Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Nalini Dheer from India as a guest contributor for ‘Healthy Recipes for Healthy You’ segment of Womenlines!
Nalini shares a passion for life and loves to express that through food. Nalini has travelled all over India and abroad with her husband who was a doctor in the Indian Army and now retired. Nalini has avidly experienced and learnt the cultures and food across India while travelling across the country as an Army wife. She also recently retired as a kindergarten teacher to enjoy the wonders of being a grandparent!
Nalini is now keen to build a community of like-minded folks with a focus on sumptuous tasty and healthy food through “Oorja”. She would love to share with busy mothers and busy households, the beauty of the dynamic Indian cuisine and western Indian variations. Her endeavour is to make her recipes crisp & concise that is quick to follow and healthy for today’s on the go modern woman.”
Visit – Oorja – https://www.instagram.com/iamoorja/?hl=en
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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome guest contributor Vijayalakshmi Veluchamy, founder, Public speaking mentor @ Jump Out Kids – a venture in building a confident next generation. She is also a Senior Recruitment Consultant by profession. This month Vijaya is sharing insights about how to raise resilient kids-
Resilience is considered as the ability of a substance to spring back to its original shape, that’s its basic definition, so rephrasing it, resilience in human beings is considered the ability of an individual to bounce back from a failure or any difficult life event. The faster the individual can bounce back, the greater his resilience.
The good news is that resilience is a skill and not something that we are born with. We learn it gradually through various life experiences. Children naturally develop resilience as they grow, so as parents all we need to do is to help them nurture and build the skill and make it one of their strongest asset.
Few ways of helping kids build strong resilience:
Emotional Connection:
Vital coping skills are developed well by children when they have at least one strong reliable, loving, caring relationship in the family. Frequent one to one talks, the undivided, uninterrupted, gadget free time spent with children plays an important role in building these emotional connections.
Encouraging healthy risk taking:
Encouraging kids to take up age appropriate, healthy risk activities which has minimal harm when unsuccessful, helps them push their comfort zone. It also helps them internalize the fact that they are strong enough to take up challenges and venture outside their comfort zone.
Avoid jumping in, to resolve their hurdles:
The natural instinct of a parent is to jump in and clear the hurdles of the child. We need to resist this urge because kids need to experience that little discomfort. Also in such situations, instead of advising and giving instant solutions the best way would be to put questions back to them to let them find their own way. Resolving the hurdle with their own solution builds tremendous confidence.
Letting them know its ok to ask for help:
Rugged courageousness is not what we want to build in them, they need to be taught that being brave is knowing when to ask for help. So, we need to strike a balance between letting them do what they can do themselves and be there when help is needed.
Optimism:
Optimism is the most significant characteristic of resilient people. Hence its essential to nurture optimism in kids. When kids take up healthy risks we also need to teach them to embrace failures. Instead of getting caught in the consequence, we help them understand that each experience has some good take away. Resilience is all about getting up, dusting yourself and trying again with a positive mindset.
Being their Model
Most importantly, model resiliency and let them see how you handle sadness, failure and disappointment. Show rather than tell. By doing this, they gradually understand that these feelings are a part of life and can be dealt with gracefully. While nurturing resilience, we always need to keep in mind that the most important ingredient is lots of unconditional love and a strong assurance that we are always there when they need us
Vijayalakshmi Veluchamy
Founder, Public speaking mentor @ Jump Out Kids – a venture in building a confident next generation. I am also a Senior Recruitment Consultant by profession. I love following my dreams and passion as I strongly believe if you can dream it, you can do it.
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Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Ms Ketki Vinayachandra as an ‘Influencer of Health’ at Womenlines panel. Ketki is sharing articles and videos related to excellence in health through Naturopathy at Womenlines. Ketki is a trained Naturopath and she is quite passionate about creating awareness about Naturopathy across the world. In this video, Ketki is sharing about two wonder herbs to boost immunity-
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“As a Naturopathic health practitioner, I strongly believe that we need to invest wisely in our health. The everyday choices we make in terms of our lifestyle and how we treat our body can either create healing or disease. While ageing is inevitable, diseases are not.”
