Is your organization led by kind leaders?
This year has been like no other. Most leaders and managers are eager to put it behind them. Yet, we’re not out of the woods. A culture of kindness will make it easier.
Researchers have found that kindness is associated with better and stronger physical and mental health; relationships, teams, and communities; life satisfaction, and even economics.
According to researcher and psychologist Dacher Keltner, PhD, “The science of human emotion, kindness, and goodness are not to be taken lightly, they are actually good for our bodies and minds.”
Unfortunately, uncertainty, increased stress, and frustration have challenged and tested many organizational cultures: the way we collectively perceive, think, and feel at work. Add to that tribalism, polarity, and over exposure to vitriol, and incivility is easily sparked. Organizational culture is damaged, and left unchecked over prolonged periods, altered.
We need leaders who are skilled in kindness.
In Summary
These articles and Article Nuggets explore the need and importance of kind leaders and how to expand kindness at work and throughout your community.
This is a brief synopsis of a 1,600-word and a 1,100-word article, and 5-Article Nuggets*, suitable for consultants’ newsletters for executives and leaders in organizations. It is available for purchase with full reprint rights, which means you may put your name on it and use it in your newsletters, blogs or other marketing materials. You may also modify it and add your personal experiences and perspectives.
The complete articles and Article Nuggets include these important concepts:
- The Importance of kind leaders
- The Leadership skill of kindness
- Practice self-kindness
- Self-kindness boosters
- Leading a kind organization
- Practice mindful kindness
- Expanding kindness to community
- Words of kindness to use everyday
- Daily kindness practices
And references to the following sources:
Tara Cousineau, PhD, The Kindness Cure (New Harbinger Publications, 2018)
Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson, “Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness” Working Knowledge (Harvard Business School, November 2020)
Lauren R. Locklear, Shannon G. Taylor, and Maureen L. Ambrose, “Building a Better Workplace Starts with Saying ‘Thanks’,” Harvard Business Review (November 2020)
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