Resources

An interview with Joyce Bao, Senior Product Manager at Fitbit about her experience participating in the Search Inside Yourself program within her organization.

Our mission at SIYLI is to make mindfulness and emotional intelligence practical and accessible. One of the ways we have been working to fulfill that mission is through community projects in Parkland, Florida, Flint, Michigan, Bhutan and more. Learn about our community projects and what is to come. 

When we experience prolonged periods of stress, sleeplessness or overwhelm, we are less productive and more irritable. Rest and recovery are not only essential to building resilience and well-being but rest is also a key ingredient to achieving sustainable high-performance at work and in life. Find out how to integrate rest into your daily life and optimize your longer recovery periods.

Trust is a key ingredient in the success of any team. Building and maintaining trust in a virtual team presents unique challenges as well as opportunities for deeper connection and growth. Find out strategies for developing psychological safety and building a culture of trust within your team.

For some managers and leaders, it can be a challenge to keep a team engaged and focused. And in a crisis environment, it can be even more difficult to keep employees on task, while also meeting them with care.

Crisis response requires a thoughtful approach and leaders who employ these seven Emotional Intelligence traits will face challenges with confidence and resilience.

With COVID-19 spreading around the globe, the world as we know it has fundamentally shifted. We’re seeing unprecedented levels of stress, overwhelm, isolation and disconnection. It is imperative that we increase our emotional intelligence to manage our own feelings and reactions, and learn to relate to colleagues’ emotions in productive ways, building our capacity for calm, focus and resilience and paving the way to connection and creativity. Emotional Intelligence has always been an important skill, but is all the more necessary right now and our need to increase our EQ is all the more acute.

Resilience is not simply about bouncing back from adversity; it’s about dealing with disruptive forces while adapting with integrity in response to changing circumstances, and thriving. It is a skill that can be deliberately cultivated and developed in the face of chronic negative stress and constantly increasing demands, complexity and change.

As we face this unprecedented moment and global pandemic and upheaval, our thoughts and hearts go out to everyone who is impacted. SIYLI has put together free resources and additional ways to support you in fostering connection with yourself and your community.

In honor of International Women’s Day, we created a list of some of our favorite books and articles written by leading women in mindfulness, wisdom, leadership and emotional intelligence.