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Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Leadership Agility Coach Yeo Chuen Chuen as an Influencer at Womenlines panel. She is sharing incredible content every month with Womenlines’ readers, which can help them to develop agility mindset. This month Yeo Chuen Chuen is sharing great insights about how to shift the mindset in trying times, in the video shared above!
1. As the world moves towards economic recovery while COVID-19 is still here, let’s begin to construct the new normal.
2. Consider examining matters from the viewpoint of the ‘agiltist’, one of the inner roles that agile leaders nurture.
3. Are there things that are no longer working? Is this the opportunity to make those changes?
4. Stepping forward boldly helps us harvest the greatness in this period of change and converts volatility into opportunities.
Why do Agile Leaders need To Be Master Strategists And Three Ways To Get Started?
Yeo Chuen Chuen is a multiple award-winning executive coach based in Singapore working with clients in both government and private sectors. She has served clients from more than 30 countries across 5 continents since 2013. She has extensive experience working with a wide range of business leaders from various industries, coaching them to develop the agility mindset.Yeo Chuen Chuen was named one of “Asia’s most talented coaching leaders” in 2019 and again named “Top 101 Global Coaching Leaders” and “Women Super Achiever” in 2020.
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Womenlines believes in promoting excellence and it is such a pleasure to promote Royal Culinary Delights straight from Northern India, in the heart of the city of Singapore. As a digital media partner Womenlines is delighted to share about a restaurant AWADH, which is all about royal dining in Orchard Road Singapore-
Foundation of Awadhi Cuisine
The celebrated history of India feels incomplete without mentioning the grandeur of Awadhi cuisine. While the elements were partially derived from the Persian inhabitants and their culinary culture, Awadhi cuisine primarily assumes an independent form, based on the preferences of the Nawabs of Lucknow, previously known as The Awadh region. From a geographical point of view, this cuisine started in the princely city of Lucknow. The provincial Nawabs were food connoisseurs and kept honing the skills of their Khansamas and Bawarchis.
The flamboyant Nawabs of Awadh were quite selective regarding the dietary elements. The major emphasis was always on the inclusion of well-marinated tender meat and vegetables, dry fruits, grains, using a combination of rare herbs and unique spices such as sandalwood and Lazzat-E-Taam, Potli Masala, to name a few. Dishes were cooked on a slow fire for hours to seal in the juices and bring forth their natural flavours.
AWADH brings Lucknow to Singapore
If you wish to savour the grandeur of authentic Lucknawi recipes, hailing from the era of Nawabs, it is time to visit AWADH, in the heart of Orchard Road, in the city of Singapore- which is known as The food paradise of South East Asia.
AWADH chefs are highly skilled and have their historical lineage backing up our claims of perfection. These professionals have grown up under the tutelage of traditional culinary experts, and from a young age have mastered complex cooking techniques such as Dum-Pukht cooking, Ghee Durust Karna, Gile Hikmat, and a hundred ways to cook meats and vegetables.
Eat Like A Royal Nawab
We recommend AWADH for their creamy soups or Shorbas, their wide range of delectable kebabs such as Galawat which melt in the mouth, a host of vegetarian options and unique desserts like Apple Jalebi, which are being introduced for the first time in Singapore, and South East Asia as such.
At AWADH, the chefs temper the dishes with aromatic herbs, spice-infused ghee, and saffron with skill and deftness, using their forefathers’ recipes which are their family heirloom.
This cuisine uses more than 100 spices, all of which are worth their weight in gold! It is a dying art, which the AWADH aims to resuscitate and popularise in the Culinary Hub of Singapore. If you are seeking multi-dimensional gastronomic experience, do consider Awadhi cuisine for its diversified vegetarian and non-vegetarian options. Awadhi cuisine is poetic and fine, akin to a piece of art, which needs to be relished and appreciated in its historical glory and with its legendary tales.
