May 17, 2022 | Career Confidence & Visibility, Women & Work
Universities love a meeting – I cannot even begin to count the hours I have spent in them. They are so routinised that most of us just turn up, inured to the hours they take of our time and treat them as business-as-usual. Yet meetings provide great...
by Anne Wilson | Mar 29, 2022 | Women & Work
What progress is your employing organisation making in terms of gender equality? Now companies are required to publish this information publicly, the data should be easy enough to find. For most, it’s a resounding ‘could do better.’ If employers want...
