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Growing from failure at the workplace

By Bakhtawar Khalid Fail faire events are designed to celebrate the lessons we learn from the failures we face in different walks of life. For this edition of the series, Accountability Lab Pakistan (ALP) brought together a cross-section of professionals to reflect on the failures they have experienced at the workplace. We share the lessons we derive from these experiences in the hope that it will encourage others to reflect on their own failures and extract meaningful insight on how to grow and improve. All our speakers were mid-career level professionals who are themselves figuring out their journey to success. [...]

2022-11-10T06:46:26+00:0022nd September 2020|

Celebrating Student Life and Recognizing Failure as Part of Learning

Admitting failure is often seen as a sign of weakness or of accepting defeat, which is why there is so much social stigma around it. At Accountability Lab, we want to change norms and perceptions around the notion of failure. We do this by providing people with a platform to speak honestly and openly about their failures while also sharing the learnings from their stories and recounting how they were able to overcome these failures.  This enables other participants to recognize their own patterns of dealing with failure, counters the stigma around failure and helps relieve some of the anxiety [...]

2022-11-10T06:46:26+00:0011th August 2020|

Learning from failure – AL Pakistan’s First Fail Faire

Celebrating failure openly is a great avenue for authentic discussions with people who you may not know well but whose stories of failure embolden you to share yours and to accept failure as the first step to success. By Bakhtawar Khalid. While hosting my first Fail Faire, I learned how difficult it is for speakers to embrace failure and vulnerability. We are programmed to put our best foot forward, so sharing your failure story goes against your instincts to protect yourself. This is why Fail Faires have become a platform for open discussion that facilitates new connections among the audience [...]

2020-07-07T19:45:08+00:0027th March 2020|
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