When it comes to creating effective business teams and supportive workplace cultures, diversity and inclusion plays a vital role. At Calmer, we focus on three core values: education, connection, and community. Diversity and inclusion is involved across all three, which is why we’re delighted to be talking with Zeinab Ali this week to understand how we can all benefit from investing in diversity and inclusion strategies.
In order to find the perfect mentor, it’s important to understand what you wish to gain from their mentorship in the first place.
In any scenario, a mentor can provide guidance, support, and the opportunity to accelerate your learning immensely. This can be in a professional scenario, such as a business mentor, or for a more focused form of study, such as learning to code. At Calmer, we focus on providing support to entrepreneurs, and professional teams, taking a more holistic approach when it comes to navigating towards business success in a healthy, happy way.
Whatever your motivations in finding a mentor, we hope this guide will prove useful in finding the perfect person to support you.
In the past, motivating employees to increase productivity often meant promising them an end-of-year bonus and hoping they’d keep it in mind as they worked. This kind of motivation can be beneficial under certain circumstances, but in most cases there are more positive and sustainable ways to develop a healthy and productive team.
With some of the world’s largest businesses encouraging their staff to practice mindfulness, it seems our workplaces are beginning to appreciate that happy minds make for happy businesses.
But what does mindfulness actually mean? And how can you add it into your routine, to support your work, and equally support your life? Find out in this guide.
“Vulnerability is the core of shame and fear and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.” - Brené Brown, Research Professor in Social Work.
In today’s post, we explore the benefits of being vulnerable, as well as the ways you can start letting go of perfectionism, and start following a more contented, authentic path.
