Levelling the playing field for disadvantaged young people - Viewpoint Viewpoint careers advice blog

Levelling the playing field for disadvantaged young people - Viewpoint My social mobility charity, Leadership Through Sport Business (LTSB), recruits bright young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, with an additional focus on diversity and gender equality. After an intensive boot camp designed to prepare them for the workplace, we provide accountancy apprenticeships in major firms. I set up LTSB in 2012, and we’re now placing our sixth intake of 100 young people in London, Birmingham, Liverpool and Manchester. However, it’s not the sort of thing that just appears overnight! My moment of clarity I began to realise there was a need for this kind of thing back in the 1990s. I was living in the US and working as CEO of inter-dealer brokers, Tradition Financial Services. While the US was leading the world in many things at the time, plenty still needed to be done in the interim in creating opportunities for inner-city young people. I’d had some contact with representatives at the State Department about putting together some data and helping get this message out, but nothing materialised. They seemed to think they had it in hand. A major influence on my thinking, and on my life, was 9/11. Tradition had offices near the World Trade Center, and like many in the finance world I lost many friends and colleagues in the attack. After the initial horror of the attack fades, you begin to think about what motivates people to do something like this, and you realise society’s responsibility to engage young people. Whether it’s radicalisation or more everyday threats of drugs and crime, nurturing ambitions and providing meaningful work are our best defences against the vulnerable being turned towards violence, or just having their abilities wasted. I love sport, which has long been used as a distraction from bad choices, and I wondered whether we could combine the appeal of sport with the worth of paid, meaningful work. It was important that this intervention was targeted â€" and I was clear on what type of young people could use this help most. Building partnerships There’s a politically invisible class of young people. They aren’t going to jail, and are unlikely to become benefit-dependent. They’re bright, talented, but trapped in Uber-ised, gig-economy underemployment. No sick pay, no holiday pay, no guarantee of hours, no ability to plan for the future. These young people don’t represent a cost to society in the way it’s traditionally, easily measured â€" the pounds they draw in benefits, or that are spent on imprisonment. But the cost in wasted potential, in lost engagement with society, and in the resentment of a system that does not value every member â€" that cost is huge. So I started looking around, knowing I was going to escape the city. I met with Premier League football clubs and realised their foundations were the best mechanism to deliver sports leadership skills.   I began partnerships with further education colleges to deliver Association of Accounting Technicians qualifications. Then it suddenly became real. My friends (now Lord) Jim O’Neill at Goldman Sachs and Michael Spencer of ICAP match-funded my start-up. We had an extraordinarily successful pilot with the Tottenham Hotspur Foundation and the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, which proved the concept. Then growth: to West Ham and Chelsea in London, and Aston Villa, Manchester City and Liverpool nationally. In six years we’ve gone from just me, working the phone and persuading my network to employ our young people, to a staff of 11 who have worked with over 300 young people and profoundly changed their lives for the better. At which point â€" how can you stop? LTSB can only transform lives with the support of firms committed to social mobility. If you’d like to get involved, contact Cat Wyard (cat.wyard@leadershipthroughsport.org) for more details

The Unending Search for Work-Life Balance

The Unending Search for Work-Life Balance Endless Search for Worklife Balance The requirement for improving work-life balance is gazing us in the face; it's up front. Evidence? As per an ongoing Gallup survey, 70 percent of representatives have looked at work or are effectively separated â€" costing U.S. organizations over $300 billion yearly. Withdrawal is an unmistakable sign that something is out of equalization! Is it true that you are on the chase for a new position? While assessing bosses, health advantages should assume a key job in your dynamic procedure. Check out potential bosses' wellbeing contributions â€" most strikingly, programs that emphasis on supporting you over all parts of your life, both at work and at home. Extraordinary organizations need their representatives to be sound and drawn in both inside and outside the workplace. These organizations care about their representatives' prosperity and show it with vigorous working environment wellbeing projects and advantages like solid alternatives in the cafeteria, free gathering exercise classes in the corporate rec center, even took care of time to chip in inside the network, and â€" perhaps the best of all â€" chilly, hard money to get and remain sound. David Coppin, President, Client Services and Member Engagement, VirginPulse.com, some portion of Sir Richard Branson's celebrated Virgin Group, says that, By focusing on all parts of life, including your psychological, physical, social and money related wellbeing, both at work and home, you'll improve your complete personal satisfaction and augment your potential in your activity. Savvy organizations know this, and shrewd occupation searchers do, as well. As indicated by our own exploration, 87 percent of representatives accept hearty work environment wellbeing programs are central while picking a work environment. As of late, with the blast of consistently on innovation, applications and gadgets that assist us with completing our occupations paying little mind to our area, there's a narrowing gap among work and home life. David exhorts that, Driving businesses should assist representatives with improving their all out personal satisfaction by not just contribution heavenly advantages and work environment health programs, yet by stretching out those advantages to their loved ones. Consolidate the individuals who matter most in their life so your representatives have a persuasive emotionally supportive network past their friends at work. We should accept wellness for instance of an extraordinary health advantage. As indicated by the Framingham Heart Study, you have a 57 percent more noteworthy possibility of getting more fit when practicing and eating less junk food with a companion or relative than when you go only it. With inventive wellbeing programs that incorporate your loved ones, you can challenge each other to sound rivalries, similar to who takes the most steps or who eats the most foods grown from the ground every week. Branson's auxiliary, Virgin Pulse, unequivocally accepts the connection between organizations that give powerful working environment wellbeing programs and continued representative commitment is solid. 80% of representatives at organizations with vigorous wellbeing and health programs feel their boss thinks about their prosperity, as per our own exploration, affirms Coppin. So what can organizations expect over the long haul? The advantage of less days off, less wellbeing occurrences, and something significantly progressively significant: positive criticism from representatives who feel their commitments at work have a more noteworthy by and large effect. What's more, back to you, work searchers or profession changers. Factor health benefits into your pursuit of employment today and you'll discover more prominent wellbeing tomorrow.

