Archives for 2017

At Technalink, we often talk about soulful leadership in the context of running your own business. But if you’re really interested in maintaining a spiritual lifestyle, you have to remember, spirituality isn’t something that’s only for professional work. In fact, in many respects, spirituality is one of the most important requirements for peo-ple that are making one of the biggest commitments of their lives; deciding to stay home, and look after that home and family. And we salute every woman or man that chooses to undertake this responsibility. [Read more…]

There is pretty widespread misconception that the world we live in is simple and binary. Things are either mascu-line, or feminine, business, or creative, scientific, or spiritual. It means that people who may be thinking about exploring spiritual entrepreneurship must somehow sacrifice technology or even business competitiveness be-cause of a spiritual agenda. [Read more…]

For women entrepreneurs, the 21st century has certainly opened up a lot of opportunities. It may not be a world of total sexual and racial equality yet, but at Technalink, we believe that we can one day hit that goal, as long as we continue to commit ourselves to doing better, more ethical business. [Read more…]

The decision to be a compassionate leader always sounds—on paper—like nothing but a win-win situation. If you’re showing more kindness and compassion to your employees, this is going to be reflected both in the work culture that you cultivate and in the reputation that your business garners as a result. But where do you draw the line when it comes to compassion in your leadership and decision making skills? This next question is something only each individual person can answer for themselves, but where, for example, does compassion fit in with someone applying for a job that has a criminal record? [Read more…]

If you’ve decided that you’d like to try to encourage more mindfulness both in and out of work, one great tech-nique for this is meditation. Useful tools in meditation are mala prayer beads, which are a tactile aid in keeping track of your meditation progress, but there are so many beads to choose from! Which one is the right one for you? [Read more…]

We put a lot of our focus here at Technalink on being women in business, balancing business acumen with spir-itual awareness, and finding ways to make a profit coincide with being compassionate and empathetic. What we don’t often discuss here is the personality types of the women in business themselves! Everyone knows that people who are outgoing and extroverted often get ahead when it comes to networking, negotiating and busi-ness interactions. But does that mean that even if you’re talented, have a head for business, but are an introvert you should stay out of this line of work? [Read more…]

Empathy is the ability to understand and connect with the feelings of another person, and it’s a necessary skill to learn when working collaboratively in a leadership position or as an employee. At Techanlink, we use and encourage empathy in various ways within the workplace, and we know the benefit that active empathy brings to your overall professional atmosphere. A few ways you can use active empathy in the workplace today, whether to generally improve the office environment or as part of your soulful leadership, are: [Read more…]

Leadership has some old-school rules that have been followed for as long as anyone remembers. Unfortunately, many of these rules are toxic to spiritual entrepreneurship, and today’s compassionate leader may not find them relevant to their style of leading. These leadership rules are changing, however, and we at Technalink like this new direction they’re going in. The new rules of leadership focus less on control and toughness, and more on collaboration and empathy, allowing today’s leaders to truly get the best out of the talent they have working for them.

The first old rule has to do with who is chosen to be in a leadership position, and it states that leaders are picked based on their company tenure and business performance. While there is nothing particularly wrong with prioritizing performance and experience, it doesn’t embrace the real traits that translate to great leadership. The new rule doesn’t completely disregard these characteristics, but instead of placing them in the top priority spot, it focuses on choosing leaders based on creativity, adaptability, and a talent for inspiring people and leading teams.

The second old rule that is being replaced is the one that states that leaders should be trained using professional training in a structured environment. There is nothing wrong with professional training, but you’re not going to get quite as much out of it when compared to real-world experiences. Using simulations, projects, and hands-on learning, a leader is not just taught, but molded, into a person who can handle any situation that may come their way with creative critical thinking skills.

Another old rule is that leaders lead organizations and businesses, but the future is replacing the impersonal with the personal. Rather than viewing leaders as those who are leading a business, they’re viewed as those who lead teams and people, effectively humanizing the role and putting a collaborative spin on what leadership is. For spiritual entrepreneurship, this focus on the human aspect of leadership is a wonderful thing, and it will create real results using a collaborative effort between leaders and the people they lead.

Lastly, the rule that expects leaders to be in the know is falling by the wayside in favor of a new rule that states that leaders should be able to find out. The assumption that a leader has all the answers may seem comforting in a control leadership style, but the truth of the matter is that no one can know it all. Rather than the belief that the leader knows already, the new belief states that the leader will learn, find out, and come up with creative new solutions even to age-old problems.