Every corporation strives for success. To achieve this, strong business strategies and tools become handy; however, a strong company culture plays a pivotal role. At the very core of it lies the concept of BELONGING—the key component for fostering inclusion, psychological safety, and employee engagement. Why is it so crucial? The meaning of Belonging The […]
Focus on results not only goals
As 2024 kicked off everyone is bursting with New Year resolutions and new goals. I sometimes wonder – does everyone think about the desired results when setting up their goals? It is often thought that goals and results are synonyms except they are not. While goals represent our objectives and desired outcome, results are actual […]
What’s your relationship with responsibility?
It is interesting to observe human relationship with responsibility. If I asked you “are you a responsible person”? I trust your answer would be “yes”. However, if I was more specific and my question would be “do you always take responsibility for your thoughts, emotions, words and actions?” would your answer remain the same? What […]
Inconveniences of Growth Mindset
Nowadays we hear more and more about the importance and impact of mindsets. The conclusions of the scientists are pretty clear: “the total effect of anything is a combines product of what you are actually doing and what you think about what you are doing” (Dr. Alia Crum). While this is a fantastic news, allowing […]
Mindful corporation
Quite often I hear people complaining that corporation is one of the worst places to be if you are interested in mindfulness, work-life balance and inner peace. Many still see corporation as the rat race and believe that in order to live fulfilling life and be truly happy one should get as far from the […]
Feed-back or Feed-Forward
Employee performance reviews are still part of majority organizations’ life. In the middle and at the end of the calendar or financial year we all have conversations with our managers about the things we did well and the ones that we could do better – a nicely layered feedback sandwich of which most of employees […]
Are managers equipped to manage diverse teams?
With diversity equity and inclusion (DEI) being in the spotlight we spend a lot of time discussing how we can be more inclusive and ensure that diversity and inclusive behaviour are on the right levels in the organization. While a lot of attention has been dedicated to attracting new talent, I am thinking: do we […]
Why do we support bullies at work?
There are different ways to manage people. Some managers use motivation and inspiration as main tools, others are strong in giving clear instructions and asking questions but there still exist those who manage through fear. That’s right, even in diverse and people-oriented organizations authoritarian management style is yet to be gone. Apparently there still are […]
It all starts with the purpose
We all have our reasons why we do what we do. Some of us want just to move forward with our daily activities without thinking too much about the bigger purpose, others, however, have a clear north star that they follow. Many of us are tired of meaningless existence and deadly corporate environments. We are […]
Call for action!
2022 started with loads of great initiatives and goals focused on gender balanced and diversity, equity and inclusion in general. Governments adopt laws, companies start various challenges and engagements to increase people’s awareness and encourage them to expand the knowledge not only on business processes but also on topics that are important to entire humankind […]