You're going to learn positive communication skills for leaders. In a world that seems more divided than ever, these 6 key skills will help you unite your team and create positive change.

Learn to be more open by disclosing in helpful ways in the workplace. Self-disclosure can be a bit tricky but worth it if you get it right.

Long before the feminist movement for equal workplace rights, over 100,000 women known as the Harvey Girls traveled west to work as waitresses along the transcontinental railroads. These women played a significant role in opening up...

Conflict is an inevitable part of project life.

And it's not always

bad.​

But,
often, it is.
It can be stressful, harm productivity, spoil working relationships, and lead to

damaging behaviors.

And fixing...

4 Lessons About Inclusion and Unconscious Bias is a video that explains unconscious biases – the prejudices we have and our tendency to make judgments about individuals or groups without being fully aware of what we are doing. Even the...

The video explores the evolution of workplace technology, focusing on the impact of the handheld calculator introduced by Texas Instruments. It highlights how this innovation revolutionized office tasks, leading to advancements in...

Rick Maurer’s Feedback Toolkit is a fabulous resource for anyone who wants to equip themselves with knowledge and techniques for a wide variety of feedback scenarios. Rick Maurer is clearly a master of feedback.

Ryan & Deci are the founders of Self Determination Theory (SDT). It's possibly the most substantial modern body of research on motivation. As such, it is essential for modern managers to understand the basics.

John Goldthorpe and his colleagues offer us a sociological model of workplace motivation: Work Orientation Theory.



Goldthorpe's theory is culturally rooted in 1960s Britain. But I do think the principles underpinning it are...

Emotional Intelligence is an appealing model with a lot of ‘face validity’. That is, subjectively people see it as covering the concept it purports to measure. However, there is also a lot of academic criticism of the concept. So, in...

Ralph Waldo Emerson said that: ‘life is a search after power’. If that is true, what is it we are searching for? We need to start our exploration of power in organizations by understanding what is power?

Motivation is not the opposite of de-motivation. That's the conclusion that Frederick Herzberg came to. Rather, he recognized there are two sets of factors: Motivators, and Hygiene factors. In this video, we examine Frederick Herzberg's...

In this video, let's start our solid content on workplace motivation with the fundamentals of motivation: <br/> -<br/> Drives
- Motives
- I<br/>ntrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
- What happens when we find ourselves blocked

Team building is an important part of getting the best from your team. This is a thorough primer for any manager who needs to get team building right.

Becoming likeable and having the charisma to attract people to you depends in large part on your ability to build rapport with people. So, in this video, I'll discuss how to build rapport.. and how not to.

The Hawthorne Experiment - conducted by Elton Mayo - is one of the classic experiments that led to an important part of our understanding of motivation. It leads to a simple, yet fundamental, process model of how motivation works in the...

Abraham Maslow' Hierarchy of Needs is possibly the best known model of motivation. As a motivation theory, the hierarchy of needs is useful, but probably over-used.

Clayton Alderfer created a variation on the best-known needs theory of motivation: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs. Alderfer's model is known as ERG Theory. ERG stands for the three primary needs that Alderfer identified:



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This video emphasizes the importance of finding balance in a fast-paced world by disconnecting from work, spending quality time with loved ones, and taking time for personal relaxation. It highlights the benefits of simple activities...

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The Gilded Age was a period of unprecedented industrial and economic growth in the United States – but were the men at the helm captains of industry or robber barons out for their own?

Civil rights activist Dorothy Bolden made it her mission to empower America’s working class. Her activism empowered domestic workers across the nation – and created noticeable change in the workplace for thousands of Black women.

The video Video Introduction “Labor Unions” explains how labor unions formed in the United States and discusses the advantages and disadvantages of labor unions.

Karl Weick's Partial Inclusion is a useful concept to explain the various degrees to which organizational employees are committed to their workplaces. Weick explained this in his 1979 book, The Social Psychology of Organizing.