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…
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…
For all leaders, it is a continuous effort to increase their leadership qualifications. In my experience, the feedback that improves me most generally comes from my subordinates. I have to admit that sometimes it is not easy for me to accept those feedbacks. However, I always pay attention and try to spare some time to…
“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…
In the first part of this article, I wrote about some methods that can help us to understand ourselves better and to determine our improvement points and strengths in a more accurate way. Consequently, we managed to collect some critical information about who we are. Now, we have to combine what we have learned, to…
Most of us complain about time, which passes too quickly. Sometimes we cannot understand how fast the time has flown… And occasionally we even want it to pass by even quicker, we wait for the evenings, weekends or holidays. Some people even wait for their retirements to realize their biggest dreams, like fishing by the…
What statistics show is that life of a man is approximately 70 years. We have to realize that it is not long enough to decide to waste it, and we must remember this fact all through our lives. Full time employees use most of the daytime for working. So it is especially significant for them…