A Fresh Look at “Not Enough Boots on the Ground”
When working toward results in business certain overused sayings are borrowed from the language of war. This practice inherently says there is an enemy that must be overcome. Instead of being …
10 Civility Insights #Peopleskills – Feb 8, 2015
Here are the 10 questions Kate Nasser asked on her Sunday, Feb 8, 2015 Twitter Chat. Reviewing it here gives us an opportunity to gain insight about civility and leadership …
What is the Connection Between Leadership and Civility?
The Wallace Centers of Iowa offered a series of lunches on leadership and civility for Spring 2015. Since the series was announced, people have been asking about the link between the …
10 Civility Insights from Twitter Chat about People Skills
Here are the 10 questions Kate Nasser asked on her Sunday, Feb 1, 2015 Twitter Chat. This as an opportunity to gain insight about civility and leadership in the workplace. …
Speaking Up: Small Words Matter
In a recent post, Leading With Civility: 4 Lessons for Speaking Up at Work, the case was made for the importance for speaking up in the workplace. When speaking up even small …
The Fine Art of Valuing Differences
Some of the beliefs that you hold valuable stand in direct opposition to the beliefs of others. Yet we are expected to live and work with people who hold those …
Leading With Civility: 4 Lessons for Speaking Up at Work
When people think about civility, they often think about being kind, having manners or being nice. Civility is a path to results that leads to respect for others. But it …
Compassion: An Antidote to Incivility
Consider this quote by Henry A. Wallace, a statesman, scientist and leader from an earlier generation. It suggests his approach to incivility. Today, we still see faces distorted by anger. …
Leading with Civility: 5 Steps to Include Others
No matter where you work, there are probably people that feel left out; they might even appear like they want to be on their own. There can be all kinds …
Civility in the News: The Problem with Civility
In the December 1, 2014 edition of The New Yorker, an article entitled The Civility Wars caught our attention. It brings to light concerns with the concept of civility. The …
A Practice of Gratitude: Four Outcomes that May Surprise You
A post entitled Grateful Moments by Tabby Hinderaker of daily ARC Coaching caught our attention after we wrote Challenge: Gratitude in the Workplace. On her blog, she shared her personal …
Recap: Diversity and Inclusion Forum
The Greater Des Moines Partnership offered the 2nd Annual Executive Forum on Diversity & Inclusion today. The goal of the event was to facilitate a dialogue on diversity and inclusion-related issues and …
Book Review: Choosing Civility by P.M. Forni
How does a professor of Italian fiction and poetry end up becoming a leading expert on civility? P.M. Forni realized he wanted to teach his students to be kind human …
A Challenge: Gratitude in the Workplace
The concept of gratitude came up in our last post. Digging deeper into this notion, we discovered a survey that was completed by The John Templeton Foundation. Gratitude is related to …
Advice for Kids Applied to the Workplace
This week a timely article “7 Do’s of Trick-or-Treat: A Lesson in Civility,” was published from PBS Kids. The underlying theme of respect is emphasized in the first six tips. …
Millennial Generation’s Hope for Civility
Each week we look for what others are saying about civility. Last week, public relations firm Weber Shandwick along with public affairs firm Powell Tate, published the fifth installment of …
Civility and Brain Science
What does the latest research on the brain, especially from a new field of interpersonal neurobiology, have to teach us about civility? Consider a time when you have noticed that …
What is civility?
There are many ways to define civility. Here is a typical dictionary definition from www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civility ci·vil·i·ty noun sə-ˈvi-lə-tē : polite, reasonable, and respectful behavior civilities : polite actions and words At …