Collaborative Career Conversations
With a pinch of your passion and an inch of your inspiration ...could you help young people get an insight to your career pathway?
The value of workplace encounters, led by you, through what I have termed ‘Collaborative Careers Conversations’ could go a long way to connecting, mentoring and inspiring our next generation. It may stimulate entrepreneurism for some and offer others alternative pathways to seeking something diverse or unique. The outcome of your discretionary effort will have merit for at least one individual.
What I would ask you and your networks to consider is having at least one, ‘Collaborative Careers Conversation’ with a local or connected school during 2023. It could be as informal as sharing your career story, a company presentation, an interactive workshop or any platform that can offer a lens into the world of potential careers to a young mind.
As an advocate for assisting our next generation, nurturing future talent and being a proactive member of the London Enterprise Advisor Network, I volunteer as a CIPD Enterprise Advisor at Harlington School in Hayes Middlesex; working in collaboration with the school’s leadership team to develop a careers strategy that is contributing to “building the workforce of the future”. Within British Airways I volunteer as one of the airline's Inspire ambassadors supporting the local community's education and employability initiatives.
Could you volunteer some of your time, passion and inspiration too?
Neena Speding
MSc Psychology & Neuroscience of Mental Health
MSc Psychological Sciences
MBPsS
Chartered MCIPD,
First class BSc (Hons) HRM, PGCE
At epoché I am passionate about well-being and psychology beyond just what I do.
So Friday 4th Feb 2023 is World Cancer Day but for many Cancer day is every day
Among the hustle and bustle of trying to get a socially distanced seat at a recent neuroscience seminar, I overheard a remark:
“We should consider designing learning interventions for the brain and not the learning style”
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I recently received a communication that was signed ‘Mx’ from a colleague who had previously signed communications as ‘Mr’. This prompted me to ask some questions and do some research; for me it is not about labelling and compartmentalising, it is about being informed, inclusive and respectful.
I constantly seek research and findings that effectively and meaningfully link academia and the real world. A recent example that sparked my imagination was discovering the works of Elizabeth Blackburn a Nobel prize winning, molecular biologist.
World Mental Health Day.
A collaboration between Neena Speding (epoché.com) &
Dominic Ciambrone (theshoesurgeon.com)
So, here’s two questions:
Would you frequent a commercial cannabis establishment if you were in a place where it was legalised?
Would you partake in any Cannabis consumption with a client/colleague of that region?
The relationship between mindfulness and stress is well documented. Our awareness of stress and the negative impact it has on ours and other lives is becoming more perceptible. Mindfulness, as a stress reducing therapy, is becoming increasingly used in clinical practice and its impetus in and outside the workplace is gaining steady traction.
I recently watched this insightful workplace perspective from CNN on mental ill-health and wanted to share. The perspective is sadly an increasing reality.