Lifting Taboo keeps Women in Work
Companies with more women on their boards outperform their rivals. They have a 42% higher return in sales, 66% higher return on invested capital and 53% higher return on equity. So why is the membership of the FTSE 100 boards made up of 87.5% men and only 12.5% women? Lord Davies of Abersoch attempted [...]
Be a better employer – Diversity Deals #Business Please RT
Continuing our cyber Monday deals, with our own special Birds flavouring – great value consultation calls that do a good deed as well as addressing diversity. In this post we talk about boosting your business through diversity and Jane Hatton is the woman to help you… 30 minute telephone consultation about how diversity can help [...]
Conducting Interviews
Conducting interviews for recruitment can be a sticky task Interviews that are unplanned can place your organisation at risk Some tips on running interviews: Interviews should be conducted in relaxed, comfortable surroundings, without interruption and in a manner that enables the candidate to give the best account of themselves. Following introductions, the structure of the [...]
15 Media clichés that make your skin crawl
I know that journalists in the “popular” press are obliged to use language with which readers can identify easily, but there are some terms in common use that drive me up the wall – cheesy, old fashioned, done to death and BORING. See how many of these make you cringe, too… Swears like a trooper [...]
Glamour, Flying High, Sexual Freedom, LSD and Minis, Ladies?
Shame on you – by LSD I meant pounds, shillings and pence – what were you thinking of? Minis both in the form of the iconic car and those hems that just kept rising and rising… The pill (pre AIDs) was the first contraceptive to give women a completely new level of control over how, [...]
All that jazz – All in A Day
If I sat down and really thought about what I could achieve in a single day, I might be able to come up with some interesting challenges that I think might be possible…. but record a whole album? Well that would probably not be one of them, even if I had the requisite talents. But [...]
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