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How to deal with your peer stealing your idea? #happyemployees #resolvingissues #stealingideas askshivani behaviours blog speakingup Nov 21, 2022

One way happy employees turn unhappy is when they generate a great idea, openly share it and then a peer takes that idea and presents it as their own.

If you are that employee, here are 3 steps to...

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Boost your confidence in 7 days askshivani blog career leadership leadership engineers women Apr 19, 2021

Confidence is a state, a belief.  Saying you have low or high confidence in everything  is simply not true. There are some areas we have high confidence in and other areas we...

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When are you retiring? Me never! askshivani blog career leadership leadership engineers life planning retire women Apr 12, 2021

Reinventing at least every 10 years

 The right retirement age

Growing up, I heard many adults say, they could not wait to retire when they were 55 years of age.  This changed to 60, then 65 and now 70.  Many people...

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Managing dispute between staff blog Mar 10, 2021

It is pretty stressful when we have two staff that are both valuable in your business and they are ‘at each other’. They are both are stuck in their views and they are not moving...

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Balance is good and bad. blog Feb 03, 2021

Balance is often assumed and described as work-life balance. Images on the internet are of someone walking a tightrope or multi-tasking. (Side note - if you multi task, you are probably not good at...

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Women are still being sexually harassed in the workplace. blog Mar 20, 2019

Last week I was catching up with a girlfriend of mine where our updates range over all topics of work, life, husband, books we are reading all done over a glass of red wine (of course). She...

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The Passion for Learning blog Jul 17, 2018

Learning and mind features as #3 (out of 7) on my passion priorities for 2018.  This year we made a decision to go skiing for the first time as a family.  I was excited at first to learn...

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How to stand out amongst a crowd........ blog Apr 19, 2018

Vietnam is known for its tailors.  In fact, there are literally thousands on them.  And that is just in Hoi An, a city of 120,000 people only let alone the rest of Vietnam.

How do you...

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Approval from others. blog Mar 18, 2018

Last week, I spoke with many mums in the school yard where their child especially their daughters were being told what to do by other kids through text messages.  The implication was if they...

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Learning's from Malcolm Gladwell blog Dec 13, 2017

I had the opportunity to hear this master writer speak last week.  Malcolm Gladwell is the author of several NY Best Selling books such as Tipping Point, Outliers and others.  If you...

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4 Tips on getting the pay rise you deserve. blog Oct 09, 2017

Women are paid approximately 17% below that of their male counterpart for the same role with similar experience.

And although the movement of women suffering to just vote is way behind...

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