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 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 15, 2022 | Career Clarity
Looking back on your school days, what are your memories of those who taught you? Which were the teachers who encouraged and expected the best from you? If you watched the documentary about former footballer and sporting pundit Ian Wright, you can’t fail to have...
by Anne Wilson | Oct 26, 2021 | Career Confidence & Visibility
What’s the scariest film you’ve ever seen? Without a doubt mine is ‘Halloween.’ What was frightening wasn’t what you saw- it was what you didn’t see and what you couldn’t control. Afterwards, I insisted my rather more...
