14 Ways to Help Others During the COVID-19 Crisis
We’re updating this article daily with new ideas for how we can stay generous, helpful, and connecting during COVID-19. It’s a scary and uncertain time. But here at Give and Take, [...]
6 Ways to Boost Social Capital if You’re Working Remote Because of the Coronavirus
Summary: networking and social capital is more important than ever. More and more companies are instituting teleworking policies as a result of the spreading coronavirus. Here are 6 ways to [...]
10 Ways a Collaborative Culture Helps Employees
Extensive research shows why building a sustainably collaborative culture is good for companies. It makes companies more efficient, innovative and productive. But there are huge benefits for [...]
10 Research-Based Ways to Avoid Giver Burnout
Being in the business we’re in, we get to meet a lot of givers. Our cofounders are Adam Grant and Wayne Baker, the world’s leading experts on generosity and asking for help. At [...]
Culture Shock: 4 Ways to Improve Company Culture Using Technology
Company culture is one of the most important (and most nebulous) topics keeping leaders up at night. Whenever people spend enough time together, a culture develops. The business world is no [...]
When the Stakes Are High for Refusing to Ask for Help
Since I advocate for asking for help at work on pretty much a full-time basis, an episode of the Daily, the New York Times’ daily news podcast caught my attention last week. It was about the [...]
5 Signs You’re Burned Out at Work (and 5 Things to Do About it)
In a time when many workers feel the pressure to log unmanageable hours and never take their foot off the figurative gas, it’s too easy to experience burnout at work. You may know the feeling of [...]
7 Simple Ways to Cultivate a Happy Workplace
High employee turnover is the headache of every HR department and costs US companies nearly $11 billion a year collectively. Additionally, it is estimated that lost productivity from unhappy and [...]
11 Ways to Earn Employee Loyalty and Reduce Attrition
Employees are the building blocks of an organisation and ensure the success of a business, so it’s important to keep them happy. Human resources professionals play a vital role in strengthening [...]
Just Ask and Miracles Happen
Excerpted from ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS ASK: How to Master the Most Important Skill for Success © 2020 by Wayne Baker. Published by Currency, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, on January 14. [...]