AWADH is also running a Wine-O-Clock Series beginning on 17th July 2020, wherein connoisseurs would experience how fine European Wines are paired with this elegant cuisine, guided by an expert Sommelier. Do call in and make reservations for a Royal Nawabi experience with your family today.
Direct Reservation Line: (65) 6909 9971
Mobile/SMS/WhatsApp: (65) 9385 5337
Online orders: https://order.theawadh.com
AWADH
#01-33H
176 orchard road
The Center Point
Singapore 238843
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Womenlines as a digital media partner takes pleasure to share about the weekly webinar WEEB founded by Andrea Zsapka. Are you a first-time entrepreneur, woman entrepreneur, business owner, community leader, young professional, SME founder? Join the WEEB webinars and the WEEB Global Entrepreneur Elevator Community, become a WEEBER network and learn from the diverse experts we invite every week, grow and elevate others on the way!
Guest First week July:
Dr. Pauline Crawford-Omps
CEO Corporate Heart Int | Author | Changemaker Ambassador of Magical Conversations | Male & Female Real Synergy
Paulines magic topics we touched:
CHAOS:
1) C HALLENGE – identify potential conflicts
2) H ARMONIZE – harness the upbeat spirit inherent to people
3) A TTRACT – engage and retain the best talent.
4) O PTIMIZE – elevate performance.
5) S YNERGIZE – a combined effect that is measurable
Women Navigating to Success in a Man’s World
- Genderdynamics map
- Where are we on the map
- Masculine Female
- Feminine Female
- Masculine Man
- Feminine Man
- How we communicate with the help of the map
Can we create a future together
- No judgement
- No anger
- No Coercion
Link of the next webinar:
Speaker Archanna Gaarg
17th July, 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm SGT
Brand Building & Positioning, Public Relations & Communication Expert
https://www.linkedin.com/events/weebweeklyentrepreneurelevatorw6688731607303548928/
Current out of comfort zone challenge by Andrea Zapska:
I would like to invite you to a Global Online Women Empowerment Summit, help me prove a little drop can create a wave. I am organizing a global online summit for the first time ever, to encourage others to change and to reboot their lives after all that happened by showcasing everyone can have a global impact in today’s digital world. It is a 4 days summit with thought-provoking topics, I already have 25 international experts on board. I am including men in the conversation. Please consider, I would love to have you on board.
For more information:
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Join the WEEB webinars and the WEEB Global Entrepreneur Elevator Community, become a WEEBER network and learn from the diverse experts we invite every week, grow and elevate others on the way–
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Womenlines in collaboration with Solworxs, a business company from India, takes pleasure to present BIZWAY– An Online Presence Platform.
Womenlines (founded by Charu Mehrotra) listed in top 40 women’s online magazines to follow in 2020, is an online magazine promoting excellence in women across the globe so they can become the best version of themselves. Solworxs is a business services company in India, founded by Mani Lakkaraju, wheeling the ideations and helping Entrepreneurs to Transform their ideas in Businesses with support of Mentoring, Technology Advisory, Fund Raising.
As a business owner, start-up owner or any venture owner you all entrepreneurs are always in rush to do so many things- business plan, operations, HR, marketing and now digital marketing is making entrepreneurs overwhelmed. Here comes Bizway which wants to listen to your story from you, what makes you great to do this venture, and how the community gets to benefit from your venture. A very interesting bi-monthly show, especially for entrepreneurs across!
In the second episode, we present the Woow story of Divaspati Bhat from India, who strongly believes in enabling people under HR Transformation through services of his company dbEE Consulting.
Listen to Divaspati’s wow story in his own words in the show above-
Divaspati Bhat, a passionate Human Resource expert is the Director of dbEE Consulting in Bangalore, India!
HR Professional with over 30+ years of experience in delivering strategic HR initiatives in diverse service sectors in the areas of organization structuring, HR strategy, talent and performance management. Divaspati’s Experience in deployment of business strategy through organization design, HR and reward strategy has been incredible.
