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Toxic positivity

  • May 21, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
The Urban Dictionary describes toxic positivity as “the belief that, if you stay positive, you will overcome any obstacle,” to such a degree that you invalidate natural emotional responses...

Brené Brown knows things

  • May 21, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Sarah Schuster writes about toxic positivity, including her take for how Brené Brown describes empathy. Sarah concludes: “If sympathy is shouting down at someone while they’re stuck in a...

Bad brainstorming kills ideas

  • April 3, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Professor, author and innovation expert, Barry L. Cross has written a discussion paper for Queen’s University Smith School of Business on the topic of brainstorming and how storyboarding can help...

Masterful storytelling

  • April 3, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
The Dodo’s “goal is to serve up emotionally and visually compelling, highly sharable animal-related stories and videos to as many people as possible to help make caring about animals a...

Let the music play

  • February 27, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
A few years ago, musician Scott Bradley decided to launch something called Postmodern Jukebox. The idea was to take modern songs and have talented musicians and vocalists perform them...

The big lies of strategy

  • February 27, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
Roger L. Martin is one of the world’s more influential management thinkers and the Premier’s Research Chair in Productivity and Competitiveness and Academic Director of the Martin Prosperity Institute...

The power of empathy

  • February 26, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Helen Riess is an expert on the neuroscience of empathy, including developing online evidence-based online empathy training. She says, “We are all connected on a...

Get a government grant

  • January 28, 2019
  • Lee.Downs
We recently facilitated a webinar with RDP Associates’ Brian Cookson and Greta Bianchi on the topic of getting a government grant for training and development. They succinctly highlight the types of...

Speaking truth to leaders

  • January 15, 2019
  • Lydia Sani
When speaking uncomfortable truths to leaders, leadership, talent management and OD expert, Leslie Michener recommends the do’s and don’ts shown below. Leslie also delivers more insights and stories in...