Helen Wright
(Un)natural Selection

Last Spring, I went to the gorgeous, glorious wedding of a friend who works in AI.  The bride was radiant, the groom beaming, and the vicar performed a heart-warming service.  In many ways, it was a very traditional occasion. But when we came to the wedding breakfast, the Best Man's speech had a very modern twist.  It had been written by ChatGPT.

(Un)natural Selection
Helen Wright
Inspiration

This week, for the first time, we realised that it was light when we awoke.   It's funny how such a small thing can lift your heart so much, isn't it?  And in our newly-cheery state, we've noticed other tentative suggestions that winter might finally be drawing to a close.  The cherry blossom at the school gate is cutting a dash through the grey afternoons.  When the sun does come out, the March sky is so intensely blue - so sharp and crisp - that it almost hurts to look at it.  They're tiny, incremental steps, but every day feels a little brighter here at 9-2-3 HQ.  We're looking forward with renewed excitement to the months to come.

Inspiration
Helen Wright
Child's Play

Leaving your children for the first time is a big step - there's just no getting around it.  Whether you're re-joining the workforce after a career break or your maternity leave is coming to an end, the return to work can be nerve wracking.

Child's Play
Helen Wright
Is it just January blues, or have I fallen out ...

Michael Georgiou from Aligned Career Coaching, helps professionals who have fallen out of love with the work they do find careers that both fulfil them and bring them joy. We asked Michael what falling out of love with a career might look like, and what professionals can do to start the process of finding a job they love…

Is it just January blues, or have I fallen out of love with my career?
Helen Wright
Fairy Tales

Relationships are at the heart of what we do, and we'd love to talk to you in 2024 about what you're looking for from a new role.  There's no need to change yourself - come as you are, and shout from the rooftops about your achievements.  Now's the perfect time. 

Fairy Tales

flexible working

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#dadsflextoo - A blog by Phil Farr

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Hi, my name's Phil and I work as a Senior Project Officer for the Greater London Authority and have done for 20 years. Yes, really! I have a partner and a lovely daughter who is 7. We live in the Home Counties and due to being able to work flexibly, I am able to balance the commute to work in London with some work from home days and this suits me because I can be there to do the school run and take my daughter to after-school activities.

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#dadsflextoo - An interview with Tom Briggs | Diary of the Dad

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My name's Tom and I'm a dad of three. I've been a full-time blogger for the last three and a half years. This makes me more of a work-at-home dad than a stay-at-home one in the truest sense, but I've enjoyed the best of both worlds as a result.

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#dadsflextoo - An interview with Andy Philip

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Hi, I’m Andy Philip; self-employed freelance musician; Dad to six year old twins. My work involves live performance, recording sessions, arranging, composing and some teaching. Performance-work always tends to be in the evening which means leaving home around the kids’ dinner time to make the commute into the West End (I’m the contracted guitarist on the musical Wicked).

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#dadsflextoo - An interview with Jonathan Sherlock

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Hi I’m Jonathan. I currently work two days a week as a change consultant in Local Government and spend two days on a small online retail start-up which I launched with a friend of 25 years in March of this year called Ctrl and Shift. I am the primary carer of my two youngest children, Dylan (6) who is in Y1 at school and Catherine (2) who is in nursery. I also have a 13 year old son, Benjamin.   

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Flexible working is just for Mums, isn't it?

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Actually no, it really isn’t and it’s something that we often challenge businesses with when we talk to them about the wonderful benefits of flexible working. We talked to Jackie C Whittingham, Special Projects Senior Manager at Grant Thornton UK LLP who gave us an insight into what life is really like for those seeking flexibility within the company (and you guessed it, it isn’t just Mums making this work for them)…

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How technology facilitates flexible working…with Flex IT

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If you're wondering if it's possible to implement flexible working within your team...but you keep getting that niggling feeling that it would just be too time consuming and expensive, we can assure you that it's not the big task mountain that you think it is. …

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Build Your Confidence by Anna Morris of First Focus Consultants

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Confidence is a funny thing, we can be super confident in one area of our lives, yet crumble and feel nervous, or worse, terrified at the prospect of facing other situations.  The key thing to being confident is EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE…