Kindness is often considered a sign of weakness, especially in the serious business world. As professionals, we don’t want to show flaws – especially when competition for promotional opportunities or desire to climb the career ladder is so great and kindness is often seen as a ‘fluffy’. Everyone knows you can’t be a successful professional in business by being a doormat, fortunately though, practising kindness at work has absolutely nothing to do with being a pushover and everything to do with showing great courage and strength.
Thousands of pounds are being spent each year on self-help books, on a range of subjects from making us healthier, being more popular, and even becoming wealthier, but not many people rush out to purchase a book on how we can be kinder. From a very young age, my great grandmother always said that kindness was one of the best gifts that people can give, and in a world filled with enough negativity to last a lifetime, why not change our own perspectives and just be kinder?