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Communication is LEADERSHIP
Until recently, the body has been the missing link in business, where the main focus has always been on intellectual knowledge and hard skills.
The HR Research Institute found that more than 85% agreed soft skills, such as communication, executive presence, team building and psychological safety, are more important to long-term success, and delivers a higher ROI than hard skills.
Developing an embodied toolkit of skills improves the individuals verbal and non-verbal communication, executive presence, emotional intelligence, personal resilience, develops psychological safety, ability to deal with conflict and adaptable to solve problems.
Investing in training of soft skills offers a greater ROI, driving loyalty as well as employee satisfaction and retention. Wise for long-term business success.
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This week, I am delighted to spotlight a great mentor of mine - even if she does not know it - Olivia Scofield. A master of presentation and speaking. She is a communication expert and founder of Spectacular Speakers.
Having met Olivia through my wish to progress my own speaking power, at First Berlin Toastmaster (a public speaking group that meets every 1st and 3rd Wednesday of the month), as a fellow Brit in Berlin I immediately gravitated towards her and was subsequently knocked off my feet when she spoke.
I admire Olivia’s direct nature and candid, no-bullshit-fluff in her pursuit to bring out the best in everyone she meets. Offering clear and helpful feedback with achievable steps from her wealth of experience and knowledge. She has laser focus and the spirit of the jaguar inside her. It’s so epic.
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If it’s not good enough, build it better….
This weeks #fridayfounders did exactly that. Welcome to the spotlight Emily McDonnell, Founder of Staycation Collection.
Mixing slow travel, beautiful locations, storytelling of the world on your doorstep and the wish to connect with real people, the physical earth and to your local surroundings - Staycation Collection’s list of Germany’s properties and experiences is pure GOLD DUST!
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Even though It’s been months since my first body-oriented coaching session, the experience is as fresh as wet paint brush strokes on a canvas. Why? Because as my body discovered new sensations through this body-oriented coaching, my mind documented the process through words and pictures.
I found Ben J Munday through Medium a couple of months back. He read my article about women in leadership and told me how he works to empower women professionally and personally through somatic coaching.
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Will you share a good Love Is story?
Chrissie Lam, founder & CEO of Love Is Project
One of the first that inspired me was a girl from Northern Serbia, she said “love is proportional to your will’ and I love that, the stronger your will, the bigger your love.
Here's one little bracelet band and it's grown to a huge international brand that creates jobs for thousands. If you want it and you're hungry for it, you’re going to make sure it happens.
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#fridayfounders spotlight is Kathi Hoffmann, founder of THE GOOD RUN.
A curator of sustainable and socially responsible sport brands big on ethical values of fairness, accountability, inclusion and diversity. Kathi means business! She is in motion - it’s hard to hold her back.
When I caught up with Kathi a few weeks back about International Women's Day (IWD), she looked me straight in the eye and passionately sparked about ACTION! While an advocate for equality for all, she is an feminist activist within her running.
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For this week’s Friday founders spotlight we go a little deeper with Sales Copy expert Elena Connolly. As the owner of 23wisewords, I decided to call her up and find out what her secret sauce is.
As soon as you meet El, as she prefers to be called - it’s less formal - you are welcomed with both professional wisdom and warmth. El is the real deal. She is organised, professional and savvy in this fascinating text realm. Plus being really fun to hang out with - not to mention a mum to two young boys and a loving wife.
Sensitivity: the Feminine YIN Strength to Lead With.
With more women graduating universities and PhD programs than men, the lack of talent within business is NOT the issue. So why is this talent under represented in higher positions within business?
A major inequality faced by women in the office is that of the double bind. If a professional woman is too pushy or direct, they are disliked. But if they are too weak and passive then they will be walked all over. Either way, they dont get the promotions they rightful deserve.
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Rebecca is a force to be reckoned with. Having presented to over 1 million people at the age of 24, Rebecca is fearless and speaks vehemently about her passions of a better human future.
In a time of massive cultural and societal change we need leaders to speak openly and honestly. In fact, Rebecca through her Institute for Tech Life Balance speaks freely regarding topics around education, politics, economy and technology. Believing it is beyond this binary narrative of ‘profit or planet’ we move into a sustainable system that puts people plus planet alongside prosperity, for all.
First Lesson of Embodied Leadership
The first thing you notice of great leaders, male or female, is when they enter a room they fill the space with their presence and being.
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Let me introduce Jen Walpole and her work as a registered nutritional therapist specialising in fertility nutrition and women's health. Striving through her early years of setting up her own thing, business is now kicking and literally baby-booming!
Her positive and personalised approach focuses on the individual as a whole, delivering bespoke nutrition and lifestyle support.
Embrace the Benefits of Stress?
Embrace the Benefits of Stress
The public health message is that stress is harmful to our health, productivity, relationships, cognition and fertility: in fact all areas of our lives, even sleep. We have been fostered an insidious generalisation and over simplified understanding that stress is outrightly damaging to our physical and mental health. “Stress = bad”
But really, things are quite different
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When meeting Leoni you are welcomed with warmth and honesty.
Leoni runs her business courageously. She talks openly about self-doubt from her self-confessed inner critic and continues to lean into the discomfort because her cause for helping others is greater than anything that holds her back.
Tired, Overwhelmed and Exhausted? Time to Adjust those Boundaries.
Women habitually underestimate their abilities and miss out on opportunities to take on challenges for growth and self actualisation.
Safety, confidence and self-worth sit at the core of belief systems and narratives that run through both personal and professional environments. Social and cultural conditioning has entrained women to stay small.
How we use the body to break down 3 big blocks women experience.
Women habitually underestimate their abilities and miss out on opportunities to take on challenges for growth and self actualisation.
Safety, confidence and self-worth sit at the core of belief systems and narratives that run through both personal and professional environments. Social and cultural conditioning has entrained women to stay small.
5 Body-Centred Tricks to Survive THOSE Awful Christmas Questions
Isn’t Christmas meant to be a time of merriment? Families converging to spend quality time celebrating the most important things, eating and receiving cool presents?
But the reality is quite different for many going back to see their folks during the festive period.
Who is Driving the Boat? Internal Vs External Locus
When considering this concept of internal vs external locus the famous words of John Lennon come to mind, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans”
Now, while it might not fit perfectly, the consideration of how ‘active’ or ‘passive’ we are as individuals towards the course of our life is captured, while also considering how aware are we in doing so?
The Female Recession? Not through choice.
On the fight towards more balanced workforces through equal opportunities for women this is a sad statistic birthing the term, ‘Female Recession’. The importance of supporting women right now cannot be overstated.
The pandemic has impacted all of us, globally, yet when it comes to our professional lives it has impacted women more than men, and even more so women of colour.
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