The Importance Of Cultivating Empathy In The Workplace
Today, as the workplace continues to evolve, empathy is often expected in the workforce, with the added expectation that this change comes from the top.
How to support a coworker experiencing bias and prejudice
It’s about starting from a place of shared values, and understanding that bias is a human condition, rather than a character flaw.
What Cultural Difference Can Teach Us About Human Nature
What we think of as human nature is a reflection of our limited cultural experience. Working with different backgrounds can help open our eyes.
How Your Brain Makes You Hold Contradictory Beliefs
Our brains’ penchant for efficiency means they aren’t great at syncing our behaviors with our core principles in every context.
Information Processing Basics: How The Brain Processes Information
The brain is often likened to a processor. A complex computing machine that takes raw data and turns it into thoughts, memories, and cognitions.
Unconscious Bias: How It Affects Us More Than We Know
Unconscious biases are everywhere. From the neighborhood that we choose, the close friends that we have, to the people we date.
How to Evaluate Unconscious Bias Caused by Cognitive Biases at Work
How does unconscious bias caused by cognitive biases hurt you?
Are you guilty of the ‘naturalness bias’?
Hiring managers show bias towards naturally talented candidates over hard workers, according to a new study.
Understanding a Different Culture
You’re living in a vibrant multicultural country, so it’s great that you want to understand cultures other than your own. There are a few ways to do this, but the most important is to remember that we’re all just people who are trying to do the best we can.
Lifelong Learning And Success: Six Ways To Spark Your Curiosity
Curiosity. The birthplace of change and discovery, and the greatest expander of intellect. All the greats since the beginning of time have been curious and creative free thinkers — from Plato, Aristotle and Shakespeare to Elon Musk, Steve Jobs and beyond.
How to Beat Stereotypes by Seeing People as Individuals
We often judge people by their group membership—but research suggests other ways to see each other.
Expert explains importance of respecting other cultures
With approximately 190 countries and seven billion people on Earth, it is not hard to imagine that many diverse cultures exist.
8 critical steps to creating empathy in the workplace
Are you showing your employees enough support?
How To Confront Bias Without Alienating People
It’s about starting from a place of shared values, and understanding that bias is a human condition, rather than a character flaw.
Why does experiencing “flow” feel so good? A communication scientist explains
Flow occurs when a task’s challenge is balanced with one’s skill.
Exactly how long does it take to think a thought?
It may seem like an instant, but just what is the speed of thought?
Stereotypes: Definition And Why They Are Wrong
Stereotypes do affect our society, and they can cause a lot of damage. If you have trouble understanding exactly what a stereotype is, and how it could be bad, here is what you should know.
This is how to measure bias in the workplace (and what to do when you find it)
The director of compliance insights at True Office Learning maintains that the goal isn’t to instantly eliminate bias but to discover how bias influences decisions.

