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Why Knowing and Articulating Your Value is Essential for Career Growth

Knowing and articulating your value isn’t a nice to have, it’s a must have.

3 CS To Success For Ambitious Goal Driven Women…3 of 3 Connections

The old adage “your network is your networth ” is true.

3 Cs To Success For Ambitious Goal Driven Women…2 of 3 Competence

Competence is the ability to perform a task or handle a specific situation effectively. A competent person has the skills, knowledge and expertise in a specific area. The combination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience often enables one to perform tasks and solve problems within a chosen field. To achieve success in whatever area ofContinueContinue reading “3 Cs To Success For Ambitious Goal Driven Women…2 of 3 Competence”

3 Cs To Success For Ambitious Goal Driven Women…. 1 of 3: Confidence

3 Cs to success for ambitious goal driven women…. 1 of 3 Confidence

5 Important Conversations Ambitious Working Women Should Have Before Marriage

When you are choosing a life partner, you are choosing a lot of things including your parenting partner and someone who will deeply influence your children, your eating companion for 20 000 meals, your travel companion for over 100 vacations, your primary leisure time and retirement friend, your career therapist and someone whose day you will hear about 18 000 times” – Tim Urban

Managing work requests during personal time.

You have been looking forward to your time away from work. Your out of office is set, your team is fully briefed and you have delegated everything. Despite all this, the WhatsApp messages with various work related requests keep coming. Read on and see some strategies that you can try to manage this.

Conquering Imposter Syndrome: 7 Key Steps To Embrace Your True Potential

Despite external evidence of their competence and achievements, individuals experiencing imposter syndrome often feel inadequate and believe that they are not as capable as others believe them to be.

It’s been a minute

Sometimes the pruning and shedding is beyond your control and other times you need to intentionally take actions that are uncomfortable in the short term but are very beneficial in the long term.

I gave myself a YES day and now I am making it a YES year

There is a definite place for a NO and there is a definite place for a YES. What is important is to be clear what you are saying NO to and what you are saying YES to.

Career Lessons From Netflix’s Miniseries Inventing Anna

All things being equal, people prefer to do business with people they KNOW, LIKE and TRUST. This came out very strongly in the Netflix miniseries Inventing Anna. Believe it or not there are some career lessons to be gleaned from that series.

My 2021 In Review

Life is like a cake. The individual ingredients like flour, salt, sugar, milk and raw eggs are gross when taken separately. However when you mix them in the right quantities, you get a delicious cake. Good things only make you pompous. Bad things only make you bitter. The right mix is what makes life beautiful.

Trust God to keep doors that you shouldn’t be walking into closed!

Not all opportunities are really meant for you and that’s okay. Sometimes it’s not easy to decide which opportunities to pursue and which to ignore. When I am faced with such decisions as a woman of faith, my prayer is always Lord close and lock the doors that I shouldn’t be walking into. You can trust Him to do that and order and direct your footsteps. Read my personal testimony.

7 Ways To Build A Strong Network As A Working Mum.

Build meaningful and deep connections before you need them. Yes it takes time, but it’s not as difficult as you think. Check out the 7 ways that have worked for me as a busy mom, wife, sister, friend……Even with endless responsibilities, you can still build a solid professional network.

Dear tired and sleep deprived mum…

For most mothers of young children, being sleep deprived is the order of the day. This isn’t a how to or what to do post. It’s me saying I see you. I was there before with 3 children, who were all below three years. It gets better. Hang in there!

How to make your Line Manager your biggest cheerleader…

Your Line Manager can be a strategic ally to help you meet your career goals. In this post I share how you can make your Line Manager your biggest cheerleader.

Why I love working from home.

A year into the pandemic, I know for a fact that I prefer and love working from home. The flexibility that this has afforded me to have a more integrated life is something I wish to see continuing. I am not naive to the extent of presenting WFH as all rosy. In my case theContinueContinue reading “Why I love working from home.”

Today I would have…

In loving remembrance of Simon Rambayi Dongonda Simende 21 December 1937- 4 March 2021. Four weeks ago today we laid my father to rest. The past weeks have been a rollercoaster of emotions, sadness, pain, guilt, fear, gratitude, and so many others that I can’t articulate. Even writing about Baba in the past tense stillContinueContinue reading “Today I would have…”

Finding your rhythm as a working mom…because well, balance doesn’t exist.

Monday the 18th of January was my first day back at work for 2021 after a three weeks break from the office. With the COVID-19 situation, we had planned a staycation, just being at home, no zoom meetings and no deadlines to worry about. Unlike our other family holidays which are packed with activities, thisContinueContinue reading “Finding your rhythm as a working mom…because well, balance doesn’t exist.”