Download eBook #2 comprising five articles including:

1. Plan To Relax
2. Personal Branding
3. Earning What You Deserve
4. Effective Social Networking
5. Boots: On Or Off?
6. you Won't Know Yourself... Or Will You?
7. Let Yourself Soar

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With the Christmas/Holiday/New Year period hurtling towards us it's all too easy to get caught up in the busy-ness and speed. For years I'd say to myself, "I'll stop over Christmas," and I would, except my 'stopping' would often involve eating and drinking too much and rounds of social busy-ness, cramming in "must-do" visits with family and friends.

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Every great company has a branding strategy before they launch their products into the marketplace. What about you? Do you have a personal branding strategy when you start off your career, look for your next promotion, apply for a new job or transition into a new profession?

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There is no doubt that the data shows that women in Australia do not receive the same remuneration as men performing the same role.  In fact that difference today is about 17% and research shows this often begins in the first work year.  I am not suggesting that earning more and more money is a recipe for happiness but I do believe that all people should be paid at the level of their job and this should not vary by gender.

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We all know that we should be maximising the potential of social networks, but how many of us are actually doing it?

More and more people are making decisions and getting information from conversations taking place on social networking sites, online tools that help people connect with others who share similar interests, or with those who are interested in exploring new interests and activities.

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In every day activity we need to make judgment calls on how we deal with specific situations. Sometimes we need to be assertive and at other times a soft approach can work best.

Whether the context of our interaction with others is in person during meetings, over the phone or via email we need to be able to influence others and still build sound relationships. This applies whether we are dealing with a work colleague, an external client or someone from our industry network.

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Sitting at my team meeting I hear, "Claudia, you could do a spiel on being a mum and how it feels to have your last ones off to school next year and your journey getting there', said my very supportive boss, Di Ryall (and no she didn't make me put that in about her...I'm lucky it's actually true...but as she would say 'this isn't about her it's about ME...and yes it's about you'. That is, the women in this world who like me have ridden this rollercoaster of having children.

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Close your eyes for a moment. Picture yourself high in the sky, floating directionally but effortlessly in a hot air balloon. Consider what you are hearing? Silence......... and the occasional blast of hot air from the burners into the envelope of the balloon that are keeping you airborne. Think of this if you will as a metaphor for life. Imagine if most of the time you were cocooned in a blanket of quietness, calmness, and peace with only periodic interference from what you needed to keep you safe, alive, satisfied and always moving. How would you feel and what could you achieve?

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Download eBook #1 comprising six articles including:

1. Creating Opportunities For Positive Outcomes In Tough Times
2. The Importance Of Resiliency In Your Career
3. Using Technology To Support Flexibility
4. When The Going Gets Tough. Diversity Really Matters!
5. Living The Life You Want - Not The One You Fall Into
6. Your Guide To Work Life Balance

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Take a minute to consider each of these statements:

• Diverse teams are more innovative
• Diverse teams see challenges from more angles
• Diverse teams come up with a broader range of ideas
• Diverse teams develop better implementation plans
• Diverse teams see barriers earlier

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Creating Opportunities For Positive Outcomes In Tough Times

You may have observed some interesting responses and reactions in your colleagues, friends, the media and our commercial and political leaders over the last six months to the current economic downturn. Has it been all Doom and Gloom? Overt Optimism? Head in the Sand?

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The Importance Of Resiliency To Your Career

Why do some people suffer extreme adversity in their professional career and not stu mble? And others never come out of the negative state of mind after some setbacks? Why is resiliency important to our career? And why it is especially more relevant than ever?

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Your Guide To Work Life Balance

The only constant today is change. With global competition, economic uncertainty, constant restructuring, changing culture and demographics just to name a few. Our world continues to accelerate in scientific and technological breakthroughs. Even the perception of world safety has changed due to terrorist events.

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Using Technology to Support Flexibility

Often when people think about flexible work practices their focus automatically moves to working part-time or in a job share arrangement. Sometimes we think about working remotely (usually meaning "from home"). Mostly when people think about the responsibility for the success of such an arrangement the onus is placed squarely on the shoulders of the "flexible" worker (with basic IT support to enable remote access and (hopefully) moral support from their direct Manager). Usually the "flexible" worker is doing the same work in the same team in the same way as it was done before that worker was given permission to work "flexibly" ... except reduced workload on a pro-rata basis and/or they will now be doing it at home instead of with their team mates in the office.

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It's become very fashionable to call these 'changing times'. Having been in the workforce for over twenty years now (ouch!), I can't remember times that haven't been called 'changing ones'! Can you imagine proudly exclaiming: 'We live in stagnant times,"???

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