Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Josephine* is a solo parent to two boys age 9 and 11. She’s the National HR manager at an engineering company, and we talked about the guilt of work and parenting, getting sidelined after parental […]
I’ve run a lot of government team planning days, and every time I ask people what their major takeaway was. There are some pretty clear themes of what people enjoy and find valuable – here are three of them. 3 things people takeaway from government planning days 1. Being together
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When you’re spending the time and money to bring your whole team together – sometimes that’s an entire Divison of 100 people! – then you need to make sure it has an impact. Here are five tips for making your planning day as effective as possible. 5 tips to improve
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Lots of teams decide to self-facilitate team planning days. And look, it won’t be a complete disaster if you do that, but there are some very clear benefits to having a facilitator in the room with you. How facilitators add value 1. You get to focus on content 2. The
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When you spend the time and money to bring the whole Brand or Division together for a planning day, you want to make sure you’re heading from everyone in the room. Diversity of thought leads to increased performance and innovation, so you need to make space for every person and
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Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Single parenting a 12 year old son, Mia* works full time in a job that supports her need for flexibility to manage the juggle, and says she couldn’t manage without flex! How to pick the
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Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Jackie* is married with a boy and a girl, aged 5 and 6. She works full time in finance, and shared vulnerably about the frustrations of the uneven division of labour at home, and who
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Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Beth* is a mother to two girls aged 9 and 6 and the primary earner in her family. She shares the struggle with changing careers when you’re burnt out and finding meaning amongst the juggle.
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Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. April* has been married almost 20 years and has two children ages 16 and 14. April talks about gender fatigue and the challenges of combining working and parenting, and shares her story of making values-based
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Women at work, beyond the 9 to 5: The untold realities of working mothers’ lives. Karoline* was supposed to be on leave the week we chatted but had spent each day online chasing things from her leadership team to meet a deadline. It’s not the first time she’s worked beyond
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