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Webinar Wrap-Up: If you have a brain, you have biases. How do we manage them?

This post originally appeared on the blog in June 2020. Following an encore presentation of the webinar, we’re republishing the summary with added Q&A from the latest broadcast. In this week’s webinar, we explored the neuroscience of bias, helping us understand how to recognize the many ways it…

Communication and Accountability: Best Practices for Nonprofit Organizations

In response to an inquiry from our network, we recently had the opportunity to conduct a best practice study for the nonprofit sector. Like many of our studies, this one had some interesting findings. Some aspects of effective leadership in the nonprofit sector seem to look similar to…

Leadership During a Pandemic: Are Our Behaviors Changing?

Our personal and professional lives have been immensely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course this raises innumerable questions. One question we’ve been getting from practitioners in the MRG community: how will this change the way people work and lead? We’re eager to find answers to this as…

When Ideals Meet Reality: Practical Solutions for Shaping Organizational Culture

Do you find the organizations you work with in a moment of culture contemplation? You are not alone. Even before businesses around the world found themselves in this global moment of reckoning, in recent years many workplaces have come to recognize how vital it is to define and…

Effectiveness Starts at the Top: Best Practices for Presidents and CEOs

Steve Jobs. Jeff Bezos. Indra Nooyi. Meg Whitman. Mark Zuckerberg. Elon Musk. Bill Gates. The names of well-known CEOs jump off the page at us and immediately bring to mind the companies they represent. You can’t think of Steve Jobs without thinking of Apple. Despite dying almost a…

Follow the Evidence: Keeping Research Relevant in Turbulent Times

At MRG, we love research. It is essential to what we do, and it allows us to provide evidence-based advice and insights to our community. We stand by the information we share and do everything possible to ensure that our research insights are accurate and relevant. There are…

What’s on Your Mind? 3 Topics Trending in Challenging Times

While I joined the MRG team just a few years ago, MRG itself has been working with coaches around the world for nearly 35 years, developing a network that’s not only broad, but is also incredibly close-knit. One of the benefits of having so many close relationships has…

Why measure motivation?

There are assessments measuring a vast array of things: behavior, skills, EQ, personality, and many more. Lately, as many people are reexamining their world and their place within it, measuring motivation – which MRG does using the Individual Directions Inventory™ (IDI™) – seems to have gained some momentum….

Change is the only constant. Who is most effective at leading organizational change?

Back in January, when headlines about a novel coronavirus outbreak in China first appeared, I didn’t feel very concerned. I even posted a bad joke about it on my social media account. “Coronavirus on the rise? I’ll probably be fine. Thanks CDC.” After all, other majorly publicized viruses…

Webinar Wrap-Up: If you have a brain, you have biases. How do we manage them?

In last week’s webinar, we explored the neuroscience of bias, helping us understand how to recognize the many ways it influences our responses and actions. More importantly, we identified several actions you can take to help to mitigate its impact in our lives. You can watch the complete…