Women’s Business Networks in Northern Ireland
Having heard about women’s networks in NI and looked up a few online, I soon began to feel a little confused (like some others I spoke to), due to the similarities in names. Below, I have set out each organisation I am aware of and a little of their flavour. Business Women’s Network Area: This is a joint venture, including Antrim, Londonderry, Tyrone and Down. Individual...
Read MoreBusiness Networking for Women in NI
Last night, I attended Women on the Move‘s networking event, with Liz Weir as the speaker. Liz delivered a fascinating talk entitled Storytelling – A Vital Business Communication Tool. Liz is also speaking at our Storytelling, Business and Innovation event which you can read more about here. The two concepts that captured my imagination during the talk were memory and...
Read MoreHow to Manage the Men in Your Life
We are holding a workshop at Queen’s University Belfast, What Men Want: How to Manage the Men in Your Life. This is a one-day event. Listen to Allen’s radio interview about the event (11/04/08) on U105 here. Mutual understanding between the sexes is a key for greater harmony in the home, workplace and society. We’ll look at how psychologists have described the differences...
Read MoreDiscover the Truth About the Opposite Sex
The Essential Difference, Simon Baron-Cohen, Penguin Books, 2004 The sub-title blurb of this seminal book is ‘Forget Mars and Venus, and Discover the Truth About the Opposite Sex’. Baron-Cohen, professor of psychology and psychiatry at Cambridge University, goes out of his way to distance his book from its famous predecessor (John Gray, Men are From Mars, Women are From Venus). This...
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