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Four Planning Tips to Help Change Your Life
Prioritisation and having only a doable number of tasks help you take action and feel progress and accomplishment. Ask yourself, "What are the three most important things I could do today that would either make a big difference or move me forward significantly?" Then do them!
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The power of AND
Have you ever stopped to consider the transformative power of the word "and"? This tiny conjunction can shift perspectives, open up new possibilities and help women realize their full potential as leaders.
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7 work from home tips to help gain a new perspective
Tired, stressed and sick of your own house? These 7 actionable work from home tips come from the responses shared with us as part of our recent LH Agenda x Naked Wines competition. They were so great, we wanted to share them with everyone else!
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5 Strategies for Handling Difficult Work Conversations
During your career as a manager, you may encounter sensitive situations with colleagues and employees. Often these problems don't resolve themselves on their own and employees may be upset, confused and the list of potential situations you may face is endless. When difficult situations arise it often falls to the manager to have the hard conversation with their direct report. No one told me this when I became a manager and I have had to teach myself this skill, apply knowledge gleaned from others, and consolidate what I have learnt on the job. It's my hope that with this post I'll leave you with tips you can use the next time you find yourself in a "what the heck do I do with this?" type of dilemma.
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Is a master's degree the right move for your career?
Studying takes a great amount of time and commitment, though if you're pursuing something that you're passionate about it can be a great way to expand your knowledge. If you're sitting on the fence as to whether it's the right time, here are some considerations to help you with your decision making.
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Building an Interior Design Empire
I recently had the honour of connecting with a powerful leader and an incredibly creative business owner and interior design expert, Allison Crawford. Allison is an interior designer and founder of Hotelette, an award-winning collection of luxury short-term rentals in Austin, Nashville and Dallas. In this interview Allison shares with us about a bachelorette trip that inspired her business, why we do not need to have a huge budget to be effective in our marketing, and why the interior design doesn't have to be a "fussy experience".
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Improving productivity - time-savers that can start now!
Over the many years since Leaders in Heels began, we have worked with hundreds of contributors, watched our six-figure community prosper and collaborated with so many talented experts. These experiences have taught us many things, including how different people hone their productivity. We've pooled some of this knowledge, including some hidden gems from super busy women, to create this guide for improving productivity.
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3 Ways to Be an Effective, Velvet-Hammer Leader
When it comes to leadership and management style there are two categories most people fall into. Those are sledgehammer or velvet hammer leaders.
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10 tips from women working in male-dominated industries
We're proud to see so many women taking charge in industries that have previously been considered male-dominated. Hoping to dig a little deeper into this, Rajapack, a packaging company (themselves founded by two women in 1954), spoke to ten women currently working in male-dominated environments. Focussing on inspirational women from the construction, packaging, engineering and manufacturing industries, they wanted to find out what advice these women would have for others looking to get into. Check out these experiences from women working in male-dominated industries.
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