Ways to effectively network and influence by Averil Leimon
Averil Leimon gives you a few tips to be more influential and network more effectively. As explained in the video below, these are critical to women’s career success.
Blackberries or Crème de Mure? iPhone or iSpy?
It is the holiday season and the debate continues. Should you or should you not check your e-mails while you are on holiday? Aren’t you meant to be ‘getting away from it all’? The Mail on line ran a story about managers returning even more stressed from holiday...
10 Lessons on Surviving Change
We often forget that ‘good’ change – the type we choose for ourselves can add to stress levels just as much as changes perceived as ‘bad’. Moving house, getting married, having children are usually on the good list – activities we have consciously chosen. Yet they...
3 tips for being more confident by Averil Leimon
Averil Leimon gives 3 helpful tips to help women be more confident with themselves and advance in their careers. Watch the video below in order to push your confidence to the next level.
Avoiding Groupthink – How do you do it? – The Leadership Minute
The problem with groupthink is that you don’t know it’s happening! Yet this widespread phenomenon is highly damaging in business or politics, as we have seen recently. Is there a way to overcome this? – François shares two tips in the latest installment of our...
François introduces the Leadership Minute video series
We are delighted to introduce a new series of quick leadership and strategy tips for our clients and friends. As we come across interesting ideas, we will share them with you in a quick and practical way. To get us started: let’s talk about Iterative strategy...
Career women: It takes a village to raise a child
A very personal story by Averil Leimon They say ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ yet many modern women seem to assume almost total responsibility for the survival and well-being of their infants with a secondary role somewhere for the father. I meet women all...
Is confidence a skill, an attribute like charisma? Or a combination of self-belief, tools and practice?
It seems that confidence is a word used in increasing aspects of everyday life. We are all acquainted with the term consumer confidence and its importance in our fragile economy; the notion that if consumers believe in a product, brand or company/organisation that...
“ The Good Wife” – How traditional family patterns are changing for the modern woman in Asia
We know that the ongoing struggle for female equality in the UK is alive and kicking – just look at the success of the Women’s Equality Party in the recent elections, or the current petition which the UK Government will now debate as to whether companies should force...
Blonde bombshell or working mother of two? – Benefits and pitfalls of stereotyping
Many moons ago the Glasgow Herald, headlined me as ‘tempting fate’ – when reporting that a company had hired ‘the services of an attractive 32-year old industrial psychologist in order to “stress-proof” the top management team’… Stereotyping works as a quick way of...