“What Happened?”: Forensic Self-Awareness in the Workplace
A Troubling Work Meeting You enter a meeting as a manager of a six-person team. You have thirty minutes to consider ways to cut spending on a particular deliverable that [...]
Genuine Kindness Book Release!
On February 23, I will officially release my first book: Genuine Kindness: Achieving Results through Trust and Understanding. Drawing on experiences and personal stories from my thirty-year career in HR, [...]
Designer Pens and Unwritten Rules: How a Lack of Self-Awareness and Communication Can Undermine the Bottom Line
Unwritten rules within a workplace are often a last resort among employees who have no faith in their organization’s commitment to honesty, collaboration, and civility. They frequently develop in a [...]
Self-Awareness Is Not Just Introspection
Self-awareness is a deceptively simple concept, a key component in the mindset I call “genuine kindness,” and one of four critical attributes that make up an approach to workplace behavior [...]
We Are Not Innately Cruel or Kind
Forbes senior contributor Kathy Caprino provides an instructive list of damaging managerial behaviors in her recent article “If You’re Engaging in Any of These Actions, You Shouldn’t Be a Manager.” [...]
What Self-Awareness Isn’t
In our last blog, I discussed the personal benefits of monitoring and correcting our own behavior in the workplace, illustrating ways in which a program of self-management can maximize insights [...]
