The 10 Golden Rules of Effective Management
Even if your job title doesn’t include “manager,” there’s a good chance you’ll have to handle some management duty sometime in your career. And, as an entrepreneur, you're already a manager, because almost every one of your responsibilities has some management element to it.
The Science of Virtual Work
With coronavirus now all but ensuring that teams who can work remotely are doing so, you’ve probably been wondering how that migration will actually happen—and if it’s going to be good or bad for your teams and organization.
Why Is Empathy Missing From Work?
In the world of wages paid for a job done, humanity doesn’t matter all that much. But times have changed, and the workplace should, too.
Remote Managers: Now Is The Time To Trust Your Team, Not Micromanage Them
Here are some ways to create transparency and accountability without micromanaging your team. The goal is to show you trust them.
6 Expressions to Use That Show Empathy at Work
Empathy is a critical quality in today’s work world.
Rewiring Your Brain to Become a Better Leader
Good news, old dogs -- new tricks can be learned. And the secret to making dramatic changes to behavior involves one of the coolest new trends in contemporary science -- neuroplasticity.
What Happens in the Brain When You Learn a Language?
Learning a foreign language can increase the size of your brain. This is what Swedish scientists discovered when they used brain scans to monitor what happens when someone learns a second language.
Learning a New Language at Any Age Helps the Brain
Learning a second language may help improve brain function regardless of when you start, according to a new study.
10 Shockingly Common Workplace Challenges Impacting Your Business
It may come as no surprise that “a lack of time to get work done” is just as big a problem in nursing as it is in government; and “poor communication” is as rampant in the not-for-profit world as it in in private industry. It just goes to show that ‘people problems’ are universal.
The Importance of Showing Empathy in the Workplace
According to the 2018 State of Workplace Empathy study, 96% of employees consider it important for employers to demonstrate empathy, and yet 92% believe this trait is undervalued in their workplaces.
What is Employee-Level Empathy and What Can Your Company Do to Achieve it?
The importance of empathy within a business context is an emerging trend. So much so, the Harvard Business Review shared the Empathy Index for businesses, which attempts to determine how empathetic your company is and whether empathy levels affect commercial success.
The Neuroscience Of Organizational Culture
Doidge continues his description by noting that research into neuroplasticity shows that every sustained activity ever mapped – including physical activities, sensory activities, learning, thinking and imagining – changes the brain and the mind in some way.
How the Science of Neuroplasticity Can Help Your Employees Thrive
Using neuroplasticity, the ability of the brain to form and reorganize synaptic connections, we can remodel behaviors and adapt to create a better workplace.
8 critical steps to creating empathy in the workplace
Are you showing your employees enough support?
How to Use Empathy to Improve Your Workplace
4 Ways to Build Your Empathetic Skills to Benefit Your Workplace
What Does DEI Mean in the Workplace?
Catalina Colman, director of HR and inclusion at Built In, explains the meaning and importance of diversity, equity and inclusion.
diversitypop Provides DEI Training With a Military Twist
Military training relies on repeatability and reinforcement to drive home training. That approach is being applied to a new DEI training app.
Cognitive Function at Work
Given that we use cognitive function the entire time we are awake, it’s no surprise that it plays a critical role in our abilities at work.
What Is Cognitive Dissonance?
Everyone experiences cognitive dissonance to some degree, but that doesn't mean that it is always easy to recognize.
What Drives Employees to Work Hard?
Many assume that passionate employees accept less money because they love their jobs, but a new study indicates that they end up earning more.