resilience

What We’re Reading Now

What We’re Reading Now

Compassionate leadership is a process of regular learning, growth, and practice. Leaders draw on wisdom from a diverse range of perspectives and voices. Here are five book recommendations that will strengthen your own journey of compassionate leadership.

Core Curiosities of Compassionate Leaders

Core Curiosities of Compassionate Leaders

This week, two new cohorts began their eight-week journey in our Compassionate Leadership Certification Training. We asked these incoming leaders from around the world about their top curiosities pertaining to compassionate leadership. Are your curiosities similar to theirs?

Are You Being Kind to Yourself?

Are You Being Kind to Yourself?

Does your inner voice ever say things to yourself that you would never say to others? Do you find it hard to forgive yourself for mistakes or bounce back after a setback? We can all strengthen our capacity for self-kindness by recognizing its gifts, understanding our resistance to it, and practicing to become the leader that creates a culture of safety and caring.

The Bookends of Compassionate Leadership

The Bookends of Compassionate Leadership

The journey of life and leadership is a never-ending series of cycles, requiring different optimal action depending on the circumstances. There are two constants central to the work of every compassionate leader: self-compassion and the recognition of our shared common humanity. These two provide a powerful foundation for compassionate leaders to act, and guide their choice of the approach to use.

Courageous Compassion

Courageous Compassion

We all recognize that compassion requires kindness. The research shows that compassion comes more easily to those who nurture instinctively. But if we stop there in our consideration of compassion, we miss out on some of the most important and powerful parts of compassion – those parts that exhibit courage and strength. In organizations in particular, courageous compassion is particularly necessary.

Put an End to Blaming and Shaming

Put an End to Blaming and Shaming

Every organization, every team, everyone faces failure at different times. How we respond can make all the difference in how quickly we bounce back and learn to innovate in the future. In many organizations or teams, the typical response to negative events is shame and blame. To create resilient, learning cultures, leaders need instead to respond with compassionate actions.

Leading with Your Whole Self

Leading with Your Whole Self

Compartmentalizing your life can lead to chaos, rigidity, and even dis-ease. How might you benefit if you showed up to work with your whole self? Here are four benefits to creating a more integrated life.

Compassion 2.0 Podcast Preview: Jane Dutton and Monica Worline Part 2

Compassion 2.0 Podcast Preview: Jane Dutton and Monica Worline Part 2

Welcome to this week’s new episode of the Compassion 2.0 Podcast. In Part 2 of Lori Schwanbeck’s conversation with two leading pioneers, professors Jane Dutton and Monica Worline, we look at the business case for compassion in organizations.

Resilience Rules: How Organizations Bounce Back

Resilience Rules:  How Organizations Bounce Back

How will your organization emerge from the current crisis? Resilient organizations emerge from difficult circumstances stronger than before the challenging times. These three evidence-based practices will equip you to lead your organization so that it emerges from this crisis stronger than ever.

We Are All Just Human

We Are All Just Human

In one unexpected fell swoop, the boundaries between work and home came tumbling down. Now that this genie is out of the bottle, what will we do with it?