We’ve Got Each Other's Backs!
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...
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Jane Dutton
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Longing for Belonging
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...
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As it turns out, we miss small talk
It is critical that organizations integrate opportunities for casual interaction into their remote working ecosystem.
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High Quality Connections in an Anti-Racist Reckoning
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...
Jane Dutton
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Tilling the Soil for Human Connection
with Arne Carlsen, Sally Maitlis and Kristina Workman Finally it is spring! Spring reminds us that we need to ready the soil for new...
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Liquor Store Diaries
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.
John Paul Stephens
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Relationship resilience in the time of COVID-19
These are trying times for connections! Here in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the federal...
Jane Dutton
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Seeding High Quality Connections in the Classroom
Co-authored with Arne Carlsen and Sally Maitlis Many of us are teachers and professors. Our classrooms are rife with possibilities for...
Alexandra Gerbasi
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Creating High Quality Relationships with Entitled People
We’ve been hearing a lot about managing and building relationships with entitled people these days. It isn’t surprising that this is a...
Jane Dutton
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Unleash your human connecting creativity!
How could we as employees, workers, students, families and friends unleash our creative powers to imagine new ways of creating human...
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To Show Empathy, Stop Saying "At Least..."
Dr. Brené Brown explains the difference between empathy and sympathy: “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”
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You Share Brainwaves with Your Best Friend
Recent research using fMRI to scan subjects’ brains while watching short videos show that the brains of close friends respond similarly.
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Who Would Donate a Kidney to a Stranger?
“Anti-psychopaths” are ultra-do-gooders who are extraordinarily compassionate, prosocial, and empathetic, and ready to donate a kidney.
Mandy O'Neill
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The benefits of witnessing gratitude
Need a way to build high quality relationships at work? Cultivate the expression of gratitude in your social network. Thanks to a series...
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Do Talk To Strangers: The Case for Building Acquaintances
Acquaintances play a vital supporting role in our social networks. They anchor us in the social landscape and generate novel experiences.
Bess
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High-Quality mentoring: A rough around the edges approach
If you were to ask me to describe a “good” mentor, or one that engages in high-quality mentoring relationships, the words “warm”,...
Mandy O'Neill
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Who should you go to for support?
On a website about high quality connections, it’s easy to forget that finding compassion and empathy from others is sometimes not as...
Mandy O'Neill
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Nature and nurture (and stress)
Just 20 minutes of nature reduces stress hormone levels, a new study reveals. I read about this research while scrolling the news on my...
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What Happens When Old and Young Connect
We can take some of the lessons from this article and apply it to intergenerational workplaces. Intergenerational volunteering in the...
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Be Careful What You Say: How Our Words are Powerful Tools for Action
“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,...
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