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Dr. Bill Howatt: February 13, 2024
Each of us carries an invisible backpack containing our personal adversity load, social determinants, circumstances, and physical health, which influences the energy drained as we move through our day.
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Dr. Bill Howatt: January 3, 2024
The workplace significantly influences employees’ experiences; every interaction creates positive or negative emotions. If they have more negative...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: December 8, 2023
A psychologically safe culture is an emotionally safe, caring, inclusive and welcoming environment. Employees feel safe speaking up and sharing their...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: November 14, 2023
Resiliency is a trainable intrapersonal skill. Despite common perception, it is not intuitive; it must be learned and practiced. The APA suggests it...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: October 20, 2023
When biology upsets the nervous system, and a worker gets caught in a cycle of mental exhaustion and unpleasant emotions (stress, fear of failure,...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: September 18, 2023
Emotional ruptures can occur when people have interactions that they feel are unfair, aggressive, or immoral. Three common drivers of emotional...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: August 31, 2023
Are your employees afraid of making mistakes? If you said that you don’t think so, how confident are you that employees would say the same? Winston...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: August 10, 2023
Learned helplessness is a painful psychosocial hazard that may not be on your radar but should be. Psychology Today says, “Learned helplessness...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: July 7, 2023
I was recently asked to assist the board and leaders of an organization in understanding how they could leverage environment, social, and governance...
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Dr. Bill Howatt: June 12, 2023
When employees feel included, welcomed and psychologically safe, they feel happy, and when they’re happy, they’re more productive. In 2019, Oxford...
