Recently the Harvard Business Review reported that a study conducted in France showed that just 15 minutes of meditation helps reduce “cost-sunk bias” and make better business decisions. This study shows one of the biggest benefits of meditation as a business practice. Meditation can help foster a clear mind you so can make smart business decisions. Here are six other ways meditation supports decision-making in business: [Read more…]

Meditation is not typically thought of as a business practice. However, encouraging mindfulness with meditation in your company can benefit everyone no matter their career level. Meditation has so many practical uses in the business space and introducing meditation as part of the daily routine can dramatically improve the productivity among employees. Here are just some of the ways the practice of meditation can foster the success of everyone in your company. [Read more…]

Everyone talks about the importance of achieving a work/life balance. This is because many entrepreneurs often sacrifice their life and self-care for work. Most of the time the advice surrounding achieving the perfect work/life balance come down to viewing the two as separate. However, spiritual entrepreneurs are not concerned about a work/life balance, as they are considered one in the same. Spiritual entrepreneurs empower their work with their spiritual selves, so work is ultimately seen as a method to practice their values and live their best life. Thus, spiritual entrepreneurs always have a work/life balance. Rather than thinking about ways to achieve a work/life balance in the traditional sense, here are some ways to empower your work with your spiritual life so that you never have to worry about sacrificing one for the other: [Read more…]

Mindfulness is incredibly useful in business. Every decision made has a direct impact on others and the success of a company. Fostering a culture of mindfulness helps everyone understand how their decisions, no matter their career level makes an impact. In order to encourage mindfulness, you need to actively foster it as part of your larger corporate culture. This can be a bit tricky since mindfulness is truly a personal function, so it can’t really just be a product of directives like other aspects of your culture. Instead, it takes a conscious effort on the part of compassionate leaders to implement. Here are five ways of fostering mindfulness in your company. [Read more…]

One of the most common questions asked during interviews is “What is your leadership style?” Most interviewees answer something like “consultative,” “situational,” or “persuasive.” Each of these leadership styles is important in different industries and on different rungs of the corporate ladder. However, over my career, I’ve found the most effective and versatile leadership style in any career is compassionate leadership. Though compassion is rarely a trait we think about as valued in the hyper-competitive world of business, compassionate leadership improves staff engagement, employee productivity, and profitability. Here are the five most important traits of compassion leadership and how they are truly transformative in business. [Read more…]

Technalink is a business that made the decision, once it went into operation, to adhere to the principles of compassionate leadership. We decided that we didn’t want to be a company that controlled our employees, but rather worked with them and became a new family of professionals that would work together for our clients, to make sure they improved their technology and finances, and became better companies themselves as result. [Read more…]

When you decide to become an entrepreneur, there are many things that drive you. These drivers can often be definitive to your success. Often times we think of entrepreneurship simply as enterprising, a way to make more money and accumulate personal wealth. However, many of us have a higher calling that leads us to entrepreneurship. We are spiritual entrepreneurs and see incredible success from our own drivers. How do you know though if you are a spiritual entrepreneur? Here are some tell tale signs. [Read more…]

Technalink is very proud and honored to embrace people of different ethnicities, genders, cultures and religious beliefs as valuable members of our team. As part of our commitment to spiritual entrepreneurship, we recognize there is something of value in everyone, and that it is the differences that a person can bring that can help everyone to grow and become stronger. [Read more…]