Earlier in April, we hosted NVPC’s Company of Good Fellows on our flagship Resilience Trails. Our Founding Director, Huijia Phua, was a former COG Fellow and so this opportunity was especially meaningful to us as the Resilience Trails was also the focus of her Action Project in 2022. Read on to find out how we think corporate and government partners could play a part in building an ecosystem of impact with us!

Hear from our intern, Jody, on her takeaways from our Resilience Trails!

Most of us know the common term Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, at Skillseed, beyond just being “responsible” for our stakeholders, we see the “R” in CSR as building mutual relationships of trust, hence the reframe of CSR as Corporate Social Relationships.

Akshay Nair, our intern and final year Business Administration student from Singapore Polytechnic, shares about the significance of relational communication at the workplace.

Sivaranjani, our intern and final year student majoring in International Relations, shares about the significance of being empathetic in our engagements.

Eleyn, a Summer Intern at Skillseed, shares her key takeaways from helping in the design of Skillseed’s new Scarcity module.

What does mental health look like or mean to you? This article shares how we can adopt a holistic approach to mental health at workplaces, on both the individual and team levels.

Faith, our resident bookworm shares about 7 strategies that we can implement with our teams in this journey of people empowerment.

Serlyn, who is currently interning at Skillseed shares on the much hyped ‘new normal’ that the world is progressing towards. As we embrace a hybrid workforce model, we also struggle with the challenges of remote working such as Zoom Fatigue . With such unprecedented challenges and changes, how do we then manage our personal and professional expectations?

Akriti Shrivastava, a volunteer at Skillseed and an experienced social development professional across the non-profit and corporate sectors, shares the whys and hows of Community Engagement in today’s context.

Ecotourism, the fastest-growing sector of the tourist industry, was born as a reaction against mass conventional tourism to provide a more conscionable, environmentally-sustainable alternative. At its core, ecotourism is about exploring while also respecting humans and nature. It’s about recognising that we are a part of the ecosystem and therefore should be mindful of our impact on it. With borders closing and limitations on traveling during this COVID season, perhaps now more than ever, it is the time to observe our surroundings and rediscover our immediate environments in our day to day lives.

Akriti Shrivastava, a volunteer at Skillseed and an experienced social development professional across the non-profit and corporate sectors, breaks down the concept of Social Innovation and shares how corporates can contribute to sustainable impact.