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 […]
