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UCLA’s Spring Protests: Does Free Speech Mean Free Reign in a Respectful Society?

By Ryan Meshanko|2024-06-27T14:43:17-04:00May 23rd, 2024|Categories: Respect Tips|Tags: beliefs, change management, Diversity, emotions, Gen Z, generations, Inclusion, Mindfulness, self-awareness|

In the spring of 2020, my senior year of high school was upended entirely by the COVID-19 pandemic. As I’m sure many remember, nobody knew during those first few days just how long we’d be stuck away from public spaces. A quick two-week break turned into three, then five weeks, then a year, and so on. We slowly returned to normal, but not until my entire graduating class had missed the chance for any kind of meaningful commencement ceremony.

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How to Breathe in the Eye of the Storm: Mindfulness Through the Gen Z Lens

By Ryan Meshanko|2024-06-27T14:43:34-04:00May 1st, 2024|Categories: Change Management|Tags: beliefs, change management, Diversity, emotions, Gen Z, generations, Inclusion, Mindfulness, self-awareness|

For a period of about a week last spring, I thought that my entire life was falling apart. A particularly challenging organic chemistry final was mere days away, and the studying was starting to burn me out. Add a large dose of normal college FOMO, romantic woes, worries about the geopolitical state of the world at large and my brain all but quit on me.

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Self-Awareness – A Critical Leadership Competency

By Erica Pinsky|2017-01-13T13:41:42-05:00August 30th, 2016|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: leadership, self-awareness|

Many of us focus on what we need to do to be successful, rather than who we need to be to be successful. Who we need to be speaks directly to our values, as well as our level of self-awareness about our behaviours and whether or not we are willing to take responsibility for those behaviours. Getting curious about the nature of our thoughts is the point of departure on the journey to self-awareness. It is the first step on the path to personal responsibility and empowerment.

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The Art of Being Wrong

By Paul Meshanko|2019-06-18T21:30:36-04:00March 9th, 2016|Categories: Respectful Workplace|Tags: empathy, respectful communication, self-awareness|

Every day brings a myriad of opportunities to increase our awareness, wisdom and, ultimately, effectiveness. The problem is that most of us walk right past these opportunities because of a little glitch in our mental "software"... the need to be right. In this article, Paul Meshanko discusses how to go through life with an open mind and the intent to take in new information objectively by "learning to be wrong more often."