Enabling senior design professionals to be more influential within their organisations. ✨ Author of this human and design character, published by BIS Publishers.📚
🫀 In an AI world, it's the leaders who feel that have the edge
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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.📚
"The thing people are protecting is the very thing that most needs to be seen, met, and cared for." We often interpret guardedness as disinterest or ego. But beneath the surface, it’s usually something else: fear. A quiet, embodied strategy that says “don’t let too much in.” In this week’s article, we explore what happens when we start to see guardedness not as a fixed part of our character, but as a creative adjustment, a once-useful protection that may now be keeping connection at bay. And...
"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...