Workers spend almost four hours per day on average communicating through email, instant messaging, and video or phone calls, according to a 2023 survey from Zoom. Alison Wood Brooks, author of Talk: ...

Not every conversation is collaborative. Some people don’t want to negotiate—they want to dominate. In these cases, emotional appeals and problem‑solving frameworks often fail. For years, many people ...

Managers and employees need to have meaningful conversations. In professional collaborations, the reluctance to engage in challenging conversations can unravel the threads that bind a team together.

This month’s executive function skill is working memory. Executive function skills are brain-based skills that help us “get things done” easily—or not—depending on our particular brain. Working memory ...