Team fun might seem counterintuitive to productivity but in fact, it has the opposite effect. It offers a ton of big benefits to team morale, culture, and mental health. Team fun can seem unproductive. It’s tempting to think that time could be spent getting one final thing done before the workday ends or logging off…
Volunteering has been shown to improve employee wellbeing and strengthen workplace relationships, but it’s not always easy to facilitate volunteer opportunities for your people. That’s why creating a volunteer training program for your team can help guide your decisions and get people engaged. To improve and maintain your employees’ well-being, your business needs to provide…
The summer months are the perfect time to get outside, enjoy some beautiful weather, and to have fun with your colleagues, so you’ll love these summer team building activity ideas for your workgroup. Updated: July 5, 2022 It’s that time of year again! Hot weather is here, our moods are at an all-time high, and we all feel the…
We have long known that children who have disabilities are more likely to experience bullying behaviors than their peers who are perceived as being non-disabled. The National Bullying Prevention Center (link here), for example, shares that in 10 U.S. studies examining “the connection between bullying and developmental disabilities, all of these studies found that children with…
The term “global leadership” is strongly associated with economic, political, and social dominance in a neoliberal context. Degree programs using global leadership or similar monikers tend to be offered through graduate schools of business, and they usually emphasize market command in terms of ideas, information, and products. The latter point also applies to business conferences…
Dear readers, if you’d like to learn more about workplace bullying from leading researchers and subject-matter experts, then check out Dr. Gary Namie’s Workplace Bullying Podcast (link here). Here’s how Gary describes the series: This podcast showcases the reality of workplace bullying and abusive conduct and related phenomena from the dark side of the world…
From the Harvard Business Review Writer and communication coach Carmine Gallo, writing on “What the Best Presenters Do Differently” for the Harvard Business Review (link here), reminds us of the importance of storytelling in trying to reach an audience: Our minds are wired for story. We think in narrative and enjoy consuming content in story…
In her first book, The Choice: Embrace the Possible (2017), Dr. Edith Eger recounted the major events of her life, framed by her experiences as a teenaged survivor of the Auschwitz and Mauthausen concentration camps during the Second World War. She shared the many steps of her own recovery and healing, and then described her work…
A welcomed, if long overdue announcement from the White House and an excellent New York Times article have brought important questions about unpaid internships back into the spotlight. Last week, the Biden Administration issued a statement (link here) announcing that, starting this fall, its interns no longer will have to work for free. This is the…
Earlier this year, I gave a virtual presentation about “Bullying and Incivility in the Academic Workplace” for the Northeastern University College of Science in Boston, as part of a series on “Disrupting Academic Bullying.” The recording has been posted to YouTube (link here). I use the first 18-19 minutes to cover bullying, mobbing, and incivility generally,…