6 Common Ways We Rationalize Staying Silent When We’d Be Better Off Speaking Up
The pressure to be silent comes in a dizzying array of disguises, internal and external. Here are some common excuses…
Join Kim Scott’s Free ‘Fighting Tyranny’ Book Club to Better Understand What Russia is Doing in Ukraine
OK, folks, this may seem out of left field. But here goes: I started a book group on a new…
6 Ways to Leverage the Untapped Potential of Think Time
Back in the days of pen and paper and interoffice memos, I worked with a university president who had three…
Practice Radical Candor to Combat These 3 Toxic Workplace Behaviors
A new survey from FlexJobs noted that 68% of people who recently quit their jobs did so without having another…
Is Your Feedback Falling Flat? Practicing Radical Candor Will Fix Your Feedback Fails
Stop for a moment and remember the last time you gave someone feedback. How did it go? If your feedback…
6 Tips for Giving Helpful Feedback
The best feedback is Radically Candid. It Challenges Directly while showing you Care Personally. To make that easier to do,…
A HIP Approach to Feedback: 6 Tips to Help You Practice Radical Candor
We’re all about helping people become more Radically Candid with their feedback. By feedback, we mean praise and criticism. Being Radically…
Why Praising in Public and Criticizing in Private is Key to Giving Feedback Others Will Act On
A good rule of thumb for guidance is praise in public, criticize in private. Public criticism tends to trigger a…
How Does Stereotype Threat Affect Feedback?
One’s awareness of a negative stereotype about a group to which one belongs can actually harm one’s performance: fear of…
3 Lessons On Coaching From an Oura Ring
It was right before I was set to ring in the 2021 holidays, at an Urgent Care in Palm Springs,…