Why We Decided to Hire A Doula - Cubicle Chic

Our Birth Story/Why We Decided to Hire A Doula - Cubicle Chic Our Birth Story/Why We Decided to Hire A Doula Pregnancy January 11, 2019 1 CommentIt's a sort of adoration I never knew was conceivable. How would I be able to however? I essentially wasn't competent. I wasn't competent until Sophia was brought into the world around two months back… As expected, new parent life hasn't been all peaches and cream, and those of you who are veteran guardians are presumably gesturing your head now. In any case, it's been an encounter I wouldn't exchange for whatever else. I anticipated a ton of the terrible. Be that as it may, what I was unable to envision was the adoration and fondness that would rise and how it would help us through the long and late evenings, the fifth diaper change in succession, and the torment related with baby blues recuperation and breastfeeding. Now, in run of the mill Cubicle Chic design, I am here to share a few DETAILS of what unfolded two months prior. Additionally, I need to talk a tad regarding why we chose to employ a doula and how that changed our work and convey ance experience to improve things, particularly when we contrast stories and companions. In the event that you are thinking about to enlist a doula, read on!Why We Decided To Hire A DoulaI knew really from the get-go in my pregnancy that I was going to recruit a doula. I've had companions that conceived an offspring with the assistance of a doula, I've additionally perused numerous books (one of them being my preferred pregnancy book, Your Pregnancy Your Way) that suggest having a doula. My own way of thinking is that on the off chance that you can pay to have a specialist stroll with you as you experience something new and troublesome, is there any valid reason why you wouldn't? Individuals recruit fitness coaches to get fit, life mentors to live better… doulas are basically birth mentors and I certainly needed a mentor with me as I set out on the work and conveyance venture. I perused on www.DoulaMatch.net for a decent time and talked with 4 doulas before I chose to work with Ch ristal Quick (Radiant Heart Doula Services). We felt that Christal had the correct blend of adaptability and certainty with regards to the manner in which a doula would add to a family's introduction to the world experience. She has a compassionate and understanding vibe about her yet it was additionally evident that she's an accomplished master, and would have the option to give immovable guidance in the midst of hardship. Be that as it may, with everything taken into account, I would sum up our reasons we recruited a doula as follows: Pain Management: I needed to work normally for as long as could be expected under the circumstances. This implied I'd manage compressions with no torment the board for as long as could be expected under the circumstances. During our interview, Christal discussed an assortment of strategies to enable the working lady to adapt to the withdrawal torments. During work, Christal would apply counter strain to my pelvis at whatever point a compression would occur. She likewise showed my better half how to do something very similar so they could alternate.Your Labor and Delivery Advocate: If I took in anything from all the pregnancy books I read, it's that the birthing procedure is capricious. Each lady's physiology, clinical history, and pregnancy is extraordinary and accordingly the most ideal approach to get ready for it is just to be liberal. All through your clinic remain right until you are released, you and your accomplice may need to settle on clinical choices that will influence you or your infant. Having an accomplished birthing mentor close by when you are talking with clinical experts may give you more significant serenity. For instance, when I at long last got to 9 and 3/4 centimeters expanded, the birthing specialist on move was excitedly recommending that I began pushing. She made the proposal to us. Christal, just as the medical attendant on move, said we will consider it… at that point the birthing assistant left the room. Both my medical attendant and Christal believed that it wasn't an ideal opportunity to push yet and that I should work down until I was 10 centimeters enlarged. The explanation is that occasionally on the off chance that you push while your cervix isn't totally open, the infant could tear through piece of the cervix that is in the manner (*shudders*). Thus, at their proposal, I worked down until I was completely enlarged, at that point I started pushing.Support For The Husband: This wasn't something we had considered beforehand, yet ended up being a basic job that Christal played. Work is a long procedure, particularly for first-time mothers. Be that as it may, as hard as it was on for me, my better half was there consistently. In the first place, before my genuine constrictions set in, we were chattering, watching appears on my PC, simply making some chill memories (around the time this photograph was taken). Be that as it may, when constrictions start and after Christal sh owed up, there was no rest for my better half… he and Christal were rotating to give counter-strain to me, and let me let you know… it's an all out arm and back exercise! It was around 3 AM the point at which I got my epidural, after which I immediately nodded off. My poor spouse remained alert the entire time, since he's a light sleeper and there were attendants/other clinical