Christine Porath discusses why community is critical to well-being and shares powerful examples of how to build it in the workplace.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The astounding benefits of a sense of community.

2) The one thing to avoid with community-building activities.

3) How vulnerability leads to richer communities.

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— ABOUT CHRISTINE —

Christine Porath is a tenured professor at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business. She’s the author of Mastering Civility: A Manifesto for the Workplace and co-author of The Cost of Bad Behavior. Christine is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, and has written articles for New York Times, Wall Street Journal, McKinsey Quarterly, and Washington Post. She frequently delivers talks and has taught in various Executive programs at Harvard, Georgetown, and USC. Prior to her position at Georgetown, she was a faculty member at University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business.

Christine’s work has been featured worldwide in over 1500 television, radio and print outlets. It has appeared on 20/20, Today, FoxNews, CNN, BBC, NBC, msnbc, CBS, ABC, and NPR. It has also been included in Time, the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Fortune, Forbes, NY Times, The Washington Post, and L.A. Times.

• Book: Mastering Community: The Surprising Ways Coming Together Moves Us from Surviving to Thriving

• LinkedIn: Christine Porath

• Twitter: @PorathC

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Book: The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz

• Book: The Joy of Movement: How exercise helps us find happiness, hope, connection, and courage by Kelly McGonigal

• Book: TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments by Douglas Conant and Mette Norgaard

• Book: Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• Past episode: 150: Expressing Radical Candor with Kim Scott

• Past episode: 310: Managing Your Energy to Perform at Your Best with Tony Schwartz

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