Peer Coaching At Your Business

Do you have peer coaching offered at your business to help employees build friendships?  The reason I ask is because even before the COVID-19 pandemic, many organizations faced a difficult challenge they were unequipped to solve: increasing isolation and loneliness among their staff.

Amid the current challenges, there are steps organizations can take to facilitate and encourage the formation of work relationships. One of the key methods for empowerment is peer coaching, a process in which two colleagues help each other reflect on experiences, offer support, build skills, and match their work to their sense of purpose.

It has been reported that the loss of work friendships is likely one reason so many people are choosing to leave their jobs.

To build the kinds of relationships that strengthen an organization—especially in an era of remote and hybrid work—businesses must be proactive.  As the authors of the article for strategy+business says, "By giving employees the tools to develop relationships on their own, businesses can reap tremendous benefits—and build a stronger long-term future."

Own Your Power

Want to fully honor your ambitions and reach your business goals?  The author states:

As women entrepreneurs, don't we at least want to be successful? Don't we also want to achieve our goals? Having some power sounds good, too. Isn't that why we became entrepreneurs — to have success, be empowered and achieve our goals — just like our male counterparts?

Here's some powerful advice for new women entrepreneurs desire to become multimillion dollar business owners.

How Leaders Can Navigate Difficult Situations

In business, leaders are facing a perfect storm.  Talent wars, actual war, the pandemic’s disruption to business, and inflation are just some of the issues troubling businesses today.

So who can help executives navigate these difficult situations? The author, Brad Broken, says:

I’ve come to the conclusion that having a second-in-command on a team, no matter the team’s size, was a defining feature of a mission’s success.

Read on.

50-Fastest: Congratulations SNT Biotech Founder Shital Daftari!

Congratulations to all the winners of the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned/Led Companies of 2022 from the Women Presidents Organization (JP Morgan Chase & Co.).

In particular we like to congratulate our WPO Chicago Chapter I member, Shital Daftari, founder and President of SNT Biotech (DBA Saris and Things) for her No. 6 position in the list out of 50.

Shital is an inspiration to us all with her drive, smarts, fast-growth mindset, and willingness to be a great leader.

From all your WPO sisters in Chicago, we salute you and wish you continued success.

We All Want Our Lives Back

A worthy goal! And there are so many ways to pursue it.

Rather than pushing to develop and deploy new technologies and approaches, many people are still focused on questioning the wearing of masks, a debate that intensified recently as a federal judge struck down the Biden administration’s mask mandate, freeing airplane, train, bus, and other public transportation passengers to travel unmasked.

Read on to determine whether we are putting our lives at risk and how to protect yourself and your people going forward.