Author Archives: yamommy

Retaining mothers in the workplace

Two days ago, my colleague and I had a discussion with a women’s coaching company about how women are different from men (again, it seems that most of my posts revolve around this topic) when it comes to work-life balance, or work-life integration. Our discussion started off with ‘what are the challenges women face in [...]

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What are your company’s values?

I have to admit that some of the best core values that I have ever come across as an HR professional make up the DNA of www.gonabit.com. To me,  core values of any company need to be simple, short, and easy to understand; most importantly, you can apply these core values to your personal life. So [...]

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Personal Branding – your mantra?

Being a member of bnet.com, I get some pretty good articles straight into my RSS feed. Yesterday’s article was on something that I was quite familiar with because of Dan Stuart’s presentation on Personal Branding. Employer Brand Building – Career Site 2.0 View more presentations from Dan Stuart. But as I was reading Guy Kawasaki’s [...]

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Women and Men – Equal but Different

I was having a conversation with my female married colleagues at work and we were discussing how different we are from the male species. Why does this surprise us all the time? The conclusion: men like to focus on one problem or issue at a time while women heroically juggle MANY things at once.   But hey, that’s nothing [...]

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Hello world!

Today is the day that I decided to blog about several things that I care about – the Earth, learning and development,  HR issues and last but definitely not least, motherhood! I have recently become a new mom and balancing work and motherhood is quite challenging. I find that I don’t really have the time [...]

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