Divaspati’s venture dbEE Consulting takes care of Design and Implementation of Talent Management Frameworks, Total Reward Strategy and Programs, Performance Management, Organization Development, Structure and defining Operating models, Job Evaluation, Executive Compensation, Performance-based Variable Pay and Incentive Plans, Retention Pay.
dbEE Consulting team consists of integrated individuals responsible for heading all human resources functional initiatives and objectives with the broader business plan and is a primary leader for driving successful change management within the organization drawing on all aspects of HR functional skills (Associate Relations, Labor Relations, Compensation, and Organizational Development) to ensure balanced, strategic decision making.
DB means Delivery Beyond and as Divaspati Bhat explains the paradigm shift, constructive consensus, responsible relationship, self-analysis, leadership enablement and the essence of the story is
Cultivate before harvesting with Positive approach, ability to create more choices, learning to unlearn. The Delivery beyond is a Continuum and its a boon for Entrepreneurs with four levels of learnings starting with Being in Grace (BIG), Being Light In Success Stimulation (BLISS), Be Enabler and Master (BEAM), Be Excellent Entrepreneurs (BEE).
https://www.linkedin.com/in/divaspati-bhat-6b0301104/?originalSubdomain=in
If you are interested to share the story about your venture at Bizway, email urbizway01@gmail.com!
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Womenlines takes pleasure to share about Friska Wirya, Change Management Expert, Leadership and Management Consultant at Fresh by Friska, from Melbourne, as a guest contributor at Womenlines. Check out her article on how to move forward in the “New” world of work with COVID around-
What did COVID reveal about the workplace culture, good and/or bad?
Have you ever felt that the valleys (low not such great times) teach you the lessons mountain tops (business flying high) never could?
A crisis tends to exacerbate and bring out people’s true essences. Organizations are made of people. People can strengthen or erode an organization’s culture by a single action, a single decision, a single word. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a behind the scenes look at organizational cultures – the good, the bad, the ugly.
I have found it is not the organization with the largest balance sheet, the most aggressive marketing plan, nor the biggest quarterly profits… but it is those with the healthiest cultures that emerge stronger after a crisis.
Too many companies bet on a cut-throat, take-no-prisoners culture to drive financial success. There’s an assumption that pressure and stress drive employees to achieve more. What these organizations don’t realize – or ignore altogether – are the hidden costs of an unhealthy culture: stress, disengagement, lack of loyalty.
Research shows that healthcare expenditures at companies with high-pressure cultures are nearly 50% greater than at other organizations, with almost 80% of workplace accidents attributed to stress. Unsurprisingly, disengagement is low when people aren’t happy or find meaning in their work. In studies by the Gallup Organization, disengaged workers have 37% higher absenteeism, 49% more accidents, and 60% more errors and defects. In turn, this results in people leaving, workplace stress caused by unhealthy cultures leads to an increase of almost 50% involuntary turnover.
The coronavirus ‘valley’ has created a moment of truth for every company. Leaders are rightly asking themselves: Are our choices and actions reflecting our culture, purpose, and values that we espouse? We have seen companies with healthy lifestyles enjoy continued and even greater success during this pandemic such as Slack, Culture Amp, and Best Western Hotels.
Culture doesn’t belong to one person, it doesn’t belong to the top leadership group, it’s something to share and co-create with your people. Use this time to reconnect with your purpose and values. When this crisis has passed, and you climb back on the mountaintop, will you look back with pride at how your company responded?
If the answer is no, then change it.
Culture, although intangible and nebulous, can be changed using a structured change management approach:
- Define ‘as is’ culture state – gain a ‘warts and all’ understanding of what the culture is today.
- Define ‘desired’ culture state – explicitly define the culture of tomorrow, what does it look like, feel like?
- Gap analysis and action planning
- Enlist top-down support – is there visible and active advocacy from each area in the business?
