Recently a journalist from Stuff asked me to comment about research released by AUT showing that women over 50 had the most work life balance and satisfaction with life and careers, while the opposite was true of women in their late 20s.

This interview got me thinking about …

The changing world of work and the impact that digital disruption and the ‘gig economy’ will have on careers and job prospects was a common topic of conversation among the ...

Ever thought about quitting on the spot after a heated discussion with your boss? Or telling your co-worker exactly what you think of them ...

Do you want to improve your professional brand and achieve more at work? Learning how to communicate more effectively could help.

If any part of your role at work requires you to be a trusted advisor, then developing business acumen has probably never been as crucial as it is now.

In the communications profession, for instance, the foundational and more tactical aspects of the professional communicator’s role, such as copywriting and proofreading, are increasingly being outsourced ­– or even replaced with apps (see Hemingway, Grammarly etc).

What if you’ve been given the job of creating an internal communications strategy for an organisation, but the organisation hasn’t actually articulated what it wants to achieve?

There’s no business strategy, no business plan, no articulation of its strategic direction at all.

So much of what we achieve at work every day we achieve through other people, so building good relationships is pretty fundamental to our success.

The way we communicate with colleagues and key stakeholders can make or break those relationships so it pays to know a thing or two about workplace communications.

An interesting theme I noticed when doing my MBA was the bringing together of business and the arts.

Unlikely bedfellows really. At least they are from the perspective of someone brought up around artists, writers and film-makers.