Gold Medal Career

I had the pleasure of attending a presentation given by Sally Gunnell last night.  The event was organised by Women In Technology and held at BP's headquarters in London. Women In Technology is a leading online job board and networking forum for women working in the technology profession in the UK and they provide many events throughout the year to inspire and encourage so an opportunity to hear Sally Gunnell was one not to be missed.  The topic of Sally's presentation was Rising to the challenge: how to achieve a 'gold medal career' and I have to say, it was undoubtedly one of the best presentations I've ever seen or heard. 

Breaking glass: strategies for tomorrow's leaders

I've recently received a flurry of emails from female readers of my blog who want to change career.  In some cases, they're already at the top of their game, whilst others are feeling unfulfilled and unable to shine where they are. 

So it's timely that a really interesting report conducted by CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants) came my way this morning.  The report "Breaking glass: strategies for tomorrow's leaders" and although the content is mainly aimed at women, the hints and tips are equally applicable to men as well. 

Great leadership is vital in any organisation or industry, it just happens that the accountancy world has produced this report.  I'd encourage any visitor to this page to read the report.  There's a particularly useful Action Plan towards the end.

CanDo Sandhu Spirit!

I have 2 key beliefs:

1.  Everything happens for a reason
2.  There are opportunities everywhere, you just have to open your eyes to see them

Never were these beliefs more important than when Sat, my husband, and I lost our jobs in March 2009.  Losing one earner in a household is bad, both was unthinkable.  On the plus side, we'd known a few months in advance that this was going to happen so we'd had time to work through the various emotional states - "why me?", "what are we going to do now?", "how are we going to pay the mortgage?", etc, etc.  Lingering in this state wasn't going to help us, we had to figure out Plan B, and get on with it.  Time for the CanDo Sandhu spirit to spring into action!