Soft Skills Insights

Google’s extensive research on what distinguishes its most successful teams (called Project Aristotle) identified psychological safety as the number one predictor of team effectiveness. New...

There are two lines of thought regarding how you should sequence tasks in order to maximize your productivity. One suggests that once you finish one task, you should move onto the next with the...

You’re waiting to be seen by the doctor and it seems like it’s going to be quite a wait. You can choose between joining a line for a specific doctor or staying in a centralized, pooled...

Research shows some unfortunate news for the millions of professionals who have found themselves working from home for the last few months – and their employers. People who work from home...

You do a brainstorming session with your team, compile the list of ideas, and then have everyone vote on which idea they think is most creative (i.e., valuable and novel). The idea with the most...

It would make sense to assume that winning negotiations is the most productive – and therefore desirable – course of action. After all, if you get what you want, you will likely be more...

Procrastination – or at least chronic procrastination – hampers productivity. The reasons why are obvious. However, a moderate amount of procrastination when it comes to certain types...

When COVID-19 sent most professionals home from work in the spring, almost no manager or leader needed to be told that isolation and loneliness loomed as serious risks to their people’s...

The quantified self movement has gained significant momentum over the last few years as more and more people have sought ways to collect data on all aspects of their life.

Similarly, as...

Most of us thoughtlessly sign an email with whatever signature we’ve gotten used to adding before our names. Some even skip signing at all and just allow their auto-populated signature to...

The agile project management methodology, originating among software developers in earnest in the early 2000s, has increasingly crossed into other industries as teams and companies look for ways to...

Many have taken to social media fasts or even more extreme, dopamine fasts, over the last year to improve their happiness and productivity and reduce stress, but does abstaining from social media...