These days, I often feel excited about our great Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion community – Inclusive Space as I am reviewing 2024. It gives me extra motivation to feel the positive changes we are making at our headquarters towards inclusion. We have organized many activities with Inclusive Space Community, such as cultural celebrations, Inclusive Bar…
As you might remember from my last article (Math Formula for People Leadership – Serap Özçalıcı (serapozcalici.com), I have come up with mathematical formula for engaging leadership. In my next articles, I would like to double click on all the parameters why and how I decided to add them into formula and why I have…
I decided to share some of my humble experiences regarding leadership for 3 purposes. Firstly, I really miss being a direct people leader and I would like to keep my invaluable memories fresh and note down my leadership learnings. Secondly, I have seen fantastic outcomes when a leader truly engages people’s hearts and minds to…
Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius is a Stoic philosopher, who lived in the 2nd Century. When I read his book “Meditations”, I was deeply impressed by its first section “Debts and Lessons”. I thought, if I write a book someday, I must make its opening exactly like this. I wrote my first article in my blog…
Last time when I was reflecting about whether I am closer to Tao or Confucius way in life, I ended my article at quite controversial (You can find my first article about this here:https://www.serapozcalici.com/which-one-are-you-closer-to-confucius-or-tao-way-1-2/) At this second part of my article, I would like to be more specific. I would like to share some tips…
I had an idea. Interesting enough that I came up with this idea when I was watching a series about meditation and while I was supposed to be meditating. I could not help but use this time for an action rather than just focusing on my breath and it turned into planning my next article…
In the first part of this article we focused on ‘knowing ourselves.’ Then, in the second part, we have seen some ways to prepare an action plan by using methods like the SWOT analysis and TOWS matrix to provide us a guideline on the way to improve ourselves. In this third article, I will share…
I love the Ted Talk of Shawn Achor’s: “The Happy Secret to Better Work”. He is talking about how “outliers” are making a difference and that we continuously try to bring everyone on the norm group. I believe these outliers are the ones that dares to come as they are, rather than suppressing their own…
Çalışanların Moralini Yükseltmek İçin Pratik ve Temel Bir Araç. Bütün liderler sürekli olarak yönetim becerilerini geliştirmeye çalışırlar. Bugüne kadarki tecrübelerim, beni daha ileriye taşıyan geri bildirimlerin çoğunlukla astlarımdan geldiğini gösteriyor. İtiraf etmeliyim ki bu geri bildirimleri kabul etmem her zaman kolay olmuyor. Fakat mutlaka bu fikirleri dikkatle dinler ve üzerlerinde düşünmek için zaman ayırmaya çalışırım.…
“Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart give yourself to it.” Buddha I have briefly explained the importance of “finding meaning at work” in my article “Add Value to Your Workday”. Actually, I think that, this is the most important factor to feel engaged at work. Seeing the bigger…