Do you ever…‘Fake it till you make it?’ I started my career in Accountancy feeling like the underdog. My quiet nature, resistance to large groups and to asking questions (especially publicly) meant I was not standing out. After feeling overlooked for some time, I decided I need to try out the classic ‘Fake it…etc’ approach. […]
Who are your cheerleaders? Who lifts you when you fall? Who stands for you and beside you and champions you? For the vast majority of my career, I worked for and alongside male leaders and I was fortunate enough to have some great ones.However, for a large chunk of my career as a Finance Director, […]
“That’s not right. Why did you do that?!” Have you ever received feedback in this manner at work? Some people, on receiving that, wouldn’t flinch. Perhaps they hear it often and they have been de-sensitised as ‘that’s just the way people talk to each other around here’. Most of us have heard this kind of […]