- Make the desired culture real – what visible indicators, rituals, symbols and behaviours demonstrate the desired culture? Provide simple Do’s and Don’ts for people to follow.
- Alignment with organizational elements – have we integrated the desired culture to influence how we lead, how we hire, how we develop, how we reward, and how we retain our people?
- Continuous improvement: What culture metrics are relevant and how will we measure them? Are we feeding the results back into the change program to drive cultural alignment? Are we learning from culture leaders within and outside of our industry?
Culture always matters, but it matters now more than ever.
FRISKA WIRYA
Friska Wirya is a Change Management Expert, Leadership and Management Consultant at Fresh by Friska. She has led change programs impacting up to +23,000 people across the seven continents for the biggest names in mining, engineering and technology. A lifelong learner, her effectiveness at managing the people-side of change has proven to be a compelling productivity-boosting strategy.
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Womenlines takes pleasure to welcome Meena Gupta, a beautician by profession from Singapore, as a guest contributor for ‘Healthy Recipes for Healthy You’ segment of Womenlines!
Super healthy baked teatime Multi-Seed Crisps!
These delicious crisps are great for a quick on-the-go snack!
Recipe:
Instant or Rolled Oats: ½ cup
Whole-wheat flour: 1 Tbsp
A mix of Pumpkin/Sunflower: ½ cup
Chia seeds / Flax / Sesame / Kalonji : 3 Tbsp
Salt: ½ Tsp
Water: 80-90 ml
Olive oil: 1 Tbsp
Honey : 4 Tsp
Method:
- Preheat the oven to 160degree C
- Line a baking tray with baking paper and cut out another paper of the same size. Keep one aside
- In a bowl, mix the oats, flour, salt. Mix all the seeds followed by Honey, Olive Oil and Water. Cover the bowl
- Keep aside for 15 minutes
- Take the dough on the butter paper and flatten it to ¼ inch of thickness
- If it feels sticky, oil your hands
- Place the other piece of paper that you had cut earlier on a flat surface (or put it on another baking tray if you have one)
- Carefully turn the cracker onto the new paper.
- Basically, the side that was facing down (the baked side), should now be up
- Transfer this baking paper and cracker to a baking tray and put it back in the oven
- Bake for 10 15 minutes more till the cracker starts to get a golden colour and crisp
Enjoy each and every bite of it!
Myself “Meena Gupta” Beautician by profession! I’m a passionate cook, who loves to experiment & try a variety of dishes.
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Womenlines is delighted to welcome Suddha Subrammaniam as a guest contributor to share her herb garden story at Womenlines. Professionally Suddha is a corporate professional having 17+ years of Global experience in Australia & India, in diverse roles and sectors including Business Unit Head, Project Management, Policy Advocacy and Public Sectors. Personally, Suddha is a nature-loving person who used her stay in her hometown during the lockdown period, creating a beautiful garden space starting from scratch. Read about her experience below-
It has been a decade since I got to spend so much time during Summer in my ancestral home, over three months now. Since the lockdown, my garden has become my happy space where I have potted herbs like Rosemary, Davanam/Maricolunthu, Holy Basil/Krishna Tulasi, Sweet Basil, Mugwort/Masipatri, Mint, Karpooravalli/Oregano, Marjoram/Maruga, Vallarai/Indian Pennywort, Bhringraj/Karisalankanni and Thuthuvalai/Solanum Trilobatum and planted some tropical plants like Pavalamalli/ Night Flowering Jasmine, Panner Pushpam/Beach Gardenia, Night Queen, Parijatham/Gardenia, Ixora, Arali/Nerium, Marudhani/Mehandi.
It has given me immense pleasure to see them spurt grow and flower. Every morning this is my first go-to place to see the new leaves, the first flower in the plants. Most of these herbs are medicinal and can be used for consumption or used to make scrubs and paste for oral application. Most of the flowers from the plants can be given as offerings in the temples.
“Small pleasures give us immense satisfaction and also makes us look forward with excitement and positivity. Learning to take every day as it comes.”
