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Workplace Bullying Survivors - Public Humiliation & Toxic Leadership

I went out for brunch today. I left with a masterclass in toxic leadership. Beautiful venue. Strong reputation. Instagram - worthy branding. And an absolutely shocking reality behind the scenes. Today, I witnessed a manager publicly humiliating and intimidating a female employee in front of customers. A customer complained about a delayed order. Instead of handling the situation professionally, the manager started blaming the employee, sharing personal allegations about her behaviour and even claiming he had deliberately delayed an order to punish her. He then confronted her in the middle of the restaurant, in front of everyone. The irony? She was the ONLY employee who genuinely seemed to care about the customers and made an effort to communicate with us. As someone who has seen the world, with an MBA from Les Roches, and 3 degrees in total, with international expereince across luxury hospitality, commercial and technology environments, I find this behavious unacceptable. And as someone who has personally experienced workplace mobbing (not once), pychological and emotional abuse, this hit particularly close to home. Let's get something straight: → Feedback belongs behind closed doors, NOT in front of 30 customers. → Customer service recovery requires professionalism, NOT public humiliation. → Leadership is about accountability, NOT intimidation. → Employee experience IS customer experience. You can invest millions in branding, marketing and beautiful interiors. But how you treat your employees reveals the REAL culture behind your business. Today reinforced a long-term ambition of mine: combining international business, coaching, somatic approaches and advocacy to eventually build something bigger than myself: an educational and healing platform, a media company talking about the TRUTH. Potentially an institute dedicated to protecting human dignity and addressing workplace abuse, particularly against women. Because nobody should have to sacrifice their mental health, dignity or livelihood just to earn a living. And now I want to hear from YOU. Have you ever experienced workplace mobbing, public humiliation, psychological abuse or intimidation by someone in a position of power? Did anyone protect you? Or were you left to fight for yourself? I'm looking to connect with people willing to share their experiences and participate in interviews as I explore how to turn awareness into meaningful change. My inbox is open. Your story matters. And to every leader reading this: Your job is to lead people. Not to break them. #ToxicLeadership #WorkplaceBullying #HospitalityLeadership #EmployeeExperience #WomenAtWork #Leadership

Couples Who Make People Smile - Everyday Relationship Stories

Yesterday we received a video entry for Ikdhun. If your Ikdhun Mini profile is open to dating, you probably know our third question: What does a great relationship look like to you, and what kind of people are you attracted to? She chose to answer the first part. She said: “My bhaiya and bhabhi.” When her bhabhi was working a low-paying part-time job and looking for something better, her bhaiya would help her finish her data analysis work while also managing things at home. Later, when he didn’t have a job, she supported both of them. And through all of it, she remembers them smiling. I think we need more stories like this. Because when you’re meeting people, getting rejected, getting ghosted, or just having one disappointing conversation after another, it’s very easy to start thinking good relationships don’t exist. They do. And I think we should document them. So we’re starting #IkdhunAmbassadors. If you know a couple whose relationship makes the people around them smile, please tell us about them. They don’t need to be on social media. Maybe they’re too busy living it. :) We don’t care about their jobs, titles, followers, or how impressive they look on paper. We just want to hear about two people who have built something good together including the hard parts and the work it took to get there. And if you are that couple, please write to us too. We’ll invite a couple every week or month, depending on the stories we receive, for a virtual conversation. Maybe hearing more stories like these will make all of us a little more hopeful ❤️

CIWEM Members in East Anglia - Managing Fens Study Day

What a treat to get away from my desk and into a room (and then out into a glorious nature reserve) with some of the people we make The Environment for, about and with. The CIWEM East Anglian branch and Rivers & Coastal Group were kind enough to invite me to their joint ‘Managing the Fens’ study day at WWT Welney. My head is now swimming with the fascinating history, intimidating challenges and exciting opportunities for environmental management in this region. I knew a little bit before I went in, having written about wet farming for The Environment a while back - I’m now really looking forward to diving back in with my own research as I write about the study day for our digital newsletter (watch this space). As well as having my curiousity sparked by the content of the study day (thanks to Charlotte Nunns (FCIWEM CWEM CEnv) Selena Peters, FCIWEM C.WEM MSc Annissa D. & Stephanie Horner for putting together a brilliant programme of talks), meeting some of the attendees, including plenty of CIWEM members, was a real highlight. As a person in comms in this sector, I talk a lot about the value of bringing people together, but it often feels quite abstract because I do most of my work by myself - being part of the study day yesterday made it all much more tangible. If you were there too and we didn’t manage to chat, do connect here and drop me a line. I’m already cooking up some articles for The Environment based on conversations I had yesterday, and there’s certainly scope for more.

