In a journey for personal growth, I’ve found developing oneself is often a balancing act: We must not float too directly in one direction, otherwise, we risk skewing our worldview toward a certain ...
Since our last post, I (Suzie) have spent much of my time on round-the-clock phone calls with a variety of doctors, nurses, and medical personnel. I’ve been trying to get to the bottom of a complex ...
The Company Kindness Questionnaire measures kindness by asking employees which of a series of 18 kind acts they would do for a colleague, and which kind acts they would expect a colleague to do for ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Anna Shields, organizational conflict and workplace mediation expert. Kindness is not usually a word one associates with conflict.
A researcher has defined 'kindness' and believes this could hold the key to better communication within healthcare teams and improve care for patients. “Kindness has been strongly linked to patient ...
In American society, we have traditionally tended to evaluate people on a variety of rather superficial measures, notably attractiveness, successfulness, and wealth. Beauty, power, and money, more ...
Four weeks ago I wrote about joy as the antidote to fear and stress, mentioning that joy is, according to Galatians 5:22-23, one of the fruits of the spirit. Today I would like to look at another ...
I’ve learned a lot from the thousands of public school students I’ve asked about kindness. As a researcher at the University of British Columbia, a great deal of my time is spent asking children, ...