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Embracing Group Diversity

Diversity is more than just a buzzword. It is a tool that managers can use to gain a broader perspective and a more robust working group. Whether your company is considering entering a contract with an overseas vendor, or simply filling a vacant position, you need to...

Using Emotional Intelligence to Improve Team Creativity

A great team can make even hard work and tight deadlines feel like meaningful and enjoyable work. As team leader, you can do a lot to point your coworkers and employees toward success. But what can you do when your team feels stagnated and the ideas simply are not...

Why Leaders Should Listen Louder than You Speak

Being a great leader depends on being a strong communicator. But communication is a two-way street. Rather than focusing solely on how you convey your messages to your team, you should take some time to develop skills that will allow you to listen louder than you...

Are Leadership Assumptions Stopping You from Being Open to Change?

As a leader, you likely got to where you are through a combination of competence, having the right skills, and knowing when to step into something new. But now, you may find that you aren’t as open to change as you were before assuming a leadership role. It may be...

How Acceptance and Emotional Regulation Can Prevent Burnout

When business leaders, managers, and high performers start to feel the stress of long hours and lack of institutional support, the problems can cascade throughout your entire organization. If absenteeism, high turnover, or detachment is beginning to set in in your...

Introducing Karen Sherwood, Psychoanalyst for Your Business

Stanislaw Consulting is excited to start 2026 off by announcing that Karen Sherwood is joining the executive coaching team as a partner to founder David Stanislaw. With a deep history of psychoanalytical training and experience, business ownership, and executive...

How to Be Honest With Yourself About Emotions at Work

Your emotions affect everything you do, including the way you interact with your coworkers and how you make decisions on the job. But many employees, team leaders, and even supervisors never take their emotions into account when doing their jobs. Here is how to be...

Do Your Advisors Have Swiss Cheese Consciences?

When you are working with a financial advisor or other fiduciary, you expect them to keep their focus on your company’s needs and your personal and professional goals. But gaps in morality and conflicting interests can cause some advisors to have Swiss cheese...

Who Can Excel at Resolving Conflict? 

Knowing the skills and strategies for healthy disagreement can help you excel at resolving conflict, no matter what your job title is.

Combating Hopelessness in the Workplace

When it comes to hopelessness in the workplace, negative feelings can lead to more than just a bad mood. If you are a manager, here is what you can do to put hope and purpose back in your employees’ work.

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Do Your Employees Have Leadership Potential?

Effective future leaders within organizations are sometimes hard to assess at first glance. This article by Rick Lash, the director of the Leadership and Talent practice at Hay Group, highlights our view of the ingredients of effective leadership. Effective future...

The Value of Negative Thinking

The Value of Negative Thinking

Instead of blind optimism and always looking on the bright side, is there value in negative thinking? Can negative thinking even produce happiness and/or a sense of well-being? Instead of blind optimism and always looking on the bright side, is there value in negative...

Losing Our Silence

Losing Our Silence

Did you know that most of us are progressively having fewer and fewer moments when we are not in the midst of a kind of sensory bombardment? You know, sounds coming at you from everywhere, spaces more and more filled with advertisements, posters, and news. Did you...

Grumpy Employees – Can Grumpy be a Good Thing?

Grumpy Employees – Can Grumpy be a Good Thing?

Just because you may have some grumpy employees, does not necessarily mean that they are bad employees. Not everyone was born with a sunny disposition. There is a big difference between an employee with a bad attitude and a grumpy employee. Further, a grumpy or two in...