Strategy Starters For New Entrepreneurs Strategy can sometimes be a marmite word for new business owners. Some entrepreneurs love nothing more than creating their business plan of action whereas others can feel intimidated by the idea and prefer to focus on their product or services and allow things to take off organically. But while product…
Success Habits and How To Nail Them
I wanted to talk to you today about success habits, as forming positive habits is a key component of being able to make positive and lasting change – in your career, business and beyond. Often clients come to me with bad habits that they’re well aware of. They know what’s not working and often what…
Building Resilience When Life Throws You A Plot Twist
Every so often life throws us a plot twist that can send us reeling. Whether it’s a work challenge, a relationship obstacle, or unexpected financial difficulties, when things don’t go the way we planned, or when we’re thrown off balance by the unexpected, it’s often the case that we start to doubt ourselves. It’s at…
Minimize your Minimizing
I’m sorry, but……… I just wanted to follow up……..I won’t take too much of your time……..you are invited to a short session…………. let’s have a quick call……maybe this sounds silly……it might not be important but ……you may have already thought of this…… How often do you catch yourself starting a sentence with these kinds of…
A curable disease-the disease to please
Many women start out in their early careers as very enthusiastic contributors. Saying yes to assignments, raising their hand to volunteer for projects that others may not want to take on, accepting assignments from their boss even in cases where it is clear to them that there is little or no benefit to themselves by…
4 weeks in the life of the Women@Work and TAG Career Accelerator Program High achieving women often get to a point in their career where they have a niggling feeling that they want more for themselves. They know deep down that they are capable of more and yet something is holding them back. Sometimes, it…
How Women Rise – Leveraging Relationships (Habit #4)
Professional women naturally have strong networks now it is time to pull in the favors One of the greatest strengths of women in all settings and communities is their ability to build rapport with people. Rapport is the foundation of trust within a relationship, this naturally leads to the conclusion that it is highly probable…
How Women Rise – Overvaluing Expertise (Habit #3)
As we continue with the insightful overview of the “How Women Rise” habits from the award-winning author Sally Helgesen, this month we look at Overvaluing Expertise and redefining our expertise… Redefine what we do What is the expertise? The Cambridge Dictionary defines it as a high level of knowledge or skill. When do you reach…
Join Zayed University in Fall 2020
The Choice of Excellence Zayed University has a distinguished reputation as one of UAE’s leading public universities to educate future leaders and prepare them for success in their chosen careers. Since its inception in 1998, the emphasis at Zayed University has always been on challenging, guiding, and supporting students to be the very best that…
Get Unstuck: Activate Your Career
The recent world events have caused a lot of people to rethink their idea of what the perfect career is. Industries will change greatly due to layoffs, redundancies, and people’s habits changing in reaction to having to stay at home, etc. In addition, the XYZ generations are thankfully not tied to the concept of following…