I always enjoy Valeria's posts. This one addresses the essence of connecting with a diverse audience and the importance of the depth in relationships. ...... There's no hiding in real life. Your assets must be real. Just like in business, eventually you will be found. The good news is that once you make a connection real, you have it for a long time 1. Diversity - a person who communicates with a diverse audience will be more influential than a person who communicates with a uniform audience. 2. Autonomy - a person who is free to speak his or her own mind, and is not merely parroting some 'official view', will have more influence. 3. Openness - a person who writes in multiple languages, or who can be read on multiple platforms, or who is not limited to a single communications channel, will have more influence. 4. Connectivity - a person you can communicate with, and who will listen to your point of view, will have more influence than a person who does not. ...

Workplace engagement is all about genuinely caring for your employees. They should be aware of their employer’s attitude towards them, which means that there should be ways and means to convey an employer’s concern to his employees. Employers must make clear that they care for them. This should be part of the Company policy so that employees can actually benefit from it. This policy will reap long-term rewards for the business. Some important pointers about an engaged workforce are that: •They will always speak positively about their Company to others including clients, customers, colleagues or friends. •They are committed to stay with the organization, no matter what, sometimes even at the cost of a financially better opportunity. •They are completely involved in the work they do and for the organization they work for – body, mind, heart and soul. Engagement is a two-way process wherein both the employee and employer can find a middle ground to work their way around issues ...

I always wonder if weak minds represent the majority of the population. @FiorenzaMella

The poet John Milton invented “sensuous” because he apparently felt that the existing word, “sensual,” was getting too sexy for his purposes. “Sensuous” first appeared in writing, according to citations in the Oxford English Dictionary, in Milton’s essay Of Reformation Touching Church Discipline in England (1641). In the relevant passage, Milton contrasts the “Soule” with “her visible, and sensuous collegue the body.” He used the word again in a 1644 essay on education. This quotation comes from a passage in which he discusses practical arts like logic and rhetoric: “To which Poetry would be made subsequent, or indeed rather precedent, as being lesse suttle and fine, but more simple, sensuous, and passionate.” It seems the author of Paradise Lost regarded “sensual” as inappropriate for exalted writing and needed something a bit drier. @FiorenzaMella

Losing Our World's Languages Every 14 days a language dies. By 2100, more than half of the more than 7,000 languages spoken on Earth—many of them not yet recorded—may disappear, taking with them a wealth of knowledge about history, culture, the natural environment, and the human brain. National Geographic's Enduring Voices Project (conducted in collaboration with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages) strives to preserve endangered languages by identifying language hotspots—the places on our planet with the most unique, poorly understood, or threatened indigenous languages—and documenting the languages and cultures within them. Why Is It Important? Language defines a culture, through the people who speak it and what it allows speakers to say. Words that describe a particular cultural practice or idea may not translate precisely into another language. Many endangered languages have rich oral cultures with stories, songs, and histories passed on to younger ...

Very interesting article! @FiorenzaMella

The col­ors are deep and lush, warm and envelop­ing. And if eyes are the win­dow to the soul, don't you feel you can see right into the soul of these figures? This is truly inspiring! @FiorenzaMella