experts coming all through the space to keep an eye on me and furthermore the emergency clinic visitor bed is CRAP. Thank heavens we had Christal that could come and remain with me while my significant other could go out and get some espresso and some food. Once when my significant other was away (out of the medical clinic really) getting food, I began regurgitating. There was nobody in the room yet Christal, so if not for her, I would've heaved all over myself! Our Birth StoryOK, we should rewind to the start of this work and conveyance venture… I was recent weeks pregnant and coming up short on my las t piece of persistence. Beginning around 36-37 weeks, I was having customary Braxton Hicks constrictions (otherwise known as practice withdrawals that involve fixing of the mid-region yet no agony). I felt like my body had been preparing itself for quite a while. In any case, infant Sophia clearly didn't concur with that. I had my layer cleared at 40 weeks and 1 day to ideally accelerate the beginning of work… it was anything but a wonderful encounter. As a matter of fact, I would portray it as beautiful damaging even contrasted with conceiving an offspring on the grounds that the film clearing was managed without sedatives. I googled and googled and a great many people appear to have no issue with their film clearing experience. In any case, mine turned out quite excruciating and damaging. What's more, it didn't trigger work… On top of that, I was eating zesty food, doing squats, talking numerous strolls outside, and taking castor oil. Nothing activated genuine constrictions. And at the same time, my Braxton Hicks continued.The day before my last OB arrangement (40 weeks and 5 days), I had a couple of smaller scale spouts of liquids down there. I thought perhaps it was my water breaking, however since I didn't have some other side effects related with water breaking (persistent hole of liquid or potentially the beginning of genuine compressions), I didn't think a lot. The following day in the Dr's office, I was stripped starting from the waist sitting on the test bed/table when I understood my water certainly broke. Since after only a couple of moments sitting on the little doggy cushion, I had a puddle underneath me… a puddle of clear, unscented liquid like they depict amniotic liquid to be! Furthermore, obviously, my primary care physician affirmed it. It was Tuesday at 11:30 AM, and by 1 PM, I was sunk into my work and conveyance room, where the most groundbreaking occasion in my life would take place.What happened next was a long and strenuous 25 h ours of work. It began with me being initiated with an oral portion of Cytotec. I was somewhat more than 1 centimeter enlarged when I was checked in, and it took 3 portions of Cytotec, a portion of Pitocin, and 20 hours to at long last get to 9 and 3/4 (I know… the stage to get to Hogwarts!) centimeters. It was a long procedure, no doubt, also I spewed around multiple times during this time which I erroneously thought was a response to the epidural I got. After affirming with the anesthesiologist, it worked out that it's simply part of the birthing procedure, and that a few ladies simply hurl, *insert palms up + shrugging emoji*. I spent the most recent hour of work working down. On the off chance that you're thinking about what it implies, here's a decent definition and clarification on why you should work down. During my last vaginal check, the medical caretaker affirmed I was 10 centimeters expanded, and that I was given the go to begin pushing. Prior that day, at around the tw entieth hour of my work procedure, I was messing with the attendants saying watch me push this infant out in a short time since I was so baffled with the long work. All things considered, I in reality sort of did it! It took me 10 minutes of 2 or 3 pushes until the medical attendant was advising me to stop on the grounds that the child was delegated! I was told I am a marvelous pusher. Right now, the medical caretaker inquired as to whether I needed to contact the child's head and I reluctantly said yes. Furthermore, I came to down there and I felt the highest point of her head with loads of hair!! It was a unimaginable encounter (likewise inconceivably peculiar/net feeling?!). The OB on move was all the while watching out for another patient when this was going on, so the attendant advised me to stop some time and trust that the OB will come. The holding up took an additional 5 minutes… lastly, the OB showed up, cleaned in, and 2 additional pushes… Sophia was conceived! The Af termathThe second they pulled this purple, vile, marginally outsider watching being out of me and set her on my chest, I really wanted to break into years. I was crying. It was tears of stun, marvel, and bliss and other baffling feelings. Stun in light of the fact that, truly, it doesn't make a difference what number of birth recordings you watch, when it occurs and you're amidst everything, it's another involvement with all waies imaginable. Marvel since I was in a split second infatuated, SO MUCH enamored… I would at no point ever envision the manner in which I felt the second I saw her. Euphoria since she appeared to be so great thus alive and well; she came out with heaps of hair, an uproarious cry, and clean/clear skin. We were unable to request an increasingly impeccable baby.The hours that followed the introduction of Sophia were somewhat cloudy in my memory. Not on the grounds that I was medicated up, but since

