Every executive understands the importance of a mission statement, but do leaders know how to craft one that truly embodies the company culture they wish to build? On this note, a well-defined company ...

When delivered constructively, feedback is one of the most powerful tools for improving and strengthening performance in professional settings. The goal is to add some perspective, have the recipient ...

A funny thing about providing feedback—once you start providing your thoughts to others, you will begin receiving their thoughts on you. It’s a natural human reaction that when you suggest someone can ...

This is Part 2 of a two-part series on how effective leaders give feedback. To read part 1, click here. This post provides a structure for how to think through and deliver a meaningful feedback ...

When is feedback more harmful than good? “Feedback can be detrimental if it’s delivered by someone who hasn’t established a foundation of trust and mutual respect,” Madhu Maron, a career coach and ...

Annie Murphy Paul is the author of the forthcoming book Brilliant: The New Science of Smart. When effectively administered, feedback is a powerful way to build knowledge and skills, increase skills, ...

There are things that make your life better at work that are easy: bringing in donuts, summer Fridays or laughing with your colleagues about the latest reality TV scandal. And then there are things ...

INSEAD professor Erin Meyer explains how to offer advice across cultures, ages, and genders. We know that teams mixing people of different generations, genders, and cultures yield better outcomes, and ...

Management often thinks that wage levels or benefits are the most important elements of creating satisfaction in employees. But instead, workers are saying, “Tell me how I’m doing” or “Help me grow ...

Matt Dailey, a software engineer for a data management company, was managing a team with an engineer who wasn’t performing well. This was clear to Dailey—and to the employee. Yet, as I describe in my ...

It’s easy to dwell on the difficulty and pain of recovery from an eating disorder. But it’s important to attend to the beauty of it too. One of the forms of beauty involved in restoring yourself to ...