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RESOURCES

Below, we have listed a few of the resources investigated and recommended by the CLG. You will find a short description of the item, along with some of the major topics explored.

 Books

  • Conversational Intelligence: How Great Leaders Build Trust & Get Extraordinary Results by Judith Glaser

    The key to success in life and business is to become a master at Conversational Intelligence. It's not about how smart you are, but how open you are to learn new and effective powerful conversational rituals that prime the brain for trust, partnership, and mutual success. Conversational Intelligence translates the wealth of new insights coming out of neuroscience from across the globe, and brings the science down to earth so people can understand and apply it in their everyday lives.
    [Coaching, Teambuilding]




  • Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brene Brown

    Researcher and thought leader Dr. Brene Brown offers a powerful new vision that encourages us to dare greatly: to embrace vulnerability and imperfection, to live wholeheartedly, and to courageously engage in our lives.
    [Resilience, Vulnerability]



  • Happiness at Work: Be Resilient, Motivated, and Successful - No Matter What by Srikumar Rao

    Dr. Rao provides short, illuminating lessons that illustrate how we can learn to create joy no matter what.
    [Coaching, Vulnerability, Teambuilding]






  • The Complete Guide to Resilience by Glenn Schiraldi

    Dr. Shiraldi discusses, Why do some people sail through life's storms well, while others are knocked down and out, never to fully recover? Resilience is the key! This book shows you how to bounce back and thrive in any difficult situation.
    [Resilience]



  • Flourish: A Visionary Understanding of Happiness and Well-being by Martin Seligman

    Traditionally, the goal of psychology has been to relieve human suffering, but the goal of the Positive Psychology movement, which Dr. Seligman has led for fifteen years, is different - it's about actually raising the bar for the human condition.
    [Well-being, Coaching, Resilience]



  • The Cost of Bad Behavior: How Incivility Is Damaging Your Business and What To Do About It by Christine Pearson and Christine Porath

    Drs. Pearson and Porath argue that petty incidences of workplace rudeness exact a staggering economic toll that managers would be foolish to ignore. Job stress, for instance, costs US corporations three hundred billion dollars a year, much of which has been shown to stem from workplace incivility.
    [Civility]


  • Mastering Respectful Confrontation by Joe Weston

    Joe Weston, frequent guest/friend of the CLG, asserts that it is possible to stand in your power, speak your truth, hear the truth of others and get your needs met in a way that won't harm you or others.
    [Conflict Resolution]




 Selected Articles & Websites

 Music


  • Happy by Pharrell Williams
    Watch the official music video. For even more happiness, go to his 24HoursOfHappy website.
    [Happiness]

 Videos


  • Susan Cain on Introversion
    Cain explores how modern society evolved to glorify the qualities associated with extraversion. And yet, rather than being a social handicap, introversion isn't just enormously widespread but also socially advantageous and necessary.
    [Diversity, Team Building]



  • 'Just Breathe' Helps Kids Deal with Emotions | Amy Poehler's Smart Girls
    Check out this video featuring children talking about their insights about how their brains work when they are under stress - and what to do about it!
    [Mindfulness]



  • How Wolves Change Rivers
    A perfect example of how diversity works in nature to keep things in balance. And, how bringing a system back into balance can have unanticipated benefits for all.
    [Diversity & Inclusion]



  • The Power of Empathy by Brene Brown
    A humorous look at the differences between empathy and sympathy.
    [Vulnerability]


  • happy, the movie
    Does money make you HAPPY? Kids and family? Your work? Do you live in a world that values and promotes happiness and well-being? Are we in the midst of a happiness revolution? HAPPY explores the secrets behind our most valued emotion.
    [Happiness]








  • ChooseCivility.org



  • Gratitude by Louie Schwartzberg
    Allow your heart to open and drink in the beauty all around you.
    [Gratitude]



  • The Power of Vulnerability by Brene Brown
    Brene Brown studies human connection -- our ability to empathize, belong, love. In a poignant, funny talk at TEDxHouston, she shares a deep insight from her research, one that sent her on a personal quest to know herself as well as to understand humanity.
    [Vulnerability]

 Poetry - A Few Favorites

  • Mary Oliver:

    "Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

    "Hello, sun in my face.
    Hello, you who make the morning
    and spread it over the fields...
    Watch, now, how I start the day
    in happiness, in kindness."





  • David Whyte:
    "Good poetry begins with the lightest touch."

  • Rumi Jelaluddin:
    "Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there."


 Recommended Tools & Resources

  • Appreciative Inquiry Commons is a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.
    [Positivity, Creativity]
  • The World Café . Using seven design principles and a simple method, the World Café is a powerful social technology for engaging people in conversations that matter, offering an effective antidote to the fast-paced fragmentation and lack of connection in today's world. Based on the understanding that conversation is the core process that drives personal, business, and organizational life, the World Café is more than a method, a process, or technique - it's a way of thinking and being together sourced in a philosophy of conversational leadership.
    [Positivity, Creativity]

Selected Handouts