Become a Pro at Managing Conflict
Internal conflict drives external conflict. Your first task at getting good at managing conflict is to become aware of all the signs and...
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Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Look at Me When You Say Thank You
Workplace culture takes place in the small repeated micro practices of all of its members. It is not the large initiatives, one time...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Panic Attacks in the Workplace
How can you help someone when they are beginning to spin into overwhelm? What can you do to help yourself or the people around you when...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Managing Grief in the Workspace
Grief is the byproduct of caring about something. You cannot be sad about something leaving, dying, or failing unless you have invested...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Where Are The Apologies in Twitter World?
What happens when you get it wrong? What happens when you are responsible for sending out disrespect, misinformation, or unkindness? ...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Redefining Work Breaks
Breaks can be used to improve workplace culture, support staff wellness and the building of resilience skills. If you need help trying...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Myth of the Family Dinner
How many meals do you eat together as one household per week? How many meals do you eat together as one household undistracted? Not in...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Can You Teach Social Emotional Skills from a Box?
You cannot teach social emotional skills with just words, visuals, research and stellar lesson plans. You have to do the work. You need...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Stop Using the Word Bully
A Guide for Parents In the majority of cases what we call “bullying” is someone poorly managing their own nervous system. What we must do...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Letter to Leo
Pets have the ability to teach, to heal, to bring companionship and light into someone's world. They can become the safe place to...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Is There a Safe Way to Vent?
How can you avoid the toxic ways in which venting is expressed in the workplace? How do we help our workplace communities avoid...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Small Steps Big Changes
The benefits of including small focused interruptions in workplace culture Building resilient workplace cultures is not complicated. It...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Building Resilience in the Workplace
3 Strategies to Bring Into Every Workplace to Build Resilience and Strengthen Workplace Culture The small but daily choices we make...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Adjusting to the New Normal
Find the right time. Take small steps. Repeat. This will help you adapt to a new normal. Adjusting to a new normal is going to require...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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There is An Opening
A crisis leaves space where hard feelings can become undone and softened. Vulnerability provides an opportunity for broken spaces to...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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What is Crisis?
We think that crisis arrives as a sudden explosive disruption but that is an illusion. The roots of crisis move slowly. There is a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Art of the Open Face
Take away that face and facial recognition pattern and you have a nervous system that is unable to take care of itself. And that is a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Let Your Children Carry Their Own Backpack!
Last year while walking on my home commute from my workday, I watched two of my elementary aged students toss their back packs to what...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Countering the Culture of Slights
I was listening on a podcast where one of the guests was told about an incident where a female staff member felt harmed when a male...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Brain Based Workplace — 4 Strategies to Help Employees and Executives Optimize Productivity
In an interview with Sam Harris, Daniel Goleman states, “As your mind is, your life becomes.’ Goldman talks about screen time as...