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Is your well-being affected by your “social microclimate”?
To address the challenge of upending their lives and leaving behind familiar social worlds, many universities thoughtfully equip new...


We’ve Got Each Other's Backs!
We often feel, at work and in our personal lives, that we’ve got the backs of people we care for. It may be a feeling we often have, but...
Jane Dutton
3 min read


Longing for Belonging
It’s the beginning of Fall, the usual time for transition and new beginnings. I see people all around me gearing up for classes. The...
Jane Dutton
3 min read


As it turns out, we miss small talk
It is critical that organizations integrate opportunities for casual interaction into their remote working ecosystem.
Jessica Methot
3 min read


High Quality Connections in an Anti-Racist Reckoning
guest post authored by Emily Heaphy I am a White person who has been learning about and working to be anti-racist for about 25 years. I...
Kevin Rockmann
7 min read

Tilling the Soil for Human Connection
with Arne Carlsen, Sally Maitlis and Kristina Workman Finally it is spring! Spring reminds us that we need to ready the soil for new...
Jane Dutton
6 min read


Liquor Store Diaries
She asked if there was anything she could for me. To make my day better...I stood there stumped. I told her she already did it.
Jessica Methot
3 min read


Relationship resilience in the time of COVID-19
These are trying times for connections! Here in the U.S., the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, along with the federal...
John Paul Stephens
2 min read


Seeding High Quality Connections in the Classroom
Co-authored with Arne Carlsen and Sally Maitlis Many of us are teachers and professors. Our classrooms are rife with possibilities for...
Jane Dutton
6 min read


Creating High Quality Relationships with Entitled People
We’ve been hearing a lot about managing and building relationships with entitled people these days. It isn’t surprising that this is a...
Alexandra Gerbasi
1 min read


Unleash your human connecting creativity!
How could we as employees, workers, students, families and friends unleash our creative powers to imagine new ways of creating human...
Jane Dutton
3 min read


To Show Empathy, Stop Saying "At Least..."
Dr. Brené Brown explains the difference between empathy and sympathy: “Empathy fuels connection; sympathy drives disconnection.”
Jessica Methot
2 min read


You Share Brainwaves with Your Best Friend
Recent research using fMRI to scan subjects’ brains while watching short videos show that the brains of close friends respond similarly.
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Who Would Donate a Kidney to a Stranger?
“Anti-psychopaths” are ultra-do-gooders who are extraordinarily compassionate, prosocial, and empathetic, and ready to donate a kidney.
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1 min read


The benefits of witnessing gratitude
Need a way to build high quality relationships at work? Cultivate the expression of gratitude in your social network. Thanks to a series...
Mandy O'Neill
2 min read


Do Talk To Strangers: The Case for Building Acquaintances
Acquaintances play a vital supporting role in our social networks. They anchor us in the social landscape and generate novel experiences.
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3 min read


High-Quality mentoring: A rough around the edges approach
If you were to ask me to describe a “good” mentor, or one that engages in high-quality mentoring relationships, the words “warm”,...
Bess
3 min read


Who should you go to for support?
On a website about high quality connections, it’s easy to forget that finding compassion and empathy from others is sometimes not as...
Mandy O'Neill
2 min read


Nature and nurture (and stress)
Just 20 minutes of nature reduces stress hormone levels, a new study reveals. I read about this research while scrolling the news on my...
Mandy O'Neill
3 min read
What Happens When Old and Young Connect
We can take some of the lessons from this article and apply it to intergenerational workplaces. Intergenerational volunteering in the...
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1 min read
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