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Can A Dialogue Change How a Doctor Practices Medicine?
At a large Health Care Provider, employees and providers came together to discuss patient experience in the context of race, disability, LGBTQIA access, and gender equity. In there, they learn how to be allies to their patients with the aim of providing inclusive...
How to Help Employees Adopt AI & Thrive in the Future of Work
AI Skills Training Your company just invested in AI tools to improve efficiency and stay ahead of the competition. But there’s a problem—your employees aren’t adopting them. Some resist change, others don’t see the value, and productivity gains aren’t happening. Sound...
How to Lead Your Team and Rebuild Trust and Morale After Layoffs
You sit at your desk, staring at your inbox. The weight of the last few months is palpable—the layoffs, shifting priorities, and lingering uncertainty. It's been three months, but the scars remain, not just in the numbers, but in the faces of your team. You know...
How to Build Resilience in Employees During Times of Change
Building Mental Agility and Emotional Strength in Times of Uncertainty In today’s fast-paced, ever-changing business landscape, many employees find themselves overwhelmed by shifting priorities and constant disruptions. The stress isn’t just about workload—it’s the...
How Can I Become a Better Leader?
Practical Leadership Insights from Neuroscience Leadership is a complex and multifaceted role that requires a deep understanding of human behavior and motivation. As neuroscience research continues to expand our knowledge of the brain, it is increasingly clear that...
How to Hire a Facilitator
When you are planning a meeting, workshop, or group activity, hiring a great facilitator can make all the difference. But how do you find the right person for the job? Here are some tips for hiring a great facilitator: 1. Define Your Goals Before you start looking...
The Most Underrated Skill in Management: Facilitation
Facilitation is a crucial skill for any leader or team member who needs to guide groups to achieve their goals. A great facilitator can make all the difference in ensuring that meetings, workshops, and other group activities are productive, collaborative, and...
How to Hire the Right Executive Coach?
A good executive coach can help you develop new skills, overcome challenges, and achieve your goals. However, with so many coaches available, it can be challenging to know where to start. In this article, we'll explore some key factors to consider when selecting an...
Executive Coach: How It Can Help You
You are thinking about hiring an executive coach, because mentorship is not enough, but don’t really know what they do and if they can help you. In this article, we provide an overview to help you decide if an executive coach is right for you or your leaders....
Are You Surviving or Thriving? A Roadmap to Thrive
Are you curious about how the pandemic and layoffs have affected employees' mental health and work performance? You're not alone. Many have been struggling to keep their heads above water in these challenging times. But there's hope. Companies are now shifting their...
Why you Need to Stop Measuring Employee Engagement
The Truth about Engagement Surveys We could talk about our obsession with measuring employees against yardsticks that have nothing to do with their jobs. Wherever we begin the conversation, the underlying problem typically is the same. Most people will agree that...
Why Employee Voice Matters
A few months ago, Sarah joined a Fortune 500 company with enthusiasm and eagerness to contribute to an organization that professed to prioritize inclusion. However, within weeks she noticed something peculiar: her colleagues remained silent during meetings, never daring to challenge their boss or ask questions.
Negotiating Your Way to Success: Tips for the Workplace
“You don’t get the life you deserve, you get the life you negotiate.” Chris Voss, Expert Negotiator Negotiation is an essential part of professional life, whether you're seeking a salary increase, negotiating a contract, or making a business deal. But not all...
What is leadership?
“Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.” - Joanne Ciulla Leadership is a concept that has been studied, analyzed, and debated for...
The 5 Habits of a Poorly Performing Team
Has the pandemic and the adoption of hybrid work impacted your team’s performance? If your answer is yes, know that you cannot solve a problem without clearly defining it. Start by reviewing the issues below and ask your team to diagnose the problem. The Key...
5 Practices of High-Performance Teams
The pandemic and the emergence of hybrid work styles have created the need to adopt a new set of practices to maintain high performance. Share this short video with your team and discuss the practices you need to adopt.
Am I still emotionally intelligent?
Am I still emotionally intelligent? After months of working from home, staying alone has become my comfort zone. I’m not sure if this is your case but for me being asked to join a party or a face-to-face meeting sends me running the opposite way. Recently, I was...
What is emotional intelligence?
Emotional intelligence explained in less than one minute in this short video.
The neuroscience of stereotype threat
Under stereotype threat, how does your brain react? Learn about the neuroscience of stereotype threat. Imagine this, you arrived early at work for a town hall meeting. Another employee arrives a minute later, looks around, and asks you, when will breakfast be served?...
5 Diversity and Inclusion Skills
Many organizations have implemented diversity and inclusion programs aimed at creating inclusive workplaces. However, most diversity programs simply distribute information. The best programs provide employees with skills that they can use across domains to be...
How to Mitigate Hiring Bias?
Not long ago, I was asked to audit a hiring process for a large organization. I learned that appearance was a factor rated by hiring managers and impacted the overall hiring decision. This was a bias that could negatively affect all people belonging to low...
Hiring: Best Practices To Increase Diversity
A hiring manager calls a recruiter: “I need to hire a Marketing Director ASAP.” The recruiter responds: “What are you looking for? Got a job description?” Hiring manager: “No, I don’t have time to write one. Can you create one?” This simple request can lead...
The Key To Employee Retention
The Great Resignation has employers seeking the truth about why their employees are leaving at rapid rates. We decided to launch a poll asking people on various platforms the reason for their departure. To our surprise, the top four answers all connect to our human...
Destructive Leadership Behavior
How to survive a toxic leader Let’s start with the definition. Toxic leaders are “individuals who, by virtue of their destructive behaviors and their dysfunctional personal qualities or characteristics, inflict serious and enduring harm on the individuals, groups,...
Are You the Real Reason Employees are Quitting?
Photo by Tiger Lily from PexelsYou remember back to the round of interviews that got you the current team you manage. In those spirited meetings, your future workers seemed passionate, profound, and driven by the desire to do the best work possible. In the time since,...
The Key to Psychological Safety in the Workplace: One Leadership Skill
Have you been in meetings where a leader asks for feedback, or an employee makes a hurtful remark and no one says a thing? Maybe afterward, you gather with a colleague to discuss the incident, but nothing gets resolved. You likely experience a lack of psychological...
A Manager’s Guide to Surviving COVID-19
Layoff Survivor Sickness Syndrome Thrive Global invites voices from many spheres to share their perspectives on our Community platform. Community stories are not commissioned by our editorial team, and opinions expressed by Community contributors do not reflect the...
The Ugly Truth about “Toxic” Workplaces with Public Diversity Statements
You may have heard that unless you heal and learn from bad relationships, you are likely to repeat the experience and engage with a new abuser. So, if you are part of the great resignation and are fed up with high workloads, low pay, and abuse, learn the pattern of...
Implementing Diversity & Inclusion Programs: How A Growth Mindset Can Help You Overcome Challenges and Win at D&I
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is undoubtedly a hot topic across the private sector. Many want to succeed but few are able to do it. As companies engaged in valuable initiatives it's common to see implementation challenges that lead to D&I fatigue. A few...
How to Be an Ally
Over the past year, allyship has been an increasingly popular and much-needed discussion. Being an ally is not simply saying that you stand with marginalized communities, it’s about understanding deeply why people are marginalized and how allyship can help you be more deeply engaged to create sustained cultural change.
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