In this expert class, executive coach Alisa Cohn shares principles and practices designed to help you overcome self-doubt and insecurity, enabling you to become a more natural leader for your team.
In this video lesson, psychologist Valerie Purdue Greenaway discusses how structural discrimination is embedded in institutional practices and offers strategies to address it, emphasizing the importance of inclusive assessments and workplace cues that promote shared experiences among diverse groups.
Psychologist Valerie Purdie Greenaway highlights in her video lesson that micro-inequities, though subtle, can accumulate to significantly harm individuals and groups in the workplace, leading to talent loss, universal vulnerability to discrimination, and increased stress impacting performance and health.
The “fail fast” mantra, while popular among entrepreneurs, can lead to unpreparedness for success, as it often distracts from planning for positive outcomes and neglects the realities faced by those without safety nets, emphasizing the need for strategic preparation for both failure and success.
In her video lesson, entrepreneur Nathalie Molina Niño emphasizes that true success in business involves defining organizational culture and values, highlighting that winning isn’t solely about profit but also about fostering positive relationships and a supportive work environment.
Positive psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar emphasizes that improving relational well-being, a key aspect of happiness, can be achieved through simple acts of giving, which enhance connection and foster healthier relationships, ultimately benefiting both ourselves and others.
Positive psychologist Tal Ben-Shahar emphasizes that while stress can enhance performance, it’s crucial to balance it with recovery—through mini, mid, and macro-level strategies—to prevent burnout and promote overall well-being.
In her video, workplace expert Amy Gallo emphasizes the importance of providing verbal cues and addressing misunderstandings promptly in remote settings to enhance communication, reduce tension, and preserve relationships.
Workplace expert Amy Gallo emphasizes that embracing and normalizing disagreement can foster innovation, strengthen relationships, and create a more inclusive environment, urging colleagues to express differing opinions productively rather than avoiding discomfort.
In this video lesson, workplace expert Amy Gallo offers strategies for preparing and initiating difficult conversations effectively, emphasizing mental readiness, strategic planning, and logistical considerations to foster collaboration and learning, even when discussions don’t go as planned.
In her video lesson, workplace expert Amy Gallo explores how to effectively coexist with difficult coworkers—such as biased individuals, pessimists, victims, and passive-aggressive peers—by fostering psychological safety and encouraging open communication.
In a video lesson, TOPGUN graduate Guy Snodgrass emphasizes the importance of clear communication by advocating for the “Bottom Line Up Front” (BLUF) approach, which prioritizes essential information and fosters consensus among stakeholders to enhance effectiveness and influence.
Guy Snodgrass emphasizes the importance of actively seeking targeted feedback on strengths and weaknesses to foster growth and improve performance, encouraging professionals to embrace constructive criticism as a means to meet standards and enhance organizational culture.
Albert Einstein’s warning against uniform thinking highlights the dangers of groupthink, which can stifle innovation and growth; organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes the importance of diverse perspectives and strategies to counteract the HIPPO Effect in leadership.
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes that leaders must establish psychological safety by openly criticizing themselves, as this encourages candid feedback and helps individuals reach their full potential, especially in environments where fear of judgment prevails.
In a scene from Monty Python’s Life of Brian, the protagonist urges the crowd to think for themselves, highlighting the irony of their uniformity, which organizational psychologist Adam Grant uses to emphasize the importance of hiring for culture contribution and diversity beyond mere similarities.
In this video lesson, organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes the importance of timely feedback, framing it as actionable advice rather than criticism, and differentiating between types of failures to foster growth and development in direct reports.
In a video lesson, organizational psychologist Adam Grant argues that separating praise from criticism and framing feedback as attainable growth goals enhances effectiveness, as the traditional “feedback sandwich” often dilutes the impact of constructive criticism.
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes that effective leaders balance encouragement and constructive criticism by acting as coaches, helping individuals recognize their strengths and weaknesses while fostering personal growth through self-awareness and feedback.
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant argues that traditional group brainstorming stifles potential, advocating for individual idea generation followed by group evaluation to harness diverse perspectives and overcome self-limiting beliefs, ultimately enhancing team effectiveness and leadership.
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes that potential, much like the gradual improvement seen when learning to ride a bike, is a more reliable predictor of workplace success than past performance, urging leaders to focus on fostering growth in others.
Organizational psychologist Adam Grant emphasizes that while no one excels at a skill initially, effective leadership can uncover and nurture the untapped potential in team members through guidance and practice.
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra outlines strategies for standardizing interview processes to enhance inclusivity, including anonymizing resumes, leveling expectations, reducing affinity bias, and customizing questions for diverse candidates.
To create a more inclusive work environment, organizations should prioritize hiring for “culture add” by diversifying their candidate pool, rethinking job listings to attract underrepresented demographics, and ensuring at least 50% of candidates are non-male and non-white.
In this video lesson, inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of delivering clear, actionable feedback to women of color by using the Situation-Behavior-Impact (SBI) framework to focus on substance rather than vague comments about style.
Inclusion specialist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of fostering inclusivity in meetings by implementing strategies like a “no interruptions” rule and amplifying others’ ideas to ensure that all voices are heard and credited appropriately.
Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes that meetings should be redesigned to foster inclusivity, ensuring equal opportunities for all participants to share and receive credit for their ideas, thereby enhancing innovation and reducing marginalization.
In this video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra highlights the unfair distribution of “office housework,” which disproportionately burdens women and people of color, and offers strategies for ensuring a fairer division of tasks to support career advancement.
In a video lesson, inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra emphasizes the importance of recognizing “exclusionary behaviors,” such as mispronouncing names and stereotype-based assumptions, which can significantly impact marginalized individuals’ well-being and sense of belonging, and suggests asking for correct name pronunciations as a simple act of inclusion.
Code-switching, a natural behavior adjustment based on context, becomes unhealthy when it requires suppressing one’s identity to avoid discrimination, as explored by inclusion strategist Ruchika Malhotra, who highlights its psychological toll and suggests methods to identify unconscious biases.