TEMplate – How Can I Help You…
Start Your Business?
Grow Your Business?
Sell Your Business?
I know these are often burning issues when combining motherhood and business. What I want to know is how I can best serve you around these key topics? I certainly have my own ideas on how I might do that e.g. to create the entrepreneurial mother™ “hub” (via the internet); to develop more checklists etc etc; but are they what will help you?
I go into some detail in the latest TEMplate, click here, and much of that has been based on your feedback to date; and now I want to know much more…
I look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers Denise
Women sacked over leave…
When I read this headline this morning, I thought “you’ve got to be kidding!”. Then when I thought about it a little longer, this came as a reminder that ignorance and bad planning that drives much of business today is still alive and kicking, and that many have not learned a thing about how to use these fabulous women resources to their joint advantage. When women are just seen as a “cost” that can be easily replaced, then that’s what happens…still it would seem.
Also, what does behaviour like this indicate to our want-to-be mothers? No wonder the age of child birth has been pushed out way to far; and as for ones who leave it so long they miss out altogether… very difficult to know what to do indeed.
To summarise the article…
Women are being sacked for taking maternity leave, and told to quit if they can’t juggle family and the work roster, the Fair Work Ombudsman’s office has found.
University of Sydney associate professor Marian Baird, an expert in maternity-leave research, said it is not only small businesses that are a problem – large companies often ”reorganise” while a woman is away, leaving no position to return to.
New mothers are ”in a vulnerable position and often the last thing they want is to fight a battle with their employer”.
Professor Baird said employers need their female staff and companies ”risk very bad branding” if word got out that they made life difficult for women taking, or refused, maternity leave.
Read on…
No wonder more and more of us entrepreneurial mothers are vying to do our own thing. Even if it’s not always ideal, you only have to sack yourself if need be! and it’s no surprise either as you know it’s coming!!
There is definitely the opportunity for government money well spent educating bosses on how to best utilise this resource. But is really anyone listening and/or paying any attention anyway?
Ladies, if the “organisation” won’t look after you, then best you do that for yourself, and/or in conjunction with other ladies in the same boat. Come and stick your toe in, the water’s fine!
Breaking Organizational Codependence…
Breaking Organizational Codependence: Downsizing’s Liberating Wake-Up Call by David Noer for ChangeThis.com
“I’m told there is an ancient Chinese curse that translates into, “May you live an interesting life!” That is certainly true as we experience today’s global pandemic of downsizing. Layoff victims and survivors alike react to this new reality with a toxic stew debilitating emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, and depression–what I call layoff survivor sickness.
We can change that; we can reframe the death toll of the old paradigm into a wake-up call that will help us create an exciting world of work that is more autonomous, personally relevant, and more in congruence with our unique gifts.
Read on…
Whilst I’m not convinced there is a pandemic happening, I do agree that being made to change can indeed be the best thing that happens to you, whether you believe it at the time or not…
feel the fear and do it anyway!
Inside the Grants Internet Business Workshop…
I have spent the last 4 days (with 300 of my closest friends) learning from some of the best in the business about the Internet and using it to market products for great chunks of cash! The main contributors to the workshop were Andrew and Daryl Grant pictured above, with yours truly. They were ably supported by a number of other contributors that make up their million dollar mind set faculty.
I have to tell you that the workshop was 4 days well spent. I will definitely be using the information to take the entrepreneurial mother to the next level. It’s going to be very exciting times ahead so I’ll update you as I go, here on the blog.
If you have any questions of me, you can always leave a comment or two! or alternatively drop me an email.
Transparency Triumph
another beauty from trendwatching.com
Think ‘transparency’ is an established, maturing theme? You ain’t seen nothing yet. Sure, we’ve been harping on forever about the many ways consumers can research, compare and review their way to a more powerful position, but every month brings us smart new examples of consumers and brands intent on making opinions, quality standards and prices even more transparent.
So, it’s time for a fresh look at the latest and greatest in the transparency arena*, where savvy consumers (as well as on-trend brands) can score triumph after triumph. We’ll look at how reviews are set for even more spectacular growth, how price comparison is getting much more sophisticated, and how the inner-workings of companies will be exposed in pragmatic new ways. We then end this briefing with a countertrend, OPENLY OPAQUE, that raises the bar even higher.
Catching Up is the New Looking Ahead
how good is this?… instead of the TrendWatching.com team ambushing us with yet another Big New Trend this month, they decided to make life easier for all of us, and send an overview of the trends (PDFs included) covered so far in 2009.
From LUXYOURY to ECO-FRUGAL to GENERATION G.
So here’s another chance to get ready for a no doubt turbulent remainder of 2009. View all trends here
Will entrepreneurial success turn your kids into w_______s?
writes Sahil Merchant for AnthillOnline
What ever word you choose to fill the gap with, the premise is still the same… will entrepreneurial success, and by that Sahil infers money, and plenty of it, effect your children in ways you’re possibly none to fond of? Whilst the potential for great learning is there for your children, will they really want to know? Or do they just like spending the money? or do they want to find their own path, and maybe even end up back in corporate land?…
A case in point…
Two of the four people I caught up with were born wealthy. They have made lots of money on their own, but they had millions to start with. They are smart, innovative and driven. Yet, they have never felt the fear of not being able to meet their rent. They don’t know what it is like to beg for funding from friends and family. They were born into advantage, and have done very well from a privileged position. It was easier for them. Or so I tell myself. There is not the same sacrifice involved when you know that failure involves a slap on the wrists from the family patriarchs and punishment via confinement to your beach house.
The other two succeeded from a zero base. I find myself attaching more value to their entrepreneurial pursuits than those who had a running start. Is this right? Why should I discount the achievements of the first two simply because of their parents? It wasn’t their fault who they were born to, yet I will never truly afford them the same level of respect I have for the ’self-made’ entrepreneurs.
One path is not any better than another. Some may be perceived to be easier, but not necessarily in the eyes of the beholder. As we know, whatever we do effects our children whether we like it or not. We can only consistently try to model the behaviours we want them to master, and really the rest of the time, we can just hope that it is/was all worth it!
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