Learning
Why You Should Talk About Your Positive Actions
You know what the bystander effect is. It’s a social phenomena in which people fail to intervene or act on someone else’s behalf because no one else is doing anything. Your boss has a ridiculous idea but you don’t say anything because no one else does. Imagine, for example, you are sitting in a waiting ...
Is Everyone Coachable? Is Every Skill Coachable?
Given today’s evolving workplace, those who want to improve will have a slight edge. No questions asked. This is not only because they want to get better at their jobs, but also because they care about the impact they can cause. This is why they can be coachable to facilitate their growth, their communication, and ...
Why You Need to Write Down Your Goals
Transcript: There are several steps to effective goal setting. Once you have a goal in mind, one of the best things you can do is write it down. In a study by Dr. Gail Matthews, a Psychology professor at the Dominican University in California, she found that if you write down your goals on a ...
Why You Need to Develop Your Critical Thinking
Transcript: If you are a human being with a brain, then you are thinking all the time. You’re thinking right now. So, what exactly is critical thinking? Dr. Linda Elder and Dr. Richard Paul are prominent authorities on the subject. In their writings, they describe critical thinking as “the discipline of ensuring that you use ...
How to Handle Burnout Symptoms
Transcript: We all know that some stress is good for you, right? I mean, performers and athletes claim that stress keeps their skills sharp and motivates them to achieve their personal best. Stress is the subject of plenty of scientific research. The Yerkes–Dodson law is just one piece of data that illustrates how performance increases ...
Constraints Are Good for Innovation
Transcript: Way back in 1960, Theo Geisel, also known as Dr. Seuss, he accepted a bet with his publisher Bennett Cerf. Cerf challenged Geisel to write a book using only 50 different words, and the result became Green Eggs and Ham, which went on to sell over 200 million copies and is now one of ...
