Manager-coach

How to Tell Someone They’re Being Laid Off

Rebecca Knight

Some advice on how to best manage redundancies, i.e. this delicate moment, feared by many managers.

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Tonight’s Presidential Debate Will Be Decided by Body Language

Amy J.C. Cuddy

How can you combine both power and warmth in your gestures to more effectively obtain the adhesion of your audience?

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Your Body Language Speaks for You in Meetings

Charalambos Vlachoutsicos

Some practical tips to become aware of your body language during important meetings.

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The New Science of Building Great Teams

Alex “Sandy” Pentland

Led across many sectors of activity, this instructive study presents the communication patterns most appropriate for team performance. 

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Boost Power Through Body Language

Amy J.C. Cuddy

A self-development video to understand how our gestures affect the hormone levels—which, in turn, raise our self-confidence and reduce our stress.

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Defend Your Research: We Can Measure the Power of Charisma

Alex “Sandy” Pentland

Independently of the content of a pitch, the author is able to predict, based on nonverbal language alone, which project holders will be selected by investors. He’s right 87% of the time!

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Applied governance: beyond compliance

"A plea for appointing ""Transparency Directors""."

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The Power of Talk: Who Gets Heard and Why

Deborah Tannen

How subtle differences in the way men and women have learnt to express themselves influence their credibility and the degree of listening others grant them. 

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Use Gratitude to Counter Stress and Uncertainty

Christopher Littlefield

Beyond the known effects of acknowledgement over staff engagement, this article focuses on its virtues to help them through stressful and uncertain times.

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Successful Remote Teams Communicate in Bursts

Christoph Riedl, Anita Williams Woolley

To maintain the innovation capacity of the teams when they are dispersed, interactions must be scheduled to alternate times of exchange with periods of thinking alone over the ideas. 

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