by theEmother | May 15, 2008 | entrepreneur trends (past & present!), political offerings, so you think you're in business
The 2008 Virgin Blue National Small Business Summit, organised by the Council of Small Business of Australia (COSBOA), will again bring together leading business figures and senior parliamentarians
to discuss and review the significant challenges and opportunities facing Australia’s dynamic small business sector.
In this important full-day Summit, delegates will gain new insights about major changes which are impacting on small and medium-sized businesses.
Leading business and political identities will outline the impact of the changes to the trade practices act, tax reform and regulatory reforms, the transformation of business being driven by e-commerce innovations, the convergence of telecommunications and the Internet, franchising and retailing trends and opportunities, marketing trends and developments and gain important information about the economic and business outlook for small business.
To find out more, click here…
by theEmother | Mar 20, 2008 | entrepreneur trends (past & present!), so you think you're in business
This month, trendwatching.com looks at FREE LOVE, which is all about the ongoing rise of ‘free stuff’, and the brands already making the most it.
Not to mention the millions of consumers who are happily getting into a free-for-all mindset. Yes, expectations are being set.
Absorb and apply!
P.S. sticking with FREE LOVE,
trendwatching.com are giving away 5 MacBook Airs this month!
All trendwatching.com ask you to do is to tell your colleagues, or clients, or friends about trendwatching.com. Just go to the Tell a Friend page
Apart from being a great source of trend information, winning a MacBook Air wouldn’t be a bad Easter Egg to collect now would it!! You must let me know if you win it…good luck…
by theEmother | Mar 6, 2008 | entrepreneur trends (past & present!), entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women
I don’t know about you?… but I too love black.
It is certainly the staple colour in my wardrobe.
Not only because of its versatility, and easyness, but its also very useful around kids!…
I still love my fashion, so this article is in recognition of that.
Enjoy!
If one thing unites Melburnians, it’s our passion for black fashion. Rachel Wells finds out why it’s this city’s best-selling shade.
On any given day, black ensembles outnumber any other hue in Melbourne, particularly in the lanes that lie in the shadows of the city’s skyline… read on
by theEmother | Feb 22, 2008 | entrepreneur trends (past & present!), entrepreneurial mothers
by Dewi Cooke for TheAge
The Bureau of Statistics figures provide a snapshot of how Australians while the days away and show that we are spending less time per week on recreation and leisure activities such as sports, games and arts and craft, although we now spend an extra hour a week zoning out in front of the television or roaming through cyberspace.
But the differences are most stark between the sexes.
Although men and women spend similar amounts of time “working” (between 51 and 52 hours a week), men spend more time in paid employment and women spend substantially more time on unpaid work.
Clearly the model we are currently using is not working as planned.
I appreciate that we have been working with this arrangement for some time now, the evidence is available to prove that what was supposed to happen is not…
so where to from here?
Opens up many possibilities really doesn’t it…
by theEmother | Feb 19, 2008 | entrepreneur trends (past & present!), political offerings
The women, men, work and family project was launched by Sex Discrimination Commissioner Pru Goward in 2005. It examines the relationship between family responsibilities and paid work.
Striking the balance between paid work and family life has become more than a “barbeque stopper” – it is one of the major challenges facing families, employers and governments.
HREOC released a discussion paper, Striking the Balance: Women, men, work and family in June 2005.
The project builds on the Human Rights and Equal Opportunities Commission’s previous work on paid maternity leave and the Pregnancy and Work Inquiry by examining the broader issues for Australians who seek to combine paid work and family responsibilities.
At the heart of efforts to “strike the balance” between paid work and family and carer responsibilities is the issue of time.
It’s About Time: Women, men, work and family is the final paper of this project.
It’s About Time draws on material provided through 181 submissions from individuals and groups and 44 consultations and focus groups held around Australia throughout 2005 and 2006. HREOC heard many personal stories during the consultations and focus groups and spoke to employers, employer groups, employees, unions, community groups, parents, carers and children.
Despite a decade or more of economic growth and prosperity, many Australians say they are not living the lives they want. They feel pressured, stressed and constrained in the choices they can make, particularly at key points in their lives.
Family relationships top their list of priorities, but the demands of paid work increasingly undermine the time that people have to care for their children, parents and other family members.
While a large number of workplaces have family-friendly policies, many others do not.
The cost of not finding solutions to this challenge can be immense, particularly for individuals who are forced to take poorer quality paid work in order to meet their dual responsibilities or who have to drop out of the labour market altogether.
There are also costs for employers, particularly in industries with skills shortages, and costs for the economy as a whole in terms of workforce participation and productivity.
The aim has been to broaden the work and family debate to better include men’s role in family life, include forms of care other than child care (such as elder care and care for people with disability) and to highlight the relationship between paid work and unpaid work.
It’s About Time makes the case for a new framework to support a balance between paid work and family responsibilities. This new framework recognises changes in caring needs and responsibilities across the life cycle, addresses equality between men and women and reflects a “shared work – valued care” approach.
It proposes a series of changes to legislation, workplace policy and practice and government programs to support this new approach.
Making this new framework a reality requires commitment from governments, employers, communities, families and individuals because, in the end, striking the balance between paid work and family is a shared responsibility.
These proposed changes to legislation will most certainly affect your organisation in time, possibly sooner rather than later.
How committed and open will your organisation be??
Will it be ready to share the responsibility?….
by theEmother | Feb 19, 2008 | entrepreneur trends (past & present!), entrepreneurial mothers, inspiring women
The number of female millionaires in Britain has been rising on the back of social trends – such as inheritance and the rapidly climbing divorce rate – according to independent market analyst Datamonitor.
On top of that, a new generation of women have started to prosper in their own right, and female entrepreneurs are increasingly growing in number.
are you at millionaire status yet?
if not why not?
