Developing Strategy
Would You Invite Employees to Vote on Strategic Direction?
Apply these four lessons to successfully put employees at the heart of strategic planning and benefit from their input.
Human Psychology
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Leadership Skills
Leading With Compassion When a Teammate Has a Terminal Illness
An employee’s health crisis can deeply impact their colleagues. Managers must be prepared to offer appropriate supports.
Leadership Skills
To Navigate Conflict, Prioritize Dignity
Bolstered dignity eases the path to constructive problem-solving and collaboration.
Diversity & Inclusion
Diverse Teams Thrive With Four Elements of Belonging
Social, cognitive, emotional, and physical/sensory neuroinclusion are needed for employees to flourish in the workplace.
Diversity & Inclusion
The Power of Proper Pronunciation
Proper name pronunciation is a simple, accessible practice that can promote inclusion and belonging in the workplace.
Leadership Skills
The Emotional Landscape of Leadership
Researchers have identified six best practices to help leaders better regulate their own and their teams’ emotions.
Managing Your Career
Amid Growing AI, Humanize Communication to Strengthen Relationships
Handwritten notes are a personalized approach to business communication that can help build stronger connections.
Innovation Strategy
Mix Creativity With the Right Mindset to Serve Up Innovation
Research finds fear of failure could keep an innovator from launching a new creative endeavor after an early success.
Organizational Behavior
The Consequences of Unacknowledged Grief in the Workplace
A company’s ability and willingness to support employees grieving after a loss can impact its culture and retention.
Collaboration
How to Engage Skeptics in Culture Interventions
The skill of perspective taking can help build teams’ psychological safety for creative, collaborative problem-solving.
Diversity & Inclusion
When Confronting Bias, Beware the Counterclaims
Managers can learn to recognize specious claims of victimhood by employees called out for engaging in discrimination.
Managing Your Career
Are Mentors Modeling Toxic ‘Ideal Worker’ Norms?
Mentors can help redefine the rhetoric of success that rewards work at the cost of well-being.
Collaboration
Collaboration Is a Key Skill. So Why Aren’t We Teaching It?
New research points to the potential of professional development training for boosting teams’ collaboration skills.
Corporate Social Responsibility
Businesspeople Must Reconnect With Nature to Save the Planet
Forming a stronger bond with nature can benefit business leaders, their organizations, and the environment.
Remote Work
How Shifts in Remote Behavior Affect Employee Well-Being
Leaders can improve remote employees’ well-being and productivity by helping them structure their workdays better.
Culture
To Have Joy in the Workplace, There Must Be Justice for All
New research identifies three focus areas for leaders who want to bring more justice and joy to their organizations.
Skills & Learning
Building the Cognitive Budget for Your Most Effective Mind
Cognitive budgeting can help employees at all levels be more intentional about where they direct their mental energy.
Managing Your Career
Management Articles for Starting the New Year
These five articles from the MIT SMR library offer leadership insights to take into the new year.
Customers
Boosting Charitable Giving Can Also Boost Profits
As brands compete for holiday shoppers, they would do well to learn this lesson: Donations can boost sales and profits.
Technology Implementation
The Human Factor in AI-Based Decision-Making
New research shows that an individual’s decision-making style informs the choices they make when using AI-based inputs.
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