Soft Skills Insights
We unpack behavior science, habit research, and academic research to provide practical insight into how to upgrade your people's critical thinking, communication, people management, and time management skills
Many hard-working professionals think: “If I can just get to my vacation, then everything will be ok.” But thinking vacations or holidays are how to recover from burnout is like thinking fasting for a...
Developing your critical thinking skills is one of the best ways to set yourself up for ongoing professional and life success. In fact, it’s more important than IQ in determining how many negative lif...
While we have a clear definition of what burnout is, its three symptoms, and the six factors that lead to it, we know relatively little about which burnout recovery approaches actually help people stu...
When it comes to the topic of critical thinking, the most searched for related term is “critical thinking definition.” Over 18,000 people each month use Google to try to find out what critical thinkin...
In what many at the time considered to be the omphalos – literally the center of the world – stood the most important shrine in all of Greece: the oracle at Delphi. People from all over the Greek empi...
Most managers think they give enough feedback, but their team members’ opinions and data on feedback frequency make it clear that this is not true. According to Gallup, just 20% of people strongly agr...
The concept of work-life balance has received a lot of criticism recently, mostly from those who believe it is impossible to achieve. The prevalence of burnout and workplace stress supports the conclu...
Critical thinking ranks among the most in-demand skills for job candidates and leads to better life and job outcomes.
However, both educational institutions and employers have found it challenging ...
What if you could tell if you or a colleague were going to burn out a full year before it was to happen?
For companies and their leaders, the value would be tremendous. Burnout among physicians alone...
Like many of my classmates, shortly after college, I joined the ranks of a top strategy and management consulting firm. I knew I was signing up for long hours.
But the reality of that didn’t really s...
By now, we’ve all been fairly warned of the increasing prevalence and consequences of burnout, but actively preventing it isn’t easy. You first must know what causes it. On this front, most of what
...When the World Health Organization (WHO) updated its definition of burnout in late May to label it as a “syndrome,” it made official what millions already knew by experience: Burnout is real, debilita...
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