Month: March 2011

Lifestyle Elements (along with a great picture of myself and baby Harper!) were lucky enough to be featured in South Australia’s ‘The Advertiser’ newspaper yesterday. The topic of the article was ‘Australian working mums spending just 15 hours with their children’. There were many (many) comments on the article on both www.adelaidenow.com.au and facebook, which obviously stirred […]

Well, almost anything! Sometimes, one of the biggest stumbling blocks when delegating work to someone else is worrying about what they’ll think. We find this a lot in our role as a personal concierge. “Won’t they wonder why I don’t do it myself?” “Won’t they think this is a waste of time?” “Isn’t this a […]

A few years ago one of our clients recounted a women’s networking lunch she had recently been to. The women on her table were all very successful in business and had achieved highly in their various areas of expertise. What our client couldn’t get over were the comments they were making, such as “….and I still […]

Yes, offering flexible working hours is a fantastic initiative for those organisations and job roles where it is an option. I am particularly passionate about organisations ensuring that staff work hours are managed appropriately, to avoid the inevitable burn out. However, what about those organisations or job roles where flexible working hours just don’t work. […]