Own your uniqueness
You have something unique – and immensely valuable – to bring to your workplace. Even as a graduate starting out with huge learning ahead of them, the energy and passion that you bring to your team will determine how much your current environment will add to your personal growth. Yes, you spent four (or more) […]
Inside the minds of first generation professionals
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Who Are You Working For?
As the champagne bubbles from the New Year celebrations fade into memory, something else is rising on the inside of you as you face the work year ahead. What is that feeling? Is it anticipation? Dread? Anxiety? Excitement? Pay close attention to those feelings as you make your way back to the office. Were you […]
Finding The Fun In Your Work
We’re all tempted to press the snooze button one too many times on days we feel like we can’t face the office. Work is challenging, it can be rewarding – but it’s not going to be something that makes you feel like you’re floating on clouds all day playing the harp. (Unless you’re a harpist […]
Defeating The Workplace Passive Aggressor
We spend a third of our lives sleeping, a third of our lives working and the last third is left for doing everything else! This life ratio means that we spend more time with our work colleagues than we do with anyone else in our lives. If you’ve been dreading the office over the past […]
Five Signs You’re An Intrapreneurial Employee
For most of my working life, I could never understand when my colleagues would expect the company (the nebulous spirit we all refer to when we use that term) to make their lives easier or give them meaning and happiness. It took me a while to discover, after some entrepreneurial training, that what I was […]