100 Lessons on Happiness in 100 words or less
How happy would you say you were yesterday? How happy do you want to be tomorrow? How can you work to be happier in life and work? Good positive emotions like happiness are important because they increase our chances of being more successful and healthy. Happiness!...
Ways to effectively network and influence by Averil Leimon
Averil Leimon gives you a few tips to be more influential and network more effectively. As explained in the video below, these are critical to women’s career success.
3 tips for being more confident by Averil Leimon
Averil Leimon gives 3 helpful tips to help women be more confident with themselves and advance in their careers. Watch the video below in order to push your confidence to the next level.
Career women: It takes a village to raise a child
A very personal story by Averil Leimon They say ‘it takes a village to raise a child’ yet many modern women seem to assume almost total responsibility for the survival and well-being of their infants with a secondary role somewhere for the father. I meet women all...
Is confidence a skill, an attribute like charisma? Or a combination of self-belief, tools and practice?
It seems that confidence is a word used in increasing aspects of everyday life. We are all acquainted with the term consumer confidence and its importance in our fragile economy; the notion that if consumers believe in a product, brand or company/organisation that...
“ The Good Wife” – How traditional family patterns are changing for the modern woman in Asia
We know that the ongoing struggle for female equality in the UK is alive and kicking – just look at the success of the Women’s Equality Party in the recent elections, or the current petition which the UK Government will now debate as to whether companies should force...
Blonde bombshell or working mother of two? – Benefits and pitfalls of stereotyping
Many moons ago the Glasgow Herald, headlined me as ‘tempting fate’ – when reporting that a company had hired ‘the services of an attractive 32-year old industrial psychologist in order to “stress-proof” the top management team’… Stereotyping works as a quick way of...
Averil Leimon had a lot to say to Kay Adams ( BBC Radio Scotland) about Sexism !
Averil was interviewed today by Kay Adams from BBC Radio Scotland on the theme of sexism. Further to yesterday’s news (imposed high heel wear for women as part of the uniform), this raised important questions such as: “can sexism be measured?”...
If it’s good enough for plastic bags, it’s good enough for women
Let’s talk about plastic bags. Last year the law came into place and we had to pay for them. Cue bemused shoppers, who could easily afford 5 pence, staggering out of shops with their arms full of goods or shelling out the money and doing the walk of shame as they...
Greed is good… for culture change
Those of you familiar with our work will know that we are unashamed behaviourists: if you want people to change, change the rewards and the measurements! In the great debate about gender and financial performance, we already know that executive positions are more...