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‘I’ll Interrupt Them Back’: Micro-Feminism is Taking off in the Workplace
Christy Pruitt-Haynes (NLI’s Distinguished Faculty of Leadership and Performance) weighs in on today’s TikTok trend on micro-feminism at work.
April 22, 2024
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Christy Pruitt-Haynes (NLI’s Distinguished Faculty of Leadership and Performance) weighs in on today’s TikTok trend on micro-feminism at work.
Along with recommending new productivity apps, NBC News provides recommendations from CEO and Co-Founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute, Dr. David Rock, on solutions for improving focus.
In this article written for the Harvard Business Review, Dr. David Rock and Jay Dixit provide neuro-science based knowledge around the trending term, ‘quiet quitting.’
Dr. David Rock (CEO and Co-founder of the NeuroLeadership Institute) provides 4 leadership trends to look out for in 2023.
This article from Forbes references Dr. David Rock’s best selling book, Your Brain at Work, to explain how focusing less on energy-draining tasks can significantly progress your career.
Dr. David Rock (CEO & Co-founder of NeuroLeadership Institute), provides Forbes with a starting question that leaders can ask themselves when thinking about building connection and community within their organizations.
Workplace psychological safety can mean a variety of things. Here’s a primer on how to better understand it.
Learn about the AGES model, which sets conditions for optimal learning.
When we’ve invested time and effort into a project, it’s hard to let go — even if continuing will create more losses.
If you think you need to focus #change or #DEI efforts on the people who disagree, you’re missing out on the power of the middle.
As we celebrate Pride month and Juneteenth and look to other national awareness months and holidays, set your sights on goals that show your company’s authentic activism.
Although most people would never admit to following the crowd, social norms are a surprisingly powerful impetus for behavior change.
Any type of job transition is hard, but particularly one in which your identity is so tied up in what you do. That’s what Eric Hipple, a former NFL quarterback for the Detroit Lions, found as he navigated life after pro football.
Science-backed ways to help you make sense of the world in times of crisis.
It can be helpful to reassess situations to regulate our emotions. But when we’re quite stressed, that reassessment could turn malevolent.
Transitions are tough. In this Q&A, we speak with a recent college graduate about what she’s learned about transitions, and why her viral video on the topic struck a nerve.
What brain science says about how to set yourself up for success when you’re starting a new job.
Forming quality connections in the workplace — in other words, practicing the three habits of empathy — creates a culture in which everyone wants to bring their best effort.
Studies show that power leads managers to focus on goals, not people. Here’s how to make employees feel cared for in a time of disconnection.
We spoke with three neurodiversity advocates about how to create more neuro-inclusive hiring practices and workplace cultures.
Companies are finding it hard to bring people back to the office, despite luring them with everything from free lunch to free concerts with Lizzo. Here’s how to bring people back, in a brain-friendly manner.
New research suggests this one cognitive bias may give you grit, but keep you from making the career change you need or send you back to a job not right for you.
Why retooling recognition, generosity, and praise in a hybrid world can help team members become more visible, productive, and appreciated.
Why times of upheaval are the perfect time to change behavior and build new habits.
Why organizational efforts to belong have failed, and how companies can reframe the idea of belonging.
What’s happening in the news is causing conflict in unrelated places, like the office. Here’s what you need to know about the contagion effect, and how to put a lid on the flames of conflict.
In honor of Women’s History Month, we asked the question “How would work be different if no one knew your gender?” Here are highlights from the responses we received.
Is the 4-day work week the cure for burnout? Here’s what the research says.
In this video, we highlight some of our favorite thoughts from the 2022 NeuroLeadership Summit about how to successfully build a hybrid work environment.
Advantage is more than just wealth, education, and demographics. Learn about the science of generational knowledge.
In honor of Brain Awareness Week, we wanted to highlight a few of our favorite facts – and myths – about this complex, intriguing organ.
Women in the workplace have made strides in terms of equal pay and climbing the career ladder, but there’s still more work to be done.
Our 18th NeuroLeadership Summit, featuring Boeing and Procter & Gamble (P&G), included insights about growth mindset, de-escalation, and inclusion.
How do you integrate diversity and inclusion into your organization? To make sure your intent to be inclusive isn’t unintentionally exploitative, have a look at our guide to true inclusion.
For years, there’s been one mainstream way of understanding implicit bias. Now researchers have discovered something unexpected in how our brains react to biases.
