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A MODEL TO SUPPORT YOUR EMPLOYEES IN THE NEW NORMAL By Archana Shetty COVID 2019 pandemic has presented myriad challenges to businesses globally. It has impacted people like never before. This report states that nearly 7 in 10 workers claim the coronavirus pandemic is the most stressful time of their professional career; even more than major events like 9/11 and the 2008 Great Recession, according to mental health provider Ginger. Every demographic including adults over the age of 55, rated COVID-19 as the most stressful time. Gallup reports that levels of stress and worry has surpassed those recorded in past years. Compared with 2019, daily worry increased from 37% to 60% among the full-time working population. Daily stress increased from 48% to 65%. Forbes reports that one-third of adults ages 18 to 29 are in the high distress group, compared with just 15% of adults 65 and older. I found it surprising that pandemic stress is significantly higher in young people. Studies have shown th...

How We Can Optimise Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing By Dave Sinclair First, start small. Choose one small thing that will allow you to move forward. Too often we get overwhelmed because we think we have to do everything at once. What happened when I had a list of 300 to-do things? I did nothing. So I start with the smallest of steps to make it less daunting. Tiny habits combined create leaps. Often when we refer to wellness, we assume that we are talking about physical wellbeing. But one can be physically very healthy but still be unwell, emotionally or mentally. What are the steps we can take to cultivate optimal wellness in all areas of our life; to develop Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Well-being? As a part of our series about “How We Can Cultivate Our Mental, Physical, Emotional, & Spiritual Wellbeing”, I had the pleasure of interviewing Dave Sinclair. Dave Sinclair was once the co-owner of a multinational corporation. He worked fifteen...

How to Create Motivational and Rewarding Staff Evaluations By Stephen Karbaron Constructive evaluations are a powerful way to build a loyal, motivated team, who deliver the results you want, whilst working on their own initiative, feeling valued and appreciated. Here is how I was able to achieve this when I went to work in Moscow for the leading Optical retailer in Russia. In 2005 I was offered the opportunity to be part of the senior management team that would take Lensmaster Opticians from 12 stores to 87 stores in 6 years, before selling out to the second largest optical retailer in the World. This was an exciting time to be in Russia, with a fast-growing economy and a business landscape that was changing almost daily. It was also a completely different business culture to the one I'd grown up with in the UK. At the end of 2008 I was asked to tell my team they would not get their usual annual bonus due to the World economic downturn. I was not thrilled at the prospect of sending...

I Am In Love With Sustainable Businesses by Stephen Karbaron Wake-up Wednesdays - a weekly look at ethical businesses In November 2020 I was introduced to Eoin McQuone, as someone who had a passion, like me, for making the World a better place. Eoin believes we are acting as if the planet is an infinite and endlessly compliant resource and that this simply is not the case. Unless we change our approach our economy, our businesses, and our way of life will fail. However, Eoin sees an opportunity to re-engineer the economy and our businesses to enable us to live within the means of the planetary bank account, its “natural capital”, without dangerously depleting it and even to regenerate the bank of natural capital. Constraints are the mother of creativity and this strikes Eoin as being a fantastic opportunity to re-invent our businesses and create long-term sustainable growth. In February 2020 Eoin launched Go Climate Positive as a way to encourage businesses to re-invent themselves and ...

Management Lessons from Thirukkural by Ashok Bhatia Thirukkural (திருக்குறள்), also known as the Kural, is a classic Tamil ‘sangam’ (3rd century BC to 4th century AD) literature composition. It has 1,330 couplets or ‘kurals’. It was authored by the renowned poet Thiruvalluvar. The Thirukkural is one of the most important works in the Tamil language. This is reflected in some of the other names by which the text is given by such as ‘Tamil marai’ (Tamil Vedas); ‘poyyamozhi’ (words that never fail); and ‘Deiva nool’ (divine text). Just like ‘Ramayana’, ‘Mahabharata’, ‘Bhagavad-Gita’ and other scriptures, Thirukkural is also replete with words of wisdom. It is simple and contains profound messages. Thirukkural has 133 chapters, each containing 10 couplets. Broadly speaking, all the 133 chapters can be divided into three sections: Righteousness, Wealth and Love. In the text below, the serial number of each couplet appears on the top, followed by its Tamil text and then by its near-literal t...