Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Check into the Career Confidence Spa!

Summer’s over and Autumn is on its way – perfect timing to take a break and assess what’s working and what needs some attention in your career. Maybe you’re thinking of returning to work after a break or maybe you’re ready to ramp up your career now the kids are a bit older. Whatever your situation you can bet there are some self-limiting beliefs lurking around and some inner critics…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Are you suffering from Imposter syndrome?

Simone was a successful Marketing Manager, well respected and high achieving – she had outperformed her counterparts on a number of occasions, and yet, she was constantly waiting to be found out, and lived in terror of the day when someone was going to walk into her office and ask what on earth she thought she was doing in such a high powered job. And it’s not just those in senior positions…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Want a better work-life balance? Try going slow...

The thorny issue of work-life balance never seems to go away, particularly for working parents who are often so under pressure to stretch their time available to fit everything in that they can feel like an elastic band about to snap! Interestingly I was listening to a radio programme recently where 3 people were seeking help to slow their lives down. The volunteers had noticed how they never…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

Spring Clean your CV!

Spring is here at last! Feeling a surge of energy as a result of the sunny days and brighter evenings you might think about decluttering the house and detoxing your diet in readiness for the Summer but what about your career? Whether you are thinking of returning to work after having a break or wanting to change jobs now is the time to direct a bit of energy to your CV and job search. Firstly, you…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

How to build an effective Personal Brand

Today we live in a consumer society where we are bombarded with product placement and brand identity everywhere we turn. Overwhelmed by choice, we opt for brands that speak to some part of us with a clear message, be it a promise of youth, organic credentials, good value, effectiveness or something else. The same can be said to apply for gaining success in our careers – we need to have a clear…
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Mumpreneurs & Mums at work

30 minutes to a new Career!

Do you find yourself always putting things off? Meaning to get down to certain tasks, and then finding that a week, a month, or even a year has passed and you still haven’t started them? How does that make you feel? – irritated? guilty? a failure? Let’s just say you desperately want to get a new job. (You desperately wanted to get a new job at the beginning of 2012 as well…
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