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What’s Your Habit Trigger?
“In a nutshell, advice is overrated. I can tell you something, and it’s got a limited chance of making its way into your brain’s hippocampus, the region that encodes memory. If I can ask you a question and you generate the answer yourself, the odds increase substantially.” – Michael Bungay Stanier Recently, I had a ...
What were you doing back in the day?
Most of us move through the day without recognizing the alternatives we have and actively deciding among them. As a result, we give up the feeling of control and mastery to mindfully create options and then select among them. – Ellen Langer, Ph.D. I keep thinking lately that these are the good ol’ days. Right ...
We Turn Your Content Into Scalable E-Learning
Mindscaling recently completed one of our more meaningful and productive custom solutions to date. The end product was both a complete elearning curriculum customized for their content, as well as a custom leadership development curriculum that featured our own content and expertise. The Client Our client is an emerging health care support company. It’s the ...
We Actually Can’t Stand Cruelty
At our core, human beings yearn for connection, understanding, and community with one another. Though cruelty and violence sometimes arise, they are but brief shadows cast against humanity's inherent pursuit of compassion.
Want a thriving workplace? Train your leaders to coach, not just manage.
When employees quit, it’s easy to blame pay, workload, or the competitive job market. But often, the root cause is that employees feel unsupported, overlooked, or disconnected from their managers. In fact, Gallup research shows that managers account for at least 70% of the variance in employee engagement. This has a direct tie to turnover, ...
The United Airlines Crisis of Human Dignity
Someone working in that situation should have had the strength and presence to say, “Hold up. We don’t do that. We don’t treat people like that. It’s not who we are.” The United Airlines event yesterday was an attack on human dignity, the most basic of human needs. The people staffing UA Flight 3411 from ...
