How to Prepare an Elevator Speech

The theme of building relationships and being visible has surfaced across several coaching conversations, workshops and events over the past few weeks. Lois Frankel recommends spending five percent of your work time, networking and building relationships. That’s two hours of a 40-hour work week.   One of the tools helpful in this regard is usingContinueContinue reading “How to Prepare an Elevator Speech”

Another Small Win Against the Gender Pay Gap

With the passing of the Equal Pay Amendment Bill on 23 July 2020 New Zealanders working in female-dense professions will have a clearer pathway for pay equity. It is another step towards addressing systemic sex-based pay undervaluation in female-dense occupations. Today’s “going market rate” for employing people in traditionally female-dense occupations may not be aContinueContinue reading “Another Small Win Against the Gender Pay Gap”

Why Work? Part 3: Its Good For You!

Working is good for you too. I left this to last, to Part 3 of 3. Do you do that? Think of others first? Leave yourself to last? That’s what nice girls do. I didn’t mean to. I didn’t notice until now. This is one unconscious bias that regularly trips me up. Kindness, generosity, andContinueContinue reading “Why Work? Part 3: Its Good For You!”