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It’s no hidden fact that there’s a lot to do to level the playing field for women in work. From better employee perks that support women who are mothers, to reducing the gender pay gap until there is none to even talk about, and let’s not get going on the challenge of getting a better balance of women in senior positions & greater diversity of women.

This International Women’s Day we wanted to spend the day celebrating the amazing work that’s being done by organisations across Scotland and the UK. To celebrate the wonder women who make Connect Three the awesome business that it is. To join with an inspirational global organisation to talk everything #BalanceForBetter, and to inspire women in the workplace and beyond to believe that there is a brighter tomorrow.

Kicking-off our International Women’s Day with Lenovo, we hosted an inspiring workshop to explore and engage some of the Head Office team in Scotland to reflect on ways in which they could balance their professional and personal lives for better. Organisations which value their staff will always strive to support the celebration of equality within the workplace and it was fantastic to be able to help lead that process in honour of International Women’s Day 2019.

In fact, we left so inspired by the pledges made by the changemakers in the room that we’ve pulled them together into our top hacks for the month.

Do more things for fun.

Spend more time doing things that just make you happy.

Stop wanting to take control of everything.

Stop making excuses.

Use my day better.

Participate more.

These pledges honestly made us grin from ear to ear and we’re hop, skip and jumping into the rest of International Women’s Month with a renewed sense of how valuable workshops like these are for empowering woman and men alike.

On the other side of Glasgow some of our team came together to host the latest workshop in our Scottish Enterprise, Managing People for Growth programme – a development series for supervisors and managers ready to supercharge their careers and those of their team – and it seemed like the perfect way to close off a day of celebrating all of the amazing women in business throughout Scotland.

However your business is celebrating the theme of #BalanceForBetter this week, month and year we encourage you to involve your staff and have them partake in some self-reflection and pledge setting.

And of course we couldn’t finish without saying a huge Connect Three thanks to the women in our team who make what we do one of the best jobs in the world. So to Barbara, Fiona, Susan, Shona, Tina, Katy, Laura, and Vicky; thank you for being so awesome.