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Communication is the Key to Getting Along with Co-Workers

Let’s face it: If you don’t get along with your co-workers, your 9 to 5 can be a waking nightmare. No matter how much you love your job, the relationship with your co-workers can make or break you day. No matter if you love your fellow employees or hate them, effective communication is the key...
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Women who work too much

In her bestselling book Women Who Love Too Much, therapist Robin Norwood writes for those of us who equate being in love with being in pain and who are looking for a way to break a cycle of destructive relationships with inappropriate men. It’s occurred to me, however, that many of us could fall into...
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In the Press: The Recruiter.co.uk

Founder of women’s networking site We Are The City, City businesswoman and entrepreneur Vanessa Vallely is launching a new job board on 1 October. Careers City, aimed at increasing the visibility of job opportunities for women, will look to “level the playing field and stop hemorrhaging women from the workforce”, according to Vallely. Read the...
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When businesses are not structured for growth, they become very expensive hobbies

It is very disconcerting that with so many businesses being launched every year, very few are structured to thrive, grow and prosper. Never before has there been so much help available for business; the internet is heaving with ‘expert’ advice from success strategies for launching and growing a business, to social media and sales secrets,...
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It’s time to level the playing field

WeAreTheCity will be launching a new Job Board focusing on female talent- Careers City. – Launches 01.10.2012 After 4 years of extensive growth in which we have become the preferred personal/professional website for over 70,000 women across London and beyond, it’s the right time to  launch a new recruitment platform. With the combined support of...
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Are your meetings wasting your time?

It is an important part of our working lives to meet, plan and agree. In fact, with the increase in virtual and flexible working it is even more important to maintain some form of human contact with our fellow team members using all the digital knitting and technology available to us. Paradoxically, if meetings are...
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Workplace woes….and the benefits of sharing

Do you remember your first interview? I still laugh when I remember mine.  Memories of my interrogator, Mr Johnson, glaring at me across the desk, whilst I wrung my hands in desperation; trying to remember the guidelines we’d be given at college. “Be punctual” they’d said.  “Ask questions” they’d said.  “And don’t forget to make...
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THE TRUTH ABOUT MARKETING TO WOMEN

Men and women are different and businesses need to market to them differently… Question: Are women different from men? Answer: Yes. Do they behave differently when they are buying? Yes. And if they are different, shouldn’t we be marketing to them in a different way? Yes. Enough of this equality and sexism nonsense, women are...
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everywoman's Navigator

The Navigator is a free practical guide that helps women plan their future in business, and includes advice, tips, self-diagnostic tools, research and thought leadership. Brought to you by everywomanClub (a membership group of influential women in business), the Navigator is for women, who want to reach their full potential within organisations or achieve success...
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Who says you need 'to get' organised?

Every time I prepare for a talk on Time Management I face the same face expressions. Women you are fully prepared for another lecture on how they have to ‘get organised’ & manage it all by themselves because every time manager would advise so and because we live under the influence of media – the...
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