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Workplace culture takes place in the small repeated micro practices of all of its members. It is not the large initiatives, one time...
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Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Panic Attacks in the Workplace
How can you help someone when they are beginning to spin into overwhelm? What can you do to help yourself or the people around you when...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Managing Grief in the Workspace
Grief is the byproduct of caring about something. You cannot be sad about something leaving, dying, or failing unless you have invested...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Where Are The Apologies in Twitter World?
What happens when you get it wrong? What happens when you are responsible for sending out disrespect, misinformation, or unkindness? ...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Redefining Work Breaks
Breaks can be used to improve workplace culture, support staff wellness and the building of resilience skills. If you need help trying...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Finding What You Love
Do what you love should be more than a slogan or meme. It should be the preoccupation of every workspace. Finding love is not just...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Myth of the Family Dinner
How many meals do you eat together as one household per week? How many meals do you eat together as one household undistracted? Not in...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Escape From the Office
What might the new desire for employees to prefer working from home say about existing workplace culture? If the workplace was such a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Can You Teach Social Emotional Skills from a Box?
You cannot teach social emotional skills with just words, visuals, research and stellar lesson plans. You have to do the work. You need...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Stop Using the Word Bully
A Guide for Parents In the majority of cases what we call “bullying” is someone poorly managing their own nervous system. What we must do...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Letter to Leo
Pets have the ability to teach, to heal, to bring companionship and light into someone's world. They can become the safe place to...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Is There a Safe Way to Vent?
How can you avoid the toxic ways in which venting is expressed in the workplace? How do we help our workplace communities avoid...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Small Steps Big Changes
The benefits of including small focused interruptions in workplace culture Building resilient workplace cultures is not complicated. It...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Problem With Zoom
What does this do to our social engagement? How does this affect our ability to truly listen and hear the other? Is it possible that the...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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There is An Opening
A crisis leaves space where hard feelings can become undone and softened. Vulnerability provides an opportunity for broken spaces to...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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The Art of the Open Face
Take away that face and facial recognition pattern and you have a nervous system that is unable to take care of itself. And that is a...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Relationship Over Rules
What do you do when someone you love defies the rules that define you? There is a grieving father in front of me. His shoulders are...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Let Your Children Carry Their Own Backpack!
Last year while walking on my home commute from my workday, I watched two of my elementary aged students toss their back packs to what...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Before Entering a Difficult Conversation Read This
You are about to enter a client meeting. You already know the client is upset. This is the third time you have had to move the order of...
Dr. Emi Garzitto
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Countering the Culture of Slights
I was listening on a podcast where one of the guests was told about an incident where a female staff member felt harmed when a male...
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