Did you know that your workspace could be making you more anxious or stressed? With stress in the equation, soulful leadership is made more difficult, and you don’t want your physical place of business to inadvertently cause you more stress than what is necessary. A few tips for relaxing your workspace are: [Read more…]

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…]