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Acknowledgement at Work
A recent series of studies led by Harvard Business School professor Julian Zlatev showed the importance of acknowledging others' difficult emotions at work, finding that participants were more likely to trust coworkers who acknowledged their feelings, especially...
Pro Se Cross-Examination of Victims
My first law review article was recently published in the Brooklyn Law Review, entitled, "Protecting the Constitution While Protecting Victims: Challenges to Pro Se Cross-Examination." I was motivated to write on this subject after hearing numerous anecdotal accounts...
Some Light in the Darkness
It's been such a hard week. Those images of beautiful children in Texas, lost along with the educators fighting to save them, have brought me to my knees. I wanted to share with you some good news, though. I posted recently on my various social media platforms about...
How to Have the Elephant-in-the-Room Conversation
It’s been a hard week. After a hard month, after a hard two years. We’ve experienced so much: Covid, George Floyd, anti-Asian hate, political upheaval, the invasion in Ukraine, mass shootings again and again. And that’s just the stuff going on in the world; individual...
Keeping Your Cool When the Conversion Gets Hot
As we navigate returns to the office, political change, and more, at a time when we're all a little burned out and rusty on our communication skills, maybe this will help. My recent column for PsychCentral covers how to keep your cool when the conversation gets hot.
Leading with Empathy or Leading with Fear
I have been talking a lot recently about the choices that leaders have to make, all the time, between leading with fear or leading with empathy. Do we start the hard, messy conversation? Do we take action against the yeller? The decision almost always comes down to,...
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