After I spoke with Accenture’s men and women at International Women’s Day, I had many requests to share two concepts. The River which I commenced my talk with and A Time to Risk which I concluded it with. Enjoy the contemplation. The River. I want you to imagine you are standing at the edge of…
When I first heard the term side hustle, I automatically thought of the 1930’s with a shady gangster hustling people for money. I was wrong. A side hustle today is a trendy new term referring to a job you can work in addition to your more permanent job. To have a “side hustle” or in…
Independent Contractors. Should they be a part of your inclusion strategy? Like many young girls I remember being seduced by the wonderous world of acting and dreaming about glamourous clothes and handsome young men sweeping me off my feet. For a moment there I was wrapped up in this romantic Cinderella like delusion. The bubble…
Technology allows many people, particularly white-collar workers to work from anywhere at any time. The ideal work model being promoted is people blending both their work and private lives. They can choose when and how they work in a 24/7 period, just as long as they get the work done. It is promoted as both…
I want you to imagine you are in a meeting about how your business can reduce costs and one person says ‘Let’s waterfall ‘. You have never heard the term before so you look to the person who used the term and asks them to explain. What is Waterfalling? There is an uncomfortable moment where…
Have you ever wanted to give someone a genuine compliment; perhaps a stranger on the street or on a train about something they were wearing or something kind you observed them doing, but have stopped yourself for whatever reason and then the moment had passed? In contrast, have you ever felt quietly delighted when a…
A process to help facilitate discussion and align business responsibilities with future workforce planning. “Over the past 25 years, 1 in 10 men who lost their job due to big technological shifts never worked again. Today 4 out of 10 unskilled men don’t participate in the workforce.” Economist Andrew Charlton This statistic is an unintended…
The world of work is changing and this is happening more rapidly than most of us can possibly imagine. For some, it is about not having time to take notice, for others the prospects are too alarming or irrelevant. For many, they simply don’t have access to the information. As of June 2017, 49{01332a80e2e652688e18927fa9a6162580960d47bc08263a3993439d666dcd52} of…
The defining question many journalists ask politicians on any campaign trail is; ‘Do your policies pass the pub test?’ If a politician went to any pub in Australia, from inner city Melbourne to the back of Bourke, and they asked the people in that pub, this simple question—would Australian’s prefer reliable or less reliable employment—what…
Liz, a friend of mine, is a single mother, who works hard to pay a mortgage and manage the upbringing and education of two teenage boys. To do this she held three diverse casual jobs; a shop assistant, house cleaner and aged carer. As a qualified pastry chef, she also made cakes for special occasions,…