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How to Become a Lifelong Learner
We humans are always learning. Ever since our brains develop enough, every single experience teaches us something new. Today, in this complicated world where everything is changing all the time, learning from your own life experiences might become a little redundant....
How to Let Purpose and Passion Find You
A lot of people get confused with the concepts of living your passion versus your purpose. There are those who substitute their purpose for their passion and over time, this misconception messes with their lives and their careers. We all want to live passionately and...
How to Develop and Maintain a Positive Attitude
We read despairing worldwide headlines on an almost hourly basis. We’ve heard of livelihoods and lives being lost and being stuck at home for over a year. There is a general dread of the most horrifying virus that through mutations may never come to an end. It is...
How to Get Real about Your Potential
Getting real with yourself and the kind of person you are takes a lot of courage and determination. It is not always easy to muster up the courage and the boldness to confront the reality about yourself. “Getting real takes a lot of guts and the ability to be...
How to Be Successful without Sacrifice
No pain no gain. We’ve all heard this saying and we’ve been sold on the idea that it is true. Is it really true that you cannot achieve success without sacrifice? This is something that most people go through in their lives without ever finding any answers on how to...
How to Sharpen Your Intuition to Make Better Decisions
Intuition can be described as something that helps one make decisions from instinctive feelings rather than conscious reasoning. There are some people who have what is often referred to as an inner voice, that guides them about what to do and when to do it. That...
Leading a Balanced Life Enables Your Success in Business
If you love what you do, you will never work a day in your life. There are many who take pride in waking up at 4am to get a jump start on their workday, and working till very late at night, they get little sleep and often say “I’ll rest when I die”. Is this living a...
How to Be a Motivational Leader
If you are the leader of an organization, it is mostly understood that it is your responsibility to motivate employees and other people on your team to do the best they can. Is it really your responsively to motivate people? I will argue that the priority of a leader...
How to Develop Empathy as a Leader
Some people think of empathy in leadership as a weakness. Some believe it to be a weakness even as a virtue. Empathy is a right-brain activity, which instigates people to think that it is a discipline associated with being touchy-feely. However, empathy is currency,...
How to Become More Approachable as a Leader
You can’t expect everyone to be receptive to you, but one of the most important traits of a leader is to be approachable. If you want to ensure that your reputation amongst your peers and the people you lead is stellar, you have to be an approachable person; someone...
How to Be Authentic as a Leader
Everyone has dreams, aspirations and ambitions. Although these differ from person to person, there comes a time in every person’s life when we begin to expect for our aspirations to become reality. Sometimes our aspirations are truly ours, and other times they are...
How a Culture of Warmth Enables Innovation
Creativity and the innovative problem-solving abilities of employees should be fostered from the inside. While manifesting ideas require a lot of structure and a high degree of adherence to deadlines, a truly innovative organization provides its employee enough room...
Autonomy and Ownership Enable Engaged Employees
Employees who are disengaged cause losses to companies in the long run. The cumulative revenue impact across companies can add up to $500 billion every single year. As a result of loss of efficiency, companies around the world are actively searching ways to create...
How to Create Trust by Setting People Free
While several nations are celebrating their independence from foreign rule every year, the same cannot be said for the superimposition of various factors on people in workplaces. Employees also deserve freedom and independence from the command-and-control structures...
How to Apply Innovation to Customer Success
A lot has changed in the customer service space in the past 20 years. Few businesses use to pay attention to the quality of their customer service. They spent more time and resources on things that could bring them revenue. Businesses also didn’t pay much attention to...
How Innovation Marketing Helps Disruptors Launch New Products
Innovation marketing is a discipline that encompasses activities and novel processes to introduce and deliver entirely new products. This includes research into the needs of customers, concept and prototype tests with customers, and developing plans on how to market...
How AI can Deliver Sales Innovation
We often speak about innovation as it relates to design, products, services, and people strategies. Innovation in the sphere of sales and marketing is probably the greatest opportunity of our time in any industry. Salespeople are always racking their brains for newer...
Can Innovation in Design Thinking Help Solve Today’s Problems?
