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WEEKLY POSTS TO HELP YOU TAKE YOUR NEXT BOLD STEP
Why Working Harder Won’t Get You Noticed
3 Things that Hold Women Back from Self-Promotion and What to Do About It “I’m a server god!” exclaimed my 14-year-old daughter after volleyball practice one evening. “I got every single one over the net and I’m awesome!” My husband and I chuckled at how quickly the...
Workday Wisdom: Top 5 Best Industries for Women in the Workplace
This month we're launching a new style of blog post called "Workday Wisdom." These posts are meant to be more factual and research-based with tangible tips and tools to advance your career and build your business. I believe we need to tackle building our careers and...
Want to Uncover What’s Next for YOU?
Here are the 5 Key Steps you need to take. When we first landed in New Zealand many years ago, for a six-month sabbatical away from our everyday, busy lives, I thought I’d died and gone to heaven. There was no busywork to keep me occupied, I would have time to connect...
What does it mean to be “burnt out” anyway?
How connection, rest and exercise can shift you from feeling burnt out to shining brightly “Oh Susan, you’re always so busy,” my mother says to me. I’ve heard this my whole life – usually from people who watch as I run circles around those who appear to have a calmer...
Meet Susan
Hi! I’m Susan. Leadership Coach. PR Strategist. Community Builder. Family Adventurer. I love life. Love my family. Love my work and love to travel. And I’ve never been very good at taking “no” for an answer. I’ve never been very good at sitting back and making choices about what I wanted to spend my time on, because quite frankly, I wanted it all. How could I have a fulfilling career and personal life too, without giving anything up?
These are choices that women, in particular, seem to have to make every day. How can we have a fulfilling career and a dynamic family life? How can we figure out what should be our priorities so what’s most important to us doesn’t suffer? How can we admit – out loud – that sometimes our achievements at work do mean more to us than our family, while often we will choose family over work? How can we build successful careers in the face of equally achieving spouses, children and big life choices?
It’s called Balance. It’s called figuring out our priorities, confidently living our lives, creating careers and building businesses that serve us. It’s called having it all at the same time. Is it possible? I’m here to tell you that YES it is!
Meet Susan. She’s a career-loving, family-centred, community-building Mom who would love to coach you to your truest answers to help you build that career, that business, that life that you know is possible for you.
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PUBLIC RELATIONS STRATEGY
Strategic Public Relations connects businesses and organizations to their clients, customers and investors by building effective relationships with them. A good communications and public relations strategy will ensure an organization’s goals are being met, in part, because they have built effective ways to communicate with their audiences.
Susan formed Elford Communications in early 2003, shortly after resigning from her corporate communications role in a major international energy company, in an effort to achieve more work/life balance for her young family while still meeting her desire to build effective communication programs for organizations so that their voices could be heard and their strengths celebrated.
Today, Elford Communications focuses its 25 years of experience on serving the small business owner and not-for-profit organization as Susan and her team mentors, teaches and leads its clients to creating public relations programs that showcase their strengths and build their reputations.
Are you an organization that wants to be heard? Learn how you can benefit from Elford Communications’ suite of services.
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