Enabling senior design professionals to be more influential within their organisations. ✨ Author of this human and design character, published by BIS Publishers.📚
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This Human by Melis Senova
Enabling senior design professionals to be more influential within their organisations. ✨ Author of this human and design character, published by BIS Publishers.📚
"There’s no checklist for respect. But we know what it feels like. And we know when it’s gone." When leaders talk about what they expect from their team, “respect” is almost always at the top of the list. But what does it actually mean? And where does it really come from? In this week’s article, we explore the idea that respect isn’t something you can demand, and it’s not always something you can earn. It’s something that emerges. Like trust. Like culture. Like all the things that live in the...
"These skills are not the icing on the cake. They are the cake." We call them soft skills, but they’re anything but soft. These are the human skills; the ones that help us listen deeply, navigate tension, build trust, and get things done with style and grace. In this week’s article, we explore why it’s time to stop treating these skills as optional. In a world of AI, rapid change, and rising complexity, human skills are what truly set us apart. Empathy, communication, adaptability; these...
"We cannot lead what we are disconnected from. And we cannot connect unless we slow down enough to feel." We often treat leadership as a cerebral exercise: charts, KPIs, strategy decks. But what if our most profound insights come not from our heads, but from our hearts? This week's article invites us to reconnect with the heart, not just as a metaphor, but as a genuine organ of perception. True leadership arises from attunement, presence, and embodied awareness. When we slow down and listen...