Many scientists of the past were right when they predicted that we won’t be able to solve the problems of the future with the same kind of thinking of the past. With the rapid changes that society is going through every day, the methods we have been using to deal with...
Why Employees with High Emotional Intelligence Thrive
Employers look for certain characteristics in potential employees. They primarily look for dependability, sincerity, teamwork, general intelligence, willingness to learn, and ability to adapt. Among many essential qualities, emotional intelligence is a must if you...
Do You Have it in You to Be an Empathetic Leader?
Leadership in its true essence is more about helping others than yourself. Empathy means the ability to understand the needs of those around you. Empathy is an essential quality of an effective leader. As a leader, you must be aware of what those who have chosen to...
How To Help Your Team Manage Pressure
The weight of pressure is an inborn piece of work culture. Each of us faces pressure regardless of position, profile, title, insight, or sexual orientation. Steady pressure can cause us to fail to remember that others around us may be experiencing similar...
How Innovation Can Help Companies Be Successful During Difficult Times
Every company at one point in time will face difficult circumstances. It can become difficult to serve customers and stay ahead of the competition. While it may seem to be an impossible task to make it through difficult times, there is still one aspect that can drive...
Can Entrepreneurship Lead To Self-Realization?
Self-realization is a term historically associated with having a family or traveling the world, but it truly means empowering yourself to bring about real change in people’s lives. As an entrepreneur you get the opportunity to create something of value for the world....
How to Move on to What’s Next After Hitting Rock Bottom
We have all been in a place at some point in our lives where we felt as if we hit rock bottom. Still, we survived. Despite thinking it wasn’t possible at the time, we still made it through. This year has been full of unexpected turns, and it has pushed a lot of us...
Managing Change During Times of Uncertainty
Unplanned circumstances this year have drastically altered our personal and professional life. The changes that we have gone through so far in 2020 have left us overwhelmed. Some of us have lost loved ones while others have lost their livelihood. We are perpetually...
How to Become a Manifesting Machine
Have you recently lost a job or suffered personal loss? Learning to become a manifesting machine might be just what you need right now. People talk about manifestation a lot. Manifesting your dream life, job, relationship, and every other thing. Often many people...
How Being Grounded Makes You a Better Leader
Can climbing the corporate ladder have a positive or negative effect on your personality and how you work? Being a part of the corporate world, one can get sucked into enjoying titles and very lucrative positions, and the focus on success can end up with many of us...
How Meditation Principles Can Improve Communication
Communication is the building block of relationships. This includes your self-talk and how you communicate with those around you. “How we connect with ourselves defines our behavior and bond with the people we love.“ You should enjoy the relationships you form as you...
How One Smile Can Change the World
It is one thing to put on a great smile in front of everybody and say you are doing great but realize there is a deeper more genuine smile that we often miss out on. We are so busy with the ways of the world around us that we can easily forget what a genuine smile...
How to Turn Unfortunate Circumstances Into Opportunities
This year has been tough on everyone around the world. People have suffered losses, both physical and financial. Many people have seen unfortunate circumstances in their lives with things spiraling out of their control. One might have been struck with an illness, or...
How Leaders can Break Free of the Fear of Criticism
If someone tries to offer you feedback, how open are you to accept it? How do you think you will react? Do you immediately get defensive, anticipating critical feedback, thinking up of justifications? Don’t worry if this happens to you. Most of us do not welcome...
How to Trade in Weak Love for Strong Love
Every human being on this planet spends considerable time searching for love. Today is the era of speed dating, matchmaking, online dating, and every other modality you can think of. It’s no longer a question of being able to find love, the issue is more often than...
How to Lessen Anxiety and Stress at Work
Almost all of us have felt anxious and stressed in the workplace at one time or the other. There may be some important presentations coming up, high-impact decisions, or interpersonal conflicts that could trigger possible anxiety in the office. However, anxiety...
How to Make an Organization More Adaptable
Adaptability is the key to an organization’s ability to react effectively to unexpected business conditions. Almost every organization plans on how to operate when business conditions are predictable, but the key to surviving the long term is to plan effectively how...
How to Convert Feedback Into Leadership Enhancement
Organizations are spending millions to setup feedback channels like email, social platforms, and follow-up programs, in order to create a better work environment. Still, the words “feedback” often make us cringe as we immediately adopt a defensive posture....
