WorkTies

We often feel, at work and in our personal lives, that we’ve got the backs of people we care for. It may be a feeling we often have, but...

It’s the beginning of Fall, the usual time for transition and new beginnings. I see people all around me gearing up for classes. The...

It is critical that organizations integrate opportunities for casual interaction into their remote working ecosystem.

guest post authored by Emily Heaphy I am a White person who has been learning about and working to be anti-racist for about 25 years. I...

with Arne Carlsen, Sally Maitlis and Kristina Workman Finally it is spring! Spring reminds us that we need to ready the soil for new...

She asked if there was anything she could for me. To make my day better...I stood there stumped. I told her she already did it.

These are trying times for connections! Here in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the federal...

Co-authored with Arne Carlsen and Sally Maitlis Many of us are teachers and professors. Our classrooms are rife with possibilities for...

How could we as employees, workers, students, families and friends unleash our creative powers to imagine new ways of creating human...

Dr. Brené Brown explains the difference between empathy and sympathy: “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”

Recent research using fMRI to scan subjects’ brains while watching short videos show that the brains of close friends respond similarly.

“Anti-psychopaths” are ultra-do-gooders who are extraordinarily compassionate, prosocial, and empathetic, and ready to donate a kidney.

Need a way to build high quality relationships at work? Cultivate the expression of gratitude in your social network. Thanks to a series...

Acquaintances play a vital supporting role in our social networks. They anchor us in the social landscape and generate novel experiences.

If you were to ask me to describe a “good” mentor, or one that engages in high-quality mentoring relationships, the words “warm”,...

On a website about high quality connections, it’s easy to forget that finding compassion and empathy from others is sometimes not as...

Just 20 minutes of nature reduces stress hormone levels, a new study reveals. I read about this research while scrolling the news on my...

We can take some of the lessons from this article and apply it to intergenerational workplaces. Intergenerational volunteering in the...

“Yet we, that is, even philosophers, set some limits to the amount of nonsense that we are prepared to admit we talk.” ~J. L. Austin, How...

Via high-quality interactions of course! According to new research from Sara Soderstrom and Klaus Weber, successful interactions between...