If you want to build a team that’s engaged, resilient and willing to give their best, start by giving feedback that builds ...

Customer feedback can be a critical resource, but the way that feedback is gathered can make all the difference in terms of ...

My employee recently told me that she would like to get more positive feedback from me. I’m good at giving constructive feedback on how to improve her work, but I will admit that I don’t often ...

I own a lake house. It’s not a waterfront property, but it’s in a nice area where several families have permanent residence. A local family — husband and wife — lost everything in their home to a ...

Most leaders believe that being direct and honest with negative feedback helps employees improve. And it can—when done thoughtfully. Our research shows, however, that when feedback comes across as ...

Self-affirmation theory was proposed by psychologist Claude Steele in the late 1980s and remains popular today. The theory suggests we have a deep desire to craft a personal narrative that we are ...

In our research on what makes work meaningful, one of the most powerful, but underused, leadership practices was the simple act of saying “thank you” (Adams & Myles, 2025). Meaningful work isn’t ...

It’s easy to dwell on the difficulty and pain of recovery from an eating disorder. But it’s important to attend to the beauty of it too. One of the forms of beauty involved in restoring yourself to ...

Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback. Nikkei Asia reports that ...

A lot of us have trained ourselves to expect the worst—not because we want to be pessimists, but because figuring out how to be more positive often feels like an abstract concept, tied to forced, ...

Asking someone for feedback typically goes one of two ways, says Wharton organizational psychologist Adam Grant. You could get some helpful takeaways, or the other person may tread too carefully to ...