Copywriters & Brand Voice Experts - Anti-AI Literary Counterculture

#journorequest: Seeking insights on the anti-AI literary counterculture There have been countless stories discussing AI-generated copy and all the tells that come with it over the last year or so. Em-dashes have become the most infamous punctuation point, for all the wrong reasons; the “it’s not x, it’s y” sentence structure has had editors tearing their hair out; whenever I see qualifying phrases and rhetorical devices like, “And honestly?”, “quietly becoming…”, “genuinely…”, I immediately switch off and assume (maybe unfairly) that everything preceding or after the tell has also been lazily generated by a chatbot. People have become so conscious of coming across as AI that they’re going to bizarre lengths to prove that there’s a human behind the copy. There are reported cases of people deliberately leaving typos in job applications, professionals sending emails with intentional lower-case subject lines or small grammar slip-ups, dating app users doing the same in their bios and prompts, people signing off messages with “sent from my iPhone” (even if they weren’t). If people are this acutely aware of not sounding like AI in their own communications, you can bet they’re looking out for it in all the media and comms they engage with. There’s research to back up this phenomenon: Boston Consulting Group found that 69% of surveyed bosses prefer job applications with minor mistakes to reassure them that they were written without AI, and anecdotal A/B testing has found that Fortune 500 CEOs tend to open emails with lowercase, misspelt subject lines at a far higher rate. As a writer and editor, this has been on my mind a lot of late. How do you differentiate yourself and find your voice in this current moment without over-correcting? Do people and brands now have to do extra work to prove they've actually authored a piece of work or copy? So, I’m writing a report for insights agency Canvas8 on this very topic, exploring its cultural and commercial implications. If you have branding or advertising expertise (particularly copywriters), are adept at crafting tone of voice for brands or have an interesting insight into the bizarre phenomenon of this anti-AI counter-style, let me know in the comments below or via DM. I’m looking for expert perspectives ASAP to include in my reporting. Thanks! #AI #editorial #copywriting #brandvoice #journalism #branding #toneofvoice #insights

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Fintech Experts in Francophone Africa - Consolidation & Regulation

Fintech Espresso #21 is out ☕ Consolidation, not creation, is African fintech's story this fortnight: capital, capability and regulation are being absorbed into fewer hands. 🟢 Ventures Platform Fundl founder Kola A. closed an oversubscribed $84M Fund II, nearly double the size of Fund I — early-stage capital is consolidating into fewer, larger allocators. [Grindstone] launched a R500M fund targeting the gap between seed and Series A, turning a funding gap into its own asset class. 🟡 Paystack folded Allawee (now part of Paystack)'s technology into its own infrastructure instead of keeping the brand — capability is being absorbed, not built from scratch. Creditchek acquired Algosystems invest to add core-banking software to its fintech layer, moving upstream into the software banks run on. 🔴 SEC Nigeria proposed rules that follow the customer, not the company — a foreign platform now enters the regulatory perimeter simply by having Nigerian users. FRA Egypt authorised four firms spanning microfinance, mortgages, funds and private-equity platforms — digital licensing now spreads across verticals instead of staying fintech-only. My take: early-stage capital keeps gathering into fewer, larger allocators. Companies increasingly buy the capability instead of building it. Regulators keep widening their perimeter instead of narrowing categories. Is your business still confined to the category you were licensed under? We are looking for experts and contributors in fintech, payments, financial inclusion and regulation across francophone Africa. Add your profile to the skills mapping: https://lnkd.in/e9E7FmY3 #FintechEspresso #AfricaFintech #DigitalFinance #FintechRegulation #PaymentInfrastructure

Non-Military Trauma Veterans - Rebuilding Lives & Storytelling

Now it’s 1:25 am, and I want to see how long it will take to pour out what’s left on my chest. This is it for me. For at least twelve years, I’m dedicating this season to my passion for telling stories. Years ago, I would blog my life away on Facebook. My private accounts are closed because, for some odd reason, I’m held to a standard I never agreed to meet anyone’s false expectations of me. Put it this way… I know trauma firsthand, and the shit is mind-blowing. Having to pick up pieces of your life to mend yourself back together, just for more pieces to shatter before even healing from the last life-altering experience. I know trauma. Then my diagnosis didn’t help. Trauma. So now instead of falling asleep from boredom on dating apps, I’m on this app to share myself. How I feel about people being more invested in me than my work. And if I’m not interesting enough, then my work is moot. I tell the men that I’m an author. Then share my new site, camilledford.com, that I absolutely love. Thanks, Charlotte. They’ll pledge to purchase Articles of Commitment: The Bylaws of Modern Romance. Then they learn about Karma. 🤣 But my job title is Editor-in-Chief. My face turns beet red when they ask what my specialty is. I explain that I’m a journalist, own a magazine, and am literally winging it as I go. Why? Because people in the industry aren’t interested in mentoring me. They’re just watching to see if I’ll fail. The men grow intrigued. Then I tell them the current site is veteranexcellemce.org. They instantly go to it. It never fails when they ask, “Are you a veteran?” Hell yeah, I’m a veteran. Just not military. I’m a veteran at experiencing and overcoming trauma. That’s not the conversation to have with perfect strangers, though. Honestly, all I know is that I wanted my own platform to write stories. I’m not into the lifestyles of the rich and famous. I’m not into trends. I can’t stand politics. There’s a population that’s underrepresented and deserves to tell their own stories instead of having them told about them. Of all the reasons I have to start the magazine, the main reason is because I want people to tell their own stories. Not the polished version. Not the version somebody else thinks is more marketable. Not the version that makes everybody else comfortable. Their story. I know what it feels like to have pieces of your life shattered and then have to figure out who you are with what’s left. I know what it feels like to rebuild and then have life come along and knock something else loose. I’m so curious about veterans. I want to know what they survived. What they built. What they lost. What they learned. What they never told anybody. I want to know what makes them get up and keep going. That’s what this season of my life is about. I’m giving myself at least twelve years to do this. To write. To publish. To ask better questions. To tell stories that deserve to be told. At 1:44 in the morning, that’s all I really know.

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