Burnout might be something completely different. Read our Q&A with Dr. Noel Lipana for more about the impact of moral injury on motivation.
One of the most daunting and complex challenges of the pandemic has been how to keep workers connected. Eva Majercsik (CPO, Genesys), provides insight into how to best create a sense of belonging in the workplace.
In order to actually change behavior when it counts, new habits must be easily recallable under pressure. Here are three criteria to make behavior changes stick.
What does the neuroscience of running have in common with being a leader in conflict? A lot more than you think, according to five-time Olympian Nick Willis.
Leaders can spend a slew of time and money on organizational change initiatives. But many of them often fail. Here’s why and how to get them right.
What’s the best way to make new habits stick? To shed light on this complex question, we turned to Elliot Berkman, a psychologist at the University of Oregon and the associate managing director of the Center for Translational Neuroscience.
There are many benefits to giving workers more autonomy. But you must plan carefully, or things can backfire.
It’s not your imagination that rudeness is rising in the workplace. Here’s how to tackle incivility and get to a more polite and productive state.
Some anniversaries are harder than others. Here are three tools managers can use to put focus where it matters.
There are four components that create optimal conditions for learning complex tasks in high stakes occupations: a growth mindset, a safe environment, the will, and the way.
Here are some of our greatest hits – no pun intended – on threat, de-escalation, and the skills we need to get along.
Have a look at some of our most popular content this year in performance management.
While the idea of what empathy looks like at work keeps evolving, here’s some of what we learned this year.
As a society that thrives on completion, we often feel that as the finish line approaches, we become more desperate to get there. Research shows that thinking that way can undermine good habit formation. NLI’s Emma Sarro unpacks how we can make sense of this conundrum.
If you think your brain has become more foggy in the past year, you’re not alone. Research shows the pandemic has given us all a bit more cog fog. Here’s how to conquer it.
One soft skill has a place on the battlefield, the boardroom, the breakroom, and the Zoom room. Immerse yourself in stories that illustrate the benefits of compassion in any setting.
Much is made about “Zoom fatigue” and the loss of innovation in a platform-centric workplace. But before we accept these narratives as fact, let’s examine some of the upsides—and how best to leverage them.
People want–and expect– more from their relationship with work, whether it’s purpose, autonomy or status. As we navigate this new era of hybrid work, and look to understand what’s driving
If you allow your employees the space to be autonomous and drive some of their own decisions and approaches to work, it doesn’t so much matter where they’re physically sitting to do that work.
There’s a growing argument, and bodies of research from some places, that “work from home” destroys innovation. In reality, it often does exactly the opposite.
We’ve all had to become practitioners of resilience in the past year. In that time, some myths and misconceptions have arisen. Here’s what the science says.
Leadership will be critical in the year to come, as you navigate uncertainty, fierce competition and resource constraints. One way to get your organization ready for these challenges is to
If they want workers to be more vigilant, fear doesn’t work. Fortunately, there are alternatives.
Heightened uncertainty can have a devastating impact on the performance and mental health of employees, triggering a threat response in the brain that interferes with rational thinking, collaborating and solving
In a world that seems divided over any topic you can think of, a bit of laughter can bridge even the widest gaps. You already knew that intuitively; now learn some of the science to validate it.
Speaking up is essential to share ideas, question decisions, and challenge behaviors. Here are a few big ideas that can help any leader raise quiet voices.
Do your employees feel comfortable speaking up in a constructive manner? Or do they fly blind with disastrous consequences?
Twin crises have renewed our appreciation for open and honest communication, and especially for those who speak up when it matters most.
Employees who are empowered to speak up and offer feedback to their superiors are more likely to offer ideas on how to improve the business.
In recent months, over the course of the COVID-19 crisis, I’ve been talking with hundreds of leaders about how they see the road ahead, and how they’re using that vision
In moments of disruption, there’s an opportunity to shift our mindset to find deeper meaning in our work. Brain science can show us how.
The idea of a four-day workweek received a boost from New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern last week, when she encouraged companies to try it out as a way of
Mindset dictates the way we think about goals and determines how we interpret successes and failures. A growth mindset can help us thrive through crisis.
We can learn a lot from the failed speaking-up moments from ill-fated flights like the Challenger. Learn how to help your team speak up when it matters.
Speaking up does more than just elevate new voices. It creates a richer, more creative network of ideas within an organization.
There are two key habits leaders can build in their cultures to promote speaking up: minimizing a threat state in speakers and those being spoken to.
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