Category: workplace wellbeing

• Who’s in your sleigh? A reflection for a smoother ride.

  

  We don’t always get to choose who we we work with, or even live with, but we can choose to be open, accepting and thankful. In my family, we are all very different, but we are all Fords. And we always be: diversity is a reality, but inclusion is a choice.

  Claire Maria Ford

  December 27, 2022

  connecting, corporate culture, diversity and inclusion, human resources, industrial relations, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  corporate culture, diversity, family, inclusion, professional development, wellbeing, workplace relations, workplace welling

• One Crisis, Three Questions

  

  Going into Week 8 of confinement, how’s the morale? I don’t know for you, but for me it’s been such a roller-coaster of emotions! Sometimes, I feel short-tempered and irritable (especially when watching the news or reading other people’s reactions to government decisions). Then I swing to frustration at not being able to go running…

  Claire Maria Ford

  May 1, 2020

  confinement, covid19, growth mindset, new world, personal development, self-care, teaching, Uncategorized, workplace wellbeing

  celebrations, confinement, learning, mental health, online teaching, pema chodron, quanrantine, reflections, teachers, teaching; esl, transitions

• Clarity in confinement?

  

  It’s important to say things as they are. Love is the opposite of avoidance. And so, it is important to be able to say things as they are, beginning with our fears. (Boris Sirbey) I read that piece of wisdom this morning in a LinkedIn article entitled Le hamster épris de ciel bleu (The Hamster…

  Claire Maria Ford

  April 10, 2020

  Boris Sirbey, connecting, covid19, Culture, esl, failure, family, family life, goal-setting, growth, growth mindset, initiative, leadership, Mindfulness, motivation, personal development, progress, quarantine, responsibility, self-care, stress management, teaching, workplace wellbeing

  brené brown