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Shifting the Dials: A New Approach for Success in Work and Life

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The book ends with a section on impact, that is, making a difference, whether at work, at home, in the community or elsewhere. In Anderton-Davies’ case she says she has a feminism dial which sits alongside her work and career dials “because it is intimately linked to the impact I can have in the male-dominated spaces in which I operate”.

And it would provide for an increase in New Zealand funding to multilateral institutions, especially the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank, both vital institutions that alongside donor states can offer sustainable investment choices for Pacific nations. One in five New Zealanders – approximately one million people – now have Maori or Pasifika heritage, and this demographic trend is growing. A new mother enlisted other women to persuade her company to implement a flexible time policy for everyone.This was the era of Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In and it seemed to confirm that the only way to get ahead as a woman was to try harder, assert better and demand more. “I loved that book. It absolutely influenced me,” she recalls. Yet child health inequalities are not an inevitability. They are the result of unfair and systematic differences in the social determinants of health between different groups of babies, children, and young people – and poverty is a driving factor.

Anderton-Davies said: “The Dials framework has allowed me to find fulfilment from the various and varied component parts of my life and I am both humbled and thrilled to share it more widely. I hope Shifting the Dials can help move the conversation away from the stunningly unhelpful approach of work-life balance and prompt better and more plentiful dialogues about topics such as career fulfilment, finding impact, money, quitting and the trades and decisions we all make as we navigate life.” The strategy was developed with the assistance of CIHT’s EDI panel and the Clear Company, a leading company that provides inclusive talent management, consultancy and online toolkits. The next steps will see the strategy embedded as a core activity for CIHT.New Zealand directs 60 percent of its development spending to the Pacific. This ratio is becoming more important. CIHT has been at the forefront of advocating for greater Equality, Diversity and Inclusion across the highways, transportation and infrastructure sector. Through our new strategy [Shifting the dial] we are showing just how our industry must implement change to deliver exceptional infrastructure while creating an environment that attracts and retains a progressive workforce. Aside from pushing for systemic change, our strategy will show how CIHT is taking firm steps to promote a more diverse and inclusive industry through sharing best practice and celebrating contributions from a variety of individuals and members in our events and through widening representation opportunities in our governance structures.” These dynamics are changing New Zealand’s relative influence. At one level we are moving from a post-colonial influence to a mature political and development partner. Build on achievements to date to drive the EDI agenda more consistently and with greater pace within the CIHT membership and across the sector

Authors make a mint writing books that tell women what is wrong with us. The truth is there is nothing wrong with women—the problem is that the organizations we work in were designed by men, for men, who had women at home doing the housework and raising the children. This is no longer functional and never was fair. Now most families need two breadwinners (or are headed by single parents) and women want the opportunity to succeed in their chosen fields. Women make up half the workplace today, even though they hold under 20% of top leadership positions across all sectors. In 2015, Melbourne grew by more people every five days than Hobart added in the entire year (p. 124)

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It is believed the used car and intellectual property numbers were changed because, on review, Productivity Commission officials felt they were unrealistic. Her book outlines a different way of looking at the issue – the shifting dials – which she argues is a much more realistic way of knitting together all the pieces of our lives in the present while allowing us to plan for the future. From dashboard to resilience It would also enable an increased focus on sectors important for the promotion of our values – including good governance and transparency, human rights, women’s political and economic empowerment.

The phrase work-life balance has become so commonplace in the last years. It seems like the nirvana so many of us are seeking, but it is one that Rebecca Anderton-Davies describes as toxic. That is because she says it paints a picture which is impossible to achieve, a static, two-dimensional, conflict-prone picture which is out of sync with the constantly changing, four-dimensional world we live in. Next come the dials on your dashboard – there should be many for different aspects of your life, for instance, several for work – not just what you are doing now, but promotions you are seeking, jobs you are applying for and so forth. There will be dials for family, for leisure pursuits, voluntary work and so forth so that the dials reflect your life as a whole. You may need to remove a dial at any given stage to make way for other dials. Honesty is vital. Anderton-Davies writes: “Your dials are about expressing your life as an expansive list of its component parts: how you are spending your time now and how you want to be – each as its own dial. Together, these handful or two of dials represent both what is important to you and what you are doing about it, day-to-day, week-to-week, month-to-month and year-to-year.” Last comes resilience, which includes building the mechanisms into your life that support the way you want to shift the dials at any given moment and for the long term. “Dials resilience is a reminder to create space in your life for the things that will allow you to stay in the game – a strong body, a happy mind, a chance to see and hear and touch the people you love as regularly as possible,” writes Anderton-Davies.

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For a nation that prides itself on being a responsible international citizen, that is simply not good enough. A Productivity Commission spokeswoman said the report was changed in July last year after concerns about some of the numbers in it were raised within the organisation. New Zealand’s coalition government was formed with the intention of leading change rather than managing a modified status quo.

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