The following captures the thoughts of Anne Garvan on a range of career and professional development topics, as recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. It is targeted for leaders and aspiring leaders with the information best used in conjunction with discussions with a person’s manager/supervisor. Anne’s biography is shown at the […]
Tips on developing an early morning work-out to build a more productive day
How much more productive and energetic do we feel when we start the day with some exercise? I’m not a morning person but whenever I avoid the repeated use of the saviour button (usually labelled as snooze button) to fit in some early exercise, the day seems to go very differently, with so much more […]
Insights to Managing Gen Y
Some people wonder what all the fuss is about when discussions start on the workplace difficulties of managing Gen Y team members. Yet some baby boomer leaders speak as if they had aliens in their team, so little do they understand about what makes our 20’s and early 30 year olds ‘tick’. While there are […]
How to develop your career without leaving your employer
When I joined Woolworths straight from University in the late 70’s, they were like most large organisations – you were basically employed for life and provided with a well-defined career path for as long as you kept performing. Those days have long since disappeared. It is now widely accepted that for career progression you need […]
The best apps and tools to make work life easier
In my continuing attempt to regulate the day-to-day routine tasks, I’m always a sucker for those articles which list the latest & best apps, tools and websites. So when Daily Tekk writes about getting organised with “The 100 Best Tools, Websites, Apps and More” I’m in hook, line and sinker. Especially when I only know […]
With so much online comment, how do you protect your name?
A person’s career can be negatively impacted if either their own name or their employer’s name is unfavourably mentioned in cyberspace. Most experts suggest the first step in ‘reputation management’ comes with monitoring your name online and there are now a host of tools to make this task easy. To keep tabs on what might […]
A ‘thank you’ to teachers and parents
Today has been very emotional for me and I want to say ‘thank you’ to express the pleasure, pride and pain that I feel by writing this open letter to….well, I don’t know who? For 22 years as a parent with children in Catholic schools, I’ve been involved in countless meetings, school visits, teacher interviews, […]
Leadership Insights: a conversation with Dr Leoni Degenhardt
The following captures the thoughts of Dr Leoni Degenhardt on a range of career progression and development matters, as recorded during a question and answer session with Trak Search. It is targeted for leaders and aspiring leaders with the information best used in conjunction with discussions with a person’s manager/supervisor. Leoni’s biography is shown at […]
Actively helping your top performers to leave to build your own team!!??
During a period when leaders & managers are scrambling for good people to join their team, it can seem counter-intuitive to actively assist your top performers to find opportunities elsewhere. We all might have a sense that this is the ‘right thing to do’ but many are seduced by the concept of making their own […]
How women unintentionally stunt their careers
This is obviously a generalisation, however in my 18 years of recruiting for senior roles, a recurring pattern is as follows: a male will apply for a role if they meet, say, 4 of the 6 selection criteria and do so with the confidence they can perform in the position; a female, by comparison, won’t […]
