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Congratulations to all the finalists at NAWIC QLD - National Association of Women in Construction Awards tonight, including our very own CEO Felicity Furey. Recognition always comes after the initial courageous act which all of you would have taken a long time ago. 👏 Have a wonderful evening, and its terrific to celebrate such great work which is happening across the sector.

We're super proud to have our CEO Felicity Furey presenting at the @women in engineering summit today by Quest Events. We wish all the delegates a fantastic few days, with such a range of high caliber speakers.

Powerlink was proud to be part of the 2024 Women in Technology Awards with Emma Rogers, General Manager of Strategic Network Operations presenting the Future Focused Business Achiever Award to Felicity Furey. For 27 years, the #WiTAwards have celebrated the talents and achievements of Queensland women in STEM who are driving technological innovations and positive initiatives across various industries - like Felicity's contribution to inspiring the next generation of engineers and emerging leaders. Congratulations to all the nominees and award winners, it was wonderful to see so many talented women being recognised across an incredibly diverse range of technology fields. #womeninenergy #womeninengineering #womenintechnology #WiTAwards2024

What are you celebrating this week? I loved taking a moment to pause and celebrate with Natasha Roy, GAICD and Jana Lanigan at the Australian HR awards last night 👏🏻 a massive accomplishment for us and one to to celebrate - our programs being excellence awardees and the people who make it happen. A big take away was noticing how often it’s so easy to get on with it, get caught up in work and not actually stop to celebrate. Huge congratulations to our partners at John Holland and Brisbane Airport Corporation who were named as Excellence Awardees in Best Leadership Program and Best Development Program for our work together on the Connect and Altitude Programs!! While we didn’t get to take out the overall winner, making it this far is huge and shows the impact we are having with first time leaders. Thank you Jane Dionysius, Larinda Donnellon, Natasha, Jana, Ryan Dodd and so many more for backing us right from the start, creating a vision for early career leaders, women in construction, diversity in infrastructure and continuing to partner with us several years on. So this week I’m stopping to celebrate WeAspire, our partners, the first time leaders in our programs, all 633 of them over the last 4 years, the many mentors that back these leaders and of course my amazing business and life partner Michael Furey. Great bonus to boogie on the dance floor with Alice Hanna and celebrate Kapitol Group being excellence awardees for their grad program. What will you pause and celebrate this week?!

You don’t win a Gold Medal by mistake. But how do top teams get such high performance from their athletes? 🧐 Is it just talent? Plain hard work? Or is something else at play? Our mission at WeAspire is to build the worlds most effective first time leader training for the infrastructure and construction sectors. We took at look at what these top teams are up to, and found 5 Key factors: 1. Aim for mastery: Seems simple but all the best are unapologetically ambitious 2. Embed purpose: They find a higher meaning than just doing the work. This meaning is compelling, and provides a vision to elevate their performance 3. Care a lot: From hiring a cleaner to help out at home, to encouraging positive talk in the gym, top teams take caring for others seriously 4. Challenge their people: Top teams create environments where challenge is welcomed, and development is the status quo. 5. Provide Autonomy: Once high standards are met, the highest level of performance can only Emerge when the individual members take charge of their progress. If you’re curious about what it takes, you can download your copy for free (no email required) here: https://lnkd.in/gvjQXYFs

To be biased, is to be human. Research shows it is almost impossible to remove bias - so the best way is to design processing and strategies which just avoid scenarios where its likely to show up. If you want to see 27other great ways to rebalance gender equity, check out our free report here (no email required): https://lnkd.in/gupyVFwE

When it comes to navigating your career it pays to work to your strengths. Here is a great strategy to look at your skills sets more broadly.

Understanding that we all have similar thoughts and reactions, can help you perform better under pressure. Listen to the full episode of Performing Under Pressure here:

Curiosity. This was the trait that a top Australian Sailing Coach said that they looked for in their athletes. And it turns out to be exactly what is needed to become a leader. If you are curious, you are open to learning. If you are open to learning, you can improve. If you improve, and remain curious you can achieve anything. Leadership is less a destination, and more a lifestyle. A way of thinking. A way of acting in the world. Once you embody the thoughts, and beliefs of a leader its very hard for you to stop. That said, leadership continues to evolve and new challenges require leaders to remain as learns. Stay curious. Its the defining trait of any great leader.

Its easy to forget, but the chance of you being here on this planet is 1 in 400 Trillion. You are a miracle. Often surrounded by others who are also struggling to see their own miraculous. Who could you help today? What gifts could you bring to the world?