How to Lean in To Empower Your Team
Organizations are shifting from the conventional authoritarian leadership model to more empowered workers. This transition requires a complete behavioral change from top to bottom of any organization. Empowerment is not about taking your hands off to let employees...
How Leaders can Facilitate Conflict Resolution
Conflict at work can either fuel or disrupt the momentum of an organization. When teams are working in a hectic and tense environment, it gives rise to disagreements and unnecessary arguments. Managing conflict can become challenging, especially for leaders who are...
How to Enable Organizational Success without Micromanagement
An effective leader can achieve goals through influence instead of forced compliance. Amazing lessons in leadership can be learned by stepping up to lead in a volunteer organization. When you are leading a team in a volunteer situation you have no leverage. No one is...
How to Create Positive Impact as a Company
The success of every business has always mostly been measured by the amount of money that it makes. The focus of leadership, company goals, and market position are all mostly tied up around making money. However, there is a social responsibility of every business that...
Enabling Career Paths for Employees is Good for Business
Defining career paths for team members can help you to retain the investment made to nurture great talent in your company. It also helps motivate people to actively contribute to the success of the company. Leaders who don’t take the time to create and execute career...
How to Effectively Manage Change as a Team
Change is a constant phenomenon. Small changes occur every day. In the workplace changes are efficiently catered to by an active leadership environment. From time to time organizations have to adapt to major changes. A leadership change, a reorganization, a merger or...
Becoming A Learning Organization Enables Innovation and Growth
It is rightly said that anyone who stops learning is old, doesn’t matter if they are twenty or eighty. “Anyone who keeps learning stays forever young.” We are living in an age where technologies and economies are transforming the entire workplace. Employees are...
Employee Engagement Is About Building Trust
With the advent of modern communication technology, there has been a significant transformation on people’s expectation for transparency, access to information, and knowledge. Organizations are continuously trying to keep up, and in many cases, catch up. The success...
Satisfied Employees and Customers Translate into Business Success
Most business leaders, irrespective of the market they are in, consistently push to maximize growth, profitability, and value of their business. They devise innovative strategies to strive through economic upheavals and achieve their planned objectives and target....
Embrace Diversity & Inclusion with Intentionality
Diversity at the workplace implies an organization that employs a diverse team of people that directly reflects the society in which it exists and operates. True diversity entails identifying all of the elements that makes us distinctive from one another and...
Effective Leaders Create Highly Engaged Cultures
To have a seat in the corner office and delegate tasks with deadlines is the most commonly perceived image of a boss/leader. The strange thing is that some authority figures do believe that to be true and have accepted it as part of their work culture. This is mainly...
Removing Self-Judgements Can Help End Violence
Nothing will ever change for the better in our world until each of us looks inward, and identifies our own self-violence and conflicts. What we experience outside is a manifestation of the friction that is going on inside each of us. We all spend a considerable amount...
How to Choose a Satisfying Career
You finished school and are now heading towards your professional life. You are exposed to the fact that there are multiple career options available to you, and they are all equally intimidating and exciting at the same time. This equal attraction to many career...
How to Create Effective Mantras for a Successful Career
We have become more and more career oriented as a society. The idea of beating the odds to become an entrepreneur and strive for success is a prevalent message across all media. We are bombarded with encouraging videos, quotes, podcasts, and blogs, telling us to...
How to Convert Failures into Opportunities
For entrepreneurs, the only constants in business are hurdles, challenges, pivots, and often more failures than successes. They face obstacles all day long. From convincing investors to give them money, to struggling to meet payroll. Dealing with failed expensive...
Failures Add to Your Knowledge and Growth
The meaning of learning has changed enormously over recent decades. In the modern world, with every source of knowledge available for everyone, learning can be categorized as acquiring knowledge or discovery and exploration. Discovery and exploration being more...
How to Develop Healthy Stress Management Habits
We all face times in our lives when we feel overwhelmed or unable to cope due to unmanageable pressures. Our body’s response to shattering situations is what we call stress. This is one of the rapidly growing concerns today. The Covid-19 pandemic is having a major...