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Flipping the script on leader feedback: Why leaders need feedback too
New research from Big Think+ shows that leaders crave more feedback on their leadership and management skills.
How to Not Be a Toxic Leader: 5 Things to Avoid
A toxic workplace is detrimental to employees and their productivity. It also repels the best and brightest talent from wanting to step through your doors. So, it’s important to discover […]
How a Participatory Culture Affects Your Bottom Line
As organizations become increasingly digital and include remote teams or people working a few hours — or even time zones — away from the office, it can be challenging to […]
How Can I Improve My Persuasion Skills?
The power of persuasion is one of the most impactful tools you can have in your professional toolbox — particularly as a leader. Persuasion skills can help you influence the […]
Why It Is Crucial to Look at Diversity as More Than Demographics
When people think of the word “diversity,” what usually comes to mind are the basic categorizations, such as racial diversity, gender, age, and sexual orientation. However, diversity goes far beyond […]
How Simplicity Helps to Increase Innovation and Meaning
Simplicity is at the heart of some of the world’s most successful innovations. To some, simplicity is the concept of reducing complex concepts into simple messages, processes, services, or products. […]
What Are You Doing to Prevent Employee Burnout?
One of the most significant challenges in today’s increasingly fast-paced and demanding business world is figuring out how to balance growing workloads and personal time. A combination of long hours […]
21 New Learning Opportunities We Launched in July
The Big Think+ team is thrilled to present 21 new videos!
4 Ways to Improve Workplace Health
When most people think about improving workplace health, they think of green cleaning methods or washing their hands before eating. However, another aspect of health and wellness in the workplace […]
How to Master Simplicity in Design, Business and Life
Ken Segall, the former creative director of advertising at Apple, Inc., says that “there is no such thing as simplicity; there is only the perception of simplicity.” In this video, […]
Discover How to Market Your Personal Brand Like a Pro
We are living In a time when personal information is readily available online. Although people provide résumés when applying for jobs, employers increasingly turn to social media networks like Facebook, […]
Improve Your Decision-Making Process: Problem Solving Examples in the Workplace
Being able to solve problems and make decisions quickly and effectively are essential skills in both personal and professional life. However, not everyone is good at problem solving and decision-making. […]
How Do You Apply Social Learning Theory in the Workplace?
The use of informal learning programs is on the rise in organizations around the world. A report on informal learning by Degreed states that reliance on formal learning methods — […]
Improve Interpersonal Communication Skills in 5 Steps
Strong interpersonal skills are the “soft skills” that help us successfully live, work, collaborate, and exist with others. Professionals with strong interpersonal skills hone these capabilities through daily practice and […]
The Tyranny of Positivity: A Harvard Psychologist Details Our Unhealthy Obsession With Happiness
Harvard psychologist Susan David says she worries about the message that society promotes about focusing on happiness — that it may inadvertently result in greater levels of unhappiness. Happiness has become […]
3 Ways to Avoid the High Cost of Employee Turnover
Employee “churn,” or turnover, is the costly asset loss every organization faces when an employee resigns, retires, or gets fired. Josh Bersin of Deloitte reports that voluntary turnover alone, at […]
Improving Your Hiring Process to Feed Your Leadership Pipeline
The New York Post reports that CEO turnover is the highest it has been in eight years. However, according to the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), executive churn is a […]
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