Weekly Round-Up: Creating a Culture of Kindness & Empathy, Skills for Leading Through a Pandemic, Taking Action to Advance Equality and 13 Research-Backed Actions to Communicate Effectively

Welcome to my weekly round-up of the best-of-the-best recent leadership and communication blog posts I’ve seen over the past week. Given the current state of business today and how much has changed because of COVID-19 and calls for racial justice, I’m continuing to use the Weekly Round-Up as a place to share some of the best resources I’m seeing to help leaders and communicators navigate these challenges with their teams. 

This Week’s Round-Up of Leadership and Communication Blogs:

• 4 Ways to Create a Culture of Kindness and Empathy
  By Shira Miller (@theshiramiller via @RaganComms), Ragan Communications
  
  Research has shown that kindness can create a competitive business advantage. Here are four ways to create a kinder workplace.

  “Recognize the inspirational power of virtue, encourage and reward unselfish behavior, and make decency a prerequisite for leadership. We could all use a huge dose of kindness, grace and understanding right now. Displaying these admirable qualities isn’t just the right thing to do, or a nice “add-on” when you can find it at work…”
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