Cheers to our global gang! 🌍🌟 As the year draws to a close, we're giving a shoutout to the 13,000 amazing contributors on our platform. By leveraging Byron, the exchange within our company becomes more seamless, paving the way for new projects and strengthening our unity within Bayer. 🚀 Presenting this exclusive POAP as a massive thank you, because without you, this platform wouldn't be what it is. 🙌 Byron, an acronym for Bayer Open Network, is our Skills database for Bayer employees, including speed networking. We kicked off in 2018 as a True North grassroots side initiative, going live in 2020. Created by over 40 students and programming enthusiasts with the help of EY Croatia. Today, we have 13,000 registered users from 89 countries, in 293 cities. People have searched for something in Byron at least 25,000 times and engaged in 31,000 1:1 Speed network meetings. http://go/byron Looking ahead, we're thrilled about the future and the prospect of our community growing even larger. Can't wait for more collaborations and successes together in the coming year! 🎉✨ Art created by Lena Schermer

Toastmasters International is a nonprofit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. At Bayer, we have clubs in Germany (Berlin, Wuppertal), USA (Whippany, NJ; Chesterfield and St. Louis, MO) and Dalian, China. Most of our clubs are meeting in a hybrid format – come join a meeting and try it out. We’re looking forward to meeting you!

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AWARE the mindfulness community at Bayer. What is mindfulness? “Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way; On purpose, in the present moment and nonjudgmentally.” This is the definition of mindfulness by the famous initiator of the program Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction, John Kabat-Zinn (University of Massachusetts, founder of the Center for Mindfulness). The concept of mindfulness is illustrated in the bestseller “Search Inside Yourself” by Chade-Meng Tan. Moreover, it connects mindfulness to emotional intelligence and neuroscience. The author developed the Search Inside Yourself training to teach participants how to become more satisfied, creative and successful by applying mindfulness practices. For more detailed information on mindfulness, please see the following link: http://greatergood.berkeley.edu/topic/mindfulness/definition What is the purpose of this community? This community was set up to make the concept of mindfulness more famous… and we would like to learn from each other! Are you curious?