When the Best Leadership Skill Is Just Being Present
Unlike traditional leadership responses to employees—offering advice, jumping to solutions, or minimizing feelings—attunement is about being with another person instead of trying to fix them or the situation. It’s when a leader deeply notices, actively listens, and signals to an employee: I see you. I understand you. You are safe here. Unfortunately, this powerful skill is rare among leaders, who are often taught that action is more important than listening.
Resilience and Grit: The Foundations of Thriving Through Challenges
We hear about resilience and grit often—but do we really understand how to apply these concepts in meaningful ways?
Confidence is the New Killer App: The Key to Winning in the Age of AI
There are many ways to build collective confidence. Here are two effective approaches leaders can take to cultivate team confidence, build a culture of self-reliance, and empower your team to handle challenges with resilience.
3 Not So Obvious Ways to Boost Productivity
There are many ways to boost productivity; the three topics discussed here are powerful and accessible to everyone. Give sleep, meditation, and more movement a try and see what it does for you!
How to Have a Big Rocks Conversation at Work
You’ve probably heard of the Steven Covey meme of putting big rocks in the bucket first, then the pebbles, then the sand. More goes in the bucket that way. But that doesn’t mean that everything fits. We can protect ourselves by having clear ideas of how much time we’re willing to spend at work and then setting boundaries to protect the time that rightfully belongs to us.
Mind the Gap!
The empathy gap is a researched bias that when we aren’t currently experiencing a situation (even if we just experienced it 10 minutes ago!), we dramatically underestimate how much it would affect us. Use these tips to mind the gap and practice more helpful empathy.
Designing Rituals for Well-Being
Design rituals for well-being to connect more deeply to what is most meaningful to you. Rituals can be performed by yourself or with a group.
Happiness, self-help and the believing mind
I am culpable of being a part of the current global happiness bandwagon, which I suspect is a matter of suspicion for many rational people who brandish scientific temper as a badge of honor. There are thousands of books written on the subject every year, and almost all of them tend to be repetitive, talking about mindfulness or goal setting or changing your mindset etc.
Dreams Undusted
At what point do you wake up and accept that your life has become a compromise? Over the course of days and years and decades all the choices you have made or half-made in a fog assemble themselves in a generally orderly fashion and we call them our “life”.
Internal Coaching from Top Companies is Expanding
We’re living in a worker’s economy. In 2022, we entered into a labor dynamic “we haven’t seen in decades…” according to LinkedIn chief economist Karin Kimbrough. In this new world, she says, “job seekers have an easier time securing better opportunities and they have less competition.”
How Women Can Get Comfortable “Playing Politics” at Work
By now, it’s a tired refrain: Women, particularly women of color, are significantly outnumbered at the senior leadership level in organizations. Covid-19 made this fact worse: In 2021, the number of years it would take before women reached parity with men increased by a third.
Resilience & Flourishing through hardship
Give yourself permission to be human. It is OK to show our vulnerability. We cannot be strong, upbeat, happy and confident all the time. As humans, we experience joy and excitement during good times, and we feel sad or anxious when bad things happen.
Three Unconscious Ways You’re Destroying Your Own Confidence (And How To Stop)
I was recently speaking with a friend of mine who was on the verge of breakdown. Before I tell you why, I just want to give you a bit of context: This woman is amazing. Her career is on fire. She travels around the world literally helping women lead happier lives, from Paris to London to sunny Maui.
Resilience, Growth & Kintsukuroi: You are better than you think you are.
Resilience. Grit. Sisu. Post-traumatic growth. Different researchers emphasize the subtle distinctions within the larger truth that more often than not, we are better than we think we are.
How To Kick-Start Your Meetings With More Joy
Do you want to bring more joy into your company? One place to start is the way you begin your meetings. Many people come to meetings in the mood of their last call, personal interaction, email they read, or meeting they attended. Their moods and attention are basically tied up in other things.
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