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 …
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 …
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 …