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The secrets of Self-Promotion to advance your career

Promoting yourself – in person and virtually – at work is a necessary part of your career. You don’t have to brag about your accomplishments, but you do need to be both tactical and strategic about letting your boss, peers, and the world know about what you excel in, and what you accomplish in your job.

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How to include and avoid isolation

We have all rapidly adopted the technology to keep connected to our coworkers and clients. The next step is to ensure our workforce feels included in this time of social isolation when working from home.

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Keep up your power

Now, more than ever, we need to manage effectively our personal resources, our physical, mental and emotional energy. We connected from our home offices and gained some concrete insights and techniques of how to navigate through the COVID-19 crisis.

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Make Home Working Work

From one day to the next, many of us have had to adapt to a remote and virtual team set up due to the Covid-19 lockdown. Therefore, we explored the tools available to increase collaboration, team spirit and engagement. Join us in one - or all - of our upcoming webinars!

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The War For Talent

Research shows that managers at organizations with advanced D&I strategies are about 30 percent more likely than others to feel highly loyal, innovative and set up for top performance. At the same time, taking a check-the-box approach to D&I leads to worse outcomes than doing nothing at all.

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One person. Two genders. Always a leader.

At the last 2019 Role Model Event @ SAP, we were taken to a fascinating journey. Angela Mattes, CEO Baloise Life (LI), shared her first hand experience on what it means to take a major decision in life: be bold, accept yourself, fight stereotypes - and change your gender.

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Tested & proven practices for a successful career

Personal success stories from three inspiring leaders in pharma and politics demonstrated that the path to success looks very different for all of us. Through sharing their personal stories with the audience the three leaders were able to inspire and strengthen us and others on the way to success.

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International Men's Day 2019 - The Return of the Alpha Male?

On 19 November, history was made when more than 70 men and a small number of women celebrated International Men’s Day at the PwC Experience Center in Zurich. For Advance, it was the first time that men outnumbered women at an event about gender equality, and it sent a clear message that men want to be a part of the solution to a more equal workplace.

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Time to Flex: Making Flextime Work

The desire for working flexibly is gender and age neutral. Requesting for part-time, does not mean that you are not an ambitious person in regards to your career development. Another wrong assumption is that you cannot reach a leadership position if you are working flexibly.

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The Other Half with Simona Scarpaleggia

It was great to see so many women gathering at Binelli Group – a traditionally male dominated business and our 100th member company! We had the chance to listen to a passionate C-suite advocate of gender equality and a panel of senior executives debating about the role of leaders, companies and individuals when it comes to increasing diversity.

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