by Anne Wilson | Jun 17, 2024 | Career Confidence
The ability to say ‘no’ is a critical skill, especially when it comes to requests that risk derailing your career progression. This skill is further examined in “The No Club: Putting a Stop to Women’s Dead-End Work.” The Flattery Trap and Gendered Expectations Being...
by Anne Wilson | Jan 15, 2024 | Career Confidence
In my role as a trainer and mentor for a number of women’s development programmes, it’s important that I’m able to model the behaviours I’m encouraging other women to develop. I can’t hide behind excuses such as “it’s too...
by Anne Wilson | Aug 21, 2023 | Career Confidence
Have you ever felt as though you had to please everyone in order to be liked and respected? Do you worry about what others think of you and your decisions? Do you avoid conflict and confrontation at all costs? If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these...
by Anne Wilson | Aug 2, 2022 | Gender Equality
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 19, 2022 | Gender Equality
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...
