Emotions

How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion

Rebecca Knight

Managing a redundancy with humanity.

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Making Mistakes

Alice Boyes

How to not be ashamed of our fears and transform them into a driver to make better decisions.

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How to Find and Practice Courage

Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries

Concrete techniques to work at courage and get used to risk taking.

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How to Overcome Your Fear of Failure

Susan Peppercorn

Changing our rapport to failure to dare move into action despite the risk of setback.

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A New Way to Become More Open-Minded

Shane Snow

A self-positioning test to evaluate your degree of open-mindedness and your capacity for self-questioning, complete with recommendations to strengthen them.

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To Find Meaning in Your Work, Change How You Think About It

John Coleman

Practical advice to help your staff members put the meaning of their daily work in perspective. 

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Want to be a better leader? Observe more and react less

Manish Chopra

A McKinsey consultant recalls how the use of meditating helped him to become more present to himself and others.

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Don’t Let Your Brain’s Defense Mechanisms Thwart Effective Feedback

James R. Detert, Ethan R. Burris

How we can elude the various mental processes that may lead us to misinterpret feedback.

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To Get More Feedback, Act More Coachable

Jean-François Manzoni

What attitude should you adopt when receiving unpleasant feedback, to avoid discouraging the other person from giving you more in the future.

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Stop Making Gratitude All About You

Heidi Grant

There are two ways to express recognition: one that is self-centered (“Thank you for the benefits that your work brought me”); the other—much more motivating for the recipient—is centered on the other (“Your efforts are remarkable!”).

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