MIM-Kyiv January was full of exiting events and stimulating speakers. Here are the highlights of the month. 

January 12

How to deal with post-holiday blues

Olena Nikolska, therapist and business consultant, Hogan Assessment

• Share your holiday impressions with colleagues, look through your holiday pictures and smell the aromas associated with your feel-good places;
• Try to avoid the avalanche of work for the last pre-holiday and first post-holiday days;
• Anchor yourself or have a good memory which you can relish;
• Plan your weekends and vacations;
• Have a hobby different from your work;
• Be self-aware to prevent burnouts and helps to unlock your energy;
• Meet your friends during weekdays. 

January 21

Art as a leadership resource and inspiration for innovative ideas

Yulia Tarasenko, art critic, artist and “Art Experts School” founder.

• Art is innovative. It promotes new ideas and facilitates creativity;
• Switching from rational to imaginative, and from systemic to abstract inspire business leaders;
• Studying art is brain fitness that enhances mental health;
• Artwork can be interpreted from various angles – philosophical, historical, authors’ personalities, symbols, etc. Art helps to see things from different perspectives;
• Business needs to innovate constantly. Art complements logic and thus nurtures creativity;
• Managers who study art have access to global ideas;
• Art induces concentration, self-awareness, and learning experiences.

January 26

BANI Leadership and Meta skills

Olena Yuzkova, MIM-Kyiv professor, CEO for the “Epoch of International Education” company, and Vice-President of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes (ICMCI).

• Being a leader means being self-aware, knowing strengths, and being able to use them;
• The world is brittle, be resilient;
• Anxiety calls for empathy and consciousness. Non-linearity requires adaptability and unpredictability necessitate intuition;
• Meta skills are key to new behaviors and results. They allow taking breaks for inner selves and feelings;
• Intuitive practices when people do small things when they can’t make small ones;
• Starting small and then scaling is a key to success if you are after something truly big;
• Environment shapes success. Network with people who have already achieved what you are striving for;
• Self-awareness, goal-setting, personal development, and actions are critical for coping with challenges;
• Accept yourselves but try to become 1% better every day.

January 27

DO NOT NEGLECT YOUR BOOSTER

Kateryna Bulavinova, medical expert for the UNICEF in Ukraine.

• Booster is administered in 6 months after the second jab. Any citizen over 18 and children over 12 from the risk groups can have it;
• Any vaccine can be used for the booster;
• Do not forget to get a flu vaccine;
• It is better to use negative scenarios for planning. Unvaccinated people are always at risk;
• Stay home if you have even the slightest symptoms;
• Of your GP advises against booster, change the GP.

January 27

"MIM-FINANCE DIGITALIZATION, CRYPTOCURRENCY AND ITS IMPLICATIONS”

Volodymyr Danko, MIM-Kyiv professor of finance, Pre-MBA “Finance Management” director.

• Crypto-assets are relatively small and volatile asset class;
• Crypto market is developing. So do supporting technologies and services;
• Both experts and ordinary Ukrainians need to study the phenomenon before investing in it.