Learn the keys to high performance from the co-hosts of the High Performance podcast. The experts: Jake Humphrey and Damian Hughes co-host the High Performance podcast. Humphrey directs and co-founded the Whisper Group; Hughes teaches at Manchester Metropolitan University. The main point: A handful of targeted efforts, attitudes, and habits…

A talent development veteran tells you how to keep growing and advancing in your career — even as a seasoned leader. The expert: Kevin D. Wilde is a talent development expert, currently teaching and researching at the University of Minnesota. …

Recommendations from a psychologist and expert in emotion and self-control. According to University of Michigan psychologist Ethan Kross, your inner voice has a vital purpose — to help you function by playing a part in self-control and taking goal-oriented action. It’s part of the brain’s system to support working memory. …

Maybe you’ll find one or two to hang onto. Have you ever been to a butterfly pavilion? I went to the one in Scottsdale, Arizona, years ago. It was just after I’d left a long relationship and the farm where I’d been living for six years. I was full of…

By taking control of your own stress response to the crisis, you can carve out space for yourself to be calmer and clearer. I don’t mean to stress you out, but there’s a second pandemic going on along with the COVID-19 pandemic. …

One person, one decision at a time You’ve probably heard of Kickstarter, the website where people can raise funds to start businesses. …

Feeling a sense of wonder about learning or pursuing a goal is a way of celebrating in advance — and it can help you get there, too. Outside my house there’s a long, steep set of stairs to the top of a hill. Up there, you can sit at a…

Equating self-care with entertainment or temporary fixes makes light of women’s real needs. Please understand, I’m not belittling spa days and chocolate. I love them too. I’m saying that we need a clear concept of self-care for women. We need to understand our real needs. We need to know that…

Self-care is a key to happiness, health, integrity, and good relationships. But it’s common to resist it — either feeling that other people are required to meet your needs, so that you don’t have to, or, on the flip side, feeling undeserving of or disconnected from your own needs. Self-care…