As pioneers in executive coaching and corporate philanthropy in Cyprus, we know our reach extends far beyond individual success. Our work is about sparking transformation, and empowering whole organizations to leave a lasting mark on their communities.
Today, we’re thrilled to unveil the answers to your, dear friends, questions coming to our inbox in all our social media profiles. Dive in!
- What inspired the founding of your company?
Founded in 2021, You Inspire was initially an interview project, but over time we added executive coaching services and expanded to cover corporate needs with mindset training and philanthropic initiatives.
Before starting You Inspire, we had a business background and honestly saw a lot of suffering in the eyes of corporate employees. We saw loneliness. People were simply lost, burned out, and depressed; they considered their job merely a place for earning income, and nothing more.
Thus, through professional inspiration, we decided to help people find great joy, true meaning, inner strength, and motivation to harness their professional and personal potential.
2. How did you come up with your brand name?
“Inspiration” comes from the word “inspire,” meaning “in Spirit.”
We want you to be “in spirit”
And yes, it’s a lot about spirituality as well.
3. What were the biggest challenges your project faced in its early days?
- Clarifying the concept of philanthropy for businesses, its differentiation from charity, and how businesses can strategically benefit from philanthropy. A lot of people still confuse it with “useless giving” and “unprofitable activities.”
- Reinforcing tailored coaching and training with follow-ups to ensure it sticks. In Cyprus, 40% of employees forget training within a month without reinforcement.
- Revealing and showing the gap between current training programs and actual employee needs.
4. How do you stay innovative and ahead in your market?
Continuing professional development and quarterly attendance at international niche conferences in coaching, psychology, and business
5. How does You Inspire help avoid employee turnover and create a drive among employees to develop professionally within the company?
We help businesses create a unified culture of common values, goals, and mission, where all employees, including expats, speak “the same language” and, most importantly, understand and support each other. Such a work culture creates conditions for continuous personal and professional growth, which is beneficial for both the individual and the business.
People who go to work with enthusiasm and then go home happy, with a sense of fulfilment and successful completion of the working day, do not look for another job. What for? They are already in the most inspiring environment. YI helps companies create exactly such environment. For this purpose, we have created 2 unique corporate human capital development programs.
6. What are some common misconceptions about your industry?
There are many!
- High turnover is normal in “this” industry / turnover is solely an HR problem.
- One-size-fits-all training programs / “all employees learn in the same way.”
- Job satisfaction doesn’t affect productivity.
- “Clients don’t care about our philanthropic efforts.”
- Philanthropy is only for large corporations / doesn’t benefit the company.
- Burnout is just “part of the job.”
- Mental health initiatives don’t work.
- Mindfulness is too spiritual for corporate settings.
- Resilience can’t be taught.
And many others…
7. What are some exciting trends you’re seeing in your industry right now?
We will quote Mike McDerment, CEO of FreshBooks:
“Even with the pace of technological innovation, there’s one thing that doesn’t change, people are still looking for a HUMAN EXPERIENCE. We all are”
8. How does your company impact the quality of life of business stakeholders and their perception of the company as a source of opportunities?
The impact chain is as follows:
1) the business invests in the development program prepared by YI for their employees
2) the goal is set, training, educational and philanthropic events are held, reporting and results are presented
3) qualitative changes occur in the mindset, self-analysis skills and self-motivation of employees
4) employees evaluate and appreciate the organization’s contribution to their development, become more involved
5) labor productivity increases due to the ability to effectively distribute the workload and maintain a personal “work-life “balance
6) a new thriving work culture and environment of the company, is formed, and as a result – a stronger team of specialists with a common ideology and values appear
7) people become more conscious in their personal lives, as a result – happier and grateful, and due to their changed way of thinking, new ideas and better results appear
8) an increase in potential profits and an increase in the level of competitiveness of the company in the market
9. Can you share some industry insights or tips with your audience?
Sure. Here is one.
According to the World Economic Forum, 45% of the workforce will need retraining in the next 5 years. Be prepared: nearly every second person will require improved qualifications, so it’s important to be mentally ready for this change.
10. What skills does You Inspire develop in company employees?
The top skills in 2027, according to the World Economic Forum data, will be: analytical (critical) and creative thinking, both of which are “soft skills”, and that is what we develop in employees. Frankly speaking, these skills are always the most relevant: they were just underestimated before, now they have become “survival skills” for comfortable adaptation at the times of maximum unpredictability and world turbulence. Both for a person and for a business.
In soft skills, YI focuses on developing: mindfulness, prevention of emotional burnout, internal and social loneliness, development of EQ, effective communication, resilience, life balance, workload management, expansion of consciousness and depth of thinking, “stretching” of the mind and body, a sense of inner strength, personal significant and synergy with a community.
11. How does your network of experts in various fields of philanthropy, such as Buddhist monks and Indian yogis, contribute to implementing corporate programs?
We believe that only a person who, both in thoughts and in actions, lives for decades according to the system of knowledge that he teaches or disseminates, can be called a real master or teacher. Such a teacher has already gone through many crises, setbacks, doubts and remained on his path. And only such inner strength and powerful energy of a real teacher can help numerous employees of large corporations. We find such teachers and organize corporate events with them to transfer real knowledge.
We choose Indian yogis, Buddhist monks and other prominent figures to teach practices of mindfulness, self-discipline, skills of calming the mind and stress resistance, since they have dedicated their lives to this. Who can be more inspiring?
12. What’s your service cost, let’s say per event?
We will arrange your first corporate event at NO COST*.
If you like it, we can proceed to sign a cooperation agreement for a human capital development program. Everything is tailor-made specifically for your business, your people, and your ultimate goals.
13. How do you envision the future of your company?
Now it’s a “Cypriot-European” project, both geographically and in terms of mentality.
Looking to the future, we envision ourselves as a transnational philanthropic organization.
Let’s say in 10-15 years.
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