9 Mumbai Hotels that are Pure Luxury, for Business or Leisure

9 Mumbai Hotels that are Pure Luxury, for Business or Leisure 9 Mumbai Hotels that are Pure Luxury, for Business or Leisure IMAGE SOURCE: FOUR SEASONSThe front door of India, an inspiring and beautiful city,  Mumbai is a fantastic vacation destination for all travellers, whether for business or leisure. It’s the  financial powerhouse of India and the country’s  most populated city, dotted with  beautiful amenities and visitor attractions.Visitors have a fantastic  range of accommodation to choose from throughout the city, with  spectacular, luxurious standards  suitable for the business or the leisure guest. Here are just 9 of the most incredible. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 1. Hyatt RegencyImage Source: hyatt regency mumbaiContemporary elegance and style define  Hyatt Regency,  a leading luxury hotel  in Mumbai. The 5-star hotel conveniently located on Sahar Airport Road boasts 401 rooms and offers  unique dining experiences, an extensive spa and fitness center, and innovative banqueting facilities.2. Four Seasons HotelImage Source: four seasonsWith views of the Arabian sea fr om rooms and spectacular panoramic sights from the rooftop bar (pictured above), its no wonder so many guests look to the Four Seasons Hotel as a Mumbai getaway. The hotels unrivalled service and luxurious comfort underline  the sheer quality of the establishment. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 3. The St. RegisImage Source: starwood hotelsPositioned in the heart of the city, The St. Regis Mumbai, the country’s  tallest hotel tower,  is a timeless establishment in the  main  entertainment and commercial district of  Lower Parel.  The hotel offers  395 guest rooms, including 27 suites and 39 Residential Suites, each boasting  stunning views of the city or the Arabian sea.4. The LalitImage Source: the lalitLocated close to the citys airports and minutes away from business and financial districts, The Lalit Mumbai offers a luxurious  and peaceful hub  for travellers of business and leisure.  With an impressive seven-storey atrium lobby, one of the largest in Asia, and priceless murals, it exudes sheer luxury and quality. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 5. The OberoiImage Source:  oberoi hotelsThe Oberoi  sports  an unrivalled position on the exclusive Marine Drive, with stunning  views of the ocean.  The centrepiece of the hotel is the atrium lobby, boasting  natural light that flows through impressive  skylight and floor-to-ceiling windows. Tiled in stylish,  white marble and featuring a contemporary, black granite accent, all rooms, restaurants and spa facilities exude style and class.6. Sofitel Mumbai BKCImage Source: sofitelA luxury hotel reflecting  this vibrant city’s contemporary character, Sofitel Mumbai BKC  provides refinement for guests, with luxurious five-star comforts and a convenient location in Bandra Kurla Complex, amidst Mumbai’s financial district. The avant-garde edge of the  room designs are softened by rich hardwood floors and majestic rugs, while numerous tech facilities enable guests to either relax or work in an inspiring atmosphere. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 7. ITC Grand CentralImage Soutce: itc hotelsInspired by British colonial architecture, the luxury ITC Grand Central  is located amidst the business and  recreational centres of  Parel. The colourful patchwork of the city’s cultures are a palpable influence on the decor, creating a majestic atmosphere.  The hotel  has  242 guest rooms, including 19 suites, and a sophisticated security and building management system.8. The Westin Mumbai Garden CityImage Source: starwood hotelsThe Westin Mumbai Garden City  is a soothingly contemporary award-winning environment for work or  leisure. Guests are treated to a huge  suite of amenities, while the hotels  spacious and luxurious guest rooms are graced with  floor-to-ceiling windows for unbeatable views of the city. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); 9. The LeelaImage Source:  the leelaWith over 300 guest rooms and 30 luxury suites, The Leela is undoubtedly one of the best hotels to be found in Mumbai. The hotel exudes class, with restaurants, a spa and banqueting venue, all found within its magnificently elegant interior.