Welcome to the Strong Circles Year 2 Microsite, where you can access all of the resources references in Strong Circles Year 2.
Please note: Unless noted as “in-session,” the resources highlighted here are for optional further learning at your individual discretion, not required components of the Strong Circles program. All articles and videos should be available for free via the links accompanying them. Harvard Business Review (HBR) allows one free article per month, so there is no more than one article from HBR per session. Books are available to purchase for interested participants.
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Session A: Leading Through Constraints
Scott Sonenshein, published February 7, 2017
Monica Worline and Jane Dutton, published February 20, 2017
Session B: Leading Positive Meetings
Fire Up Your Meetings
Robert Quinn,
via Michigan Ross Thought in Action series
10 Effective Ways to Conduct a Positive Meeting
Blog Post by Brier Cook
5 Ways to Make Your Meetings More Positive
Blog Post by Michelle McQuaid
Session C: Collaborating Across Silos
Making Silos Work For Your Organization
Blog post by Herman Vantrappen and Frederic Wirtz
Harvard Business Review
Session D: Sustaining Shared Purpose
Bob Quