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Bruna Martinuzzi Articles

Written by: Bruna Martinuzzi

The Green-Eyed Monster: Keeping Envy Out Of The Workplace: - Click To Read Article
5 tips for preventing envy in the workplace.

The Neglected Art of Receiving - Click To Read Article
Not knowing how to receive deprives people of the joy of giving. This article provides 5 tips to remind you to receive gracefully.

The Art of Giving Thanks - Click To Read Article
New studies who that gratitude produces tangible physical and emotional benefits. Here are 5 tips for practicing gratitude.

The Power Of The Mind: How To Train Yourself To Be More Successful - Click To Read Article
This article outlines five important discoveries in brain research that can help us improve our personal and professional lives, as well as help others in our sphere of influence.

Vocal Grooming: Gossiping in the Workplace - Click To Read Article
While it is not realistically feasible to suppress gossip in the workplace, what can we do to mitigate its harmful effects? This article provides 9 helpful tips.

No Batteries Required: 8 Conflict Resolution Tips - Click To Read Article
Learning to deal with emotions in negotiations or conflict situations helps us to be more effective whether in our professional or personal life. This article provides 8 tips for effective conflict resolution.

Lower Your Stress Level: Lessons from Baboons - Click To Read Article
8 tips for eliminating the harmful effects of stress from your life.

Monkey Business: Fairness in the Workplace - Click To Read Article
Fairness is often a question of perception, so while we may do our best to practice fairness, others may not always view us as fair. Of all the leadership qualities, this is perhaps one of the hardest to practice on a consistent basis. This article provides seven practical tips to help you be fair in the workplace.

The Importance of Character - Click To Read Article
Character is what is deep inside us; it's who we are on a daily basis, when things go well and when things go wrong. It's who we are when no one is looking. 5 tips to help you display character in your leadership.

The Chain of Habits - Click To Read Article
How to break bad habits: 5 powerful tips.

Your Inner Life: A Portrait of Who You Are - Click To Read Article
Our inner life expands or shrinks in direct proportion to what we focus on. Do you pay attention to your inner life? Do you live in more than one world? Here are six tips to inspire you to pay more attention to your inner life.

Your Character on Steroids - Click To Read Article
How to build resilience: 10 Steps

Simpllicity: The Neglected Value - Click To Read Article
6 practical pointers to bring simplicity into your personal and work life.

Are You Enchanting? - Click To Read Article
This is a review of Guy Kawasaki’s book, Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds and Actions.

A Different Kind of High: The Power of Altruism - Click To Read Article
When we perform good deeds, we experience a myriad of physiological benefits from feeling more calm and peaceful, to overcoming depression, to better recovery from heart attacks and even increased longevity. Altruism-doing good deeds and performing service for others out of the goodness of our heart-is an ipso facto reciprocated gift. This article provides 7 ways to foster altruistic behaviors in our life.

The Criticism Sandwich: A Stale Idea - Click To Read Article
The criticism sandwich is the staple of Management 101 primers, advising us to lay on some praise before delivering any criticism and to complete the process by adding another layer of praise. Most of us intuitively know, from having been at the receiving end of what feels like faux praise, that this process almost never works. Now we have scientific proof of why this is a management orthodoxy that should be abandoned.

Self-Efficacy: The First Requisite for Success - Click To Read Article
The term self-efficacy is the brain-child of Albert Bandura, Professor Emeritus of Social Psychology at Stanford University. Hisresearchhas shown that individuals with high self-efficacy are more likely to put a greater effort in achieving specific outcomes; they also attribute any failure to things that are within their control, rather than blaming others or the conditions surrounding them. Most importantly, they are able to recover quicker from setbacks and are, therefore, more likely to succeed in realizing their goals.

Intuition: An Untapped Resource - Click To Read Article
What is intuition exactly? The Oxford Dictionary defines the term as “the ability to understand something instinctively, without the need for conscious reasoning.” It is a keen and quick insight, independent of any reasoning process. While intuition is important in all endeavors, it is particularly important for those in a leadership role.

The 90-Second Pause - Click To Read Article
This article is about the importance of emotional self-control, a key component of emotional intelligence. It offers several tips for managing your emotions, including the powerful tool of the 90-second pause.

How to be a Mensch in Business - Click To Read Article
This is an interview with Guy Kawasaki on what it means to be a mensch in the business world.

What's Empathy Got to Do with it? - Click To Read Article
Empathy is valued currency. It allows us to create bonds of trust, it gives us insights into what others may be feeling or thinking; it helps us understand how or why others are reacting to situations, it sharpens our “people acumen” and informs our decisions. This article provides 10 tips for exercising your empathy muscle.

The Agile Leader: Adaptability - Click To Read Article
Adaptability – the ability to change (or be changed) to fit new circumstances – is a crucial skill for leaders, and an important competency in emotional intelligence. Here are 8 tips to consider in your quest for adaptability.

I Swear by Apollo: Being Accountable to Yourself in Leadership - Click To Read Article
One of the key leadership competencies is holding others accountable. But a leader cannot expect to hold others accountable successfully if he is not holding himself accountable first.

Being Accountable to Yourself in Leadership (Part II) - Click To Read Article
8 tips for practicing accountability in leadership.

Likeability: It's an Inside Job - Click To Read Article
Likeability is so important that it can trump competence! This article provides 9 tips for developing genuine likeability.

Forgiveness: The Intelligent Choice - Click To Read Article
To forgive someone is to waive our right to resentment, anger or other negative reaction to something they have done that justifies our response. This is not about condoning or excusing their actions, but about intentionally deciding to let go of a sense of offense at snubs, ego scuffs, disappointments and other garden variety occurrences that pull our strings. Making forgiveness a part of our operating system is a key aspect of emotional intelligence: it is taking ownership of our own emotional reactions. This article provides 7 useful tips for practicing forgiveness.

Hope: Don't Leave Home Without It - Click To Read Article
With the unease caused by the Great Recession, it is easy to spiral into a negative state of mind and ignore the promising signs that the worst of the panic is past. Don't give up hope. This article provides 8 tips for inspiring yourself and others to have a positive outlook.

Get Inside Your Head: How Knowing Your Brain Can Make You a Better Leader - Click To Read Article
Find out what David Rock’s SCARF model can teach you about threats and rewards that govern our behavior and gain some strategies for regulating your own emotions and managing others’ behavior. Understanding how your brain works can give you a definite edge as a leader.

Optimism - Click To Read Article
Optimism is an attitude that can be learned. Here are eleven tips for practicing optimism.

The Most Beautiful Word in the English Language - Click To Read Article
We often confuse humility with timidity. Humility is not clothing ourselves in an attitude of self-abasement or self-denigration. Humility is all about maintaining our pride about who we are, about our achievements, about our worth – but without arrogance. Humility is one of the admirable characteristic of Level 5 leaders. These leaders direct their ego away from themselves to the larger goal of leading their company to greatness. These leaders are a complex, paradoxical mix of intense professional will and extreme personal humility. They will create superb results but shun public adulation, and are never boastful. What does it take to be such a leader?

An Iron String: The Power of Trust - Click To Read Article
Trust pervades nearly every aspect of our daily lives. It is fundamental in the healthy functioning of all of our relationships with others. In today’s uncertain climate, it is not surprising that study after study shows a decline in the trust level individuals have of business and political leaders and institutions. If lack of trust is an issue which causes you concern in your leadership, what can you do to manage perceptions of trust in an unstable and slippery environment? This article provides 12 actionable steps.

Degrees of Giving: Leading by Generosity - Click To Read Article
When we think of generosity, our thoughts automatically drift to gifts of money or charity. In the context of leadership, there are other gifts that don’t have a monetary value, but whose value is beyond price. These include giving someone a chance; giving someone the benefit of the doubt; and giving others a reason to want to work for you. It entails giving others latitude, permission to make mistakes, and all the information that they need to do the job. It’s giving them the authority that goes with responsibility – it’s giving them due credit for their ideas. In a nutshell, all of this translates to generosity of spirit, a quality we admire in leaders.

How to Be a Mensch - Click To Read Article
12 Inspiring tips for how to be a Mensch.

Gandhi's Neurons: The Practice of Empathy - Click To Read Article
“If there is any one secret of success,” said Henry Ford, “it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.” This is empathy. Not an easy undertaking, even though scientists have now proven that we are indeed wired for empathy: Mirror neurons, also dubbed Gandhi’s neurons, act as a “neurological Wi-Fi” to help us connect with other people’s feelings. This article provides 5 important tips for practicing empathy as a leader.

The Pursuit of Flow - Click To Read Article
Being "in the flow" is that enthralled state, when your level of skill matches the level of the challenge. You become so engrossed in what you do that you forget to eat. You escape time. We’ve all been there. It’s what athletes call “being in the zone”, what musicians refer to as “being in the groove”. The concept of flow is the brainchild of psychologist Mihali Csikszentmihalyi. This article provides 10 practical tips for achieving this coveted state.

A Firewall for Bad Moods: How to Prevent Emotional Contagion - Click To Read Article
While both positive and negative emotions are contagious, negative ones spread even faster than positive ones. This has important implications for both our personal and organizational well-being. If you are a leader, consider that managing your moods is one of your chief responsibilities. This article provides you with 12 tips for managing your moods in the workplace.

Are You Talking to Me? Rx for Extraverts and Introverts - Click To Read Article
Are you an introverted or extraverted leader? This preference has an impact on your communication style. This article provides practical tips for improving communication for both groups.





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