Volunteering on a not-for-profit organisation's board or committee might be the smartest thing you ever do - board experience and leadership go hand in hand. Click here to read more. 

From the Harvard Business Review Blog Network is a great article that every mentor should read - "Five Questions Every Mentor Must Ask".

1. What is it that you really want to be and do?
2. What are you doing really well that is helping you get there?
3. What are you not doing well that is preventing you from getting there?
4. What will you do differently tomorrow to meet those challenges?
5. How can I help / where do you need the most help?

Click here to read the article and find out how these questions for an effective diagnostic tool for mentees or yourself.

From the New York Times comes this article from Peggy Klaus on how to ask for what you want in the workplace. "Whether from fear of being perceived as too aggressive or too selfish, women tend not to be comfortable asking for what they want. And when they do ask, it can be in ineffective ways."  Click here to read the full article.

From Business Week and Executive Coach Marshall Goldsmith comes 20 common bad habits that can hold you back from achieving the leadership heights you aspire to:

• Winning Too Much: The need to win at all costs and in all situations—when it matters, when it doesn’t, and when it’s totally beside the point.
• Adding Too Much Value: The overwhelming desire to add our two cents to every discussion.
• Passing Judgment: The need to rate others and impose our standards on them.
• Making Destructive Comments: The needless sarcasms and cutting remarks that we think make us sound sharp and witty.
• Starting with “No,” “But,” or “However”: The overuse of these qualifiers, which secretly say to everyone, “I’m right. You’re wrong.”
• Telling the World How Smart We Are: The need to show people we’re smarter than they think we are.
• Speaking When Angry: Using emotional volatility as a management tool.
• Negativity: The need to share our negative thoughts, even when we weren’t asked.
• Withholding Information: The refusal to share information in order to maintain an advantage over others.

The Medical Women’s International Association (MWIA) is a non-governmental, not-for-profit organization that was established in 1919, making it one of the longest-running international medical associations today ^[1].

The Australian Centre for Leadership for Women (CLW) is now accessible for all.  CLW has been operating since 2000 and has in that time profiled many national and international leaders as well as featured research, information and resources relating to numerous topics on women's leadership. Visit CLW today for leadership resources and news.

The Change Champion website has resources available for download from the November 5-6 conference "Investing in the Health Workforce: Aligning Strategy, Leadership and the Team" held in Sydney, Australia.

Downloads are available from each of the sessions, which included

Investing in the Health Care Workforce. Is Reform and Innovation Enough
Innovation, Leadership and Performance
Practice Development and Clinical Excellence
Rural and Remote Recruitment and Retention
Empowering and Energising the Workforce