Welcome back to the Peer Suite Agenda, your weekly briefing on what matters for your career, network, and next move.

Inside This Edition:

• From the blog: The email habit undercutting your authority at work and how tracking your wins can support your career progression
• On our radar: David Hockney at the Serpentine, a podcast on negotiating your worth, a book pushing back on the confidence gap, and yoga nidra for real rest
• Resources: A free course on communicating and influencing at work
• RSVP to events: Our next Networking Morning at The Roof Gardens in September, and express interest in the Breakfast Club series

🎨 IN THE FRAME David Hockney: A Year in Normandie at Serpentine North is free and running until 23 August. The exhibit shows a frieze of iPad paintings tracking a year through the changing Normandy seasons, alongside a handful of new portraits and still lifes made specifically for the show.

🎧 PRESS PLAY The Strategic Salary Series, hosted by advertising and tech leader Lucy Daramola, is built around one theme, women negotiating what they are actually worth. Each episode pairs her with a senior leader or industry name to talk through how they asked for more, what actually moved the number, and the mistakes most of us make before the conversation even starts.

📚 ON THE SHELF The Confidence Myth by IMD professor Ginka Toegel pushes back hard on the idea that women simply lack confidence at work, arguing the research does not support it and that the real problem is how competence gets recognised in the first place. She works through gaslighting, difficult conversations and the specific moments confidence gets read as arrogance in a woman and ambition in a man.

💷 THE HOLD THAT WASN'T QUITE A HOLD The Bank of England kept rates at 3.75 per cent last Thursday, but three members voted to raise them instead, the most hawkish split of the year, with energy prices behind the concern. The vote suggests the committee is less convinced a cut is coming than markets had assumed.

🧘 REAL REST Yoga nidra is having a moment for a good reason. A meta-analysis published this year covering more than five thousand participants found it measurably lowers stress, anxiety and cortisol, and none of it requires anything more strenuous than lying still. A twenty-minute guided recording on Insight Timer or YouTube is enough to try and see if it's for you.

Communicate With More Authority

The University of Law's Influencing and Communication Skills for Managers, delivered through FutureLearn, explores improving communication in the workplace. Over three weeks, at around three hours a week, it covers the specific techniques for communicating clearly and influencing as a manager.

That is everything for this week. Enjoy the week ahead!

Warmly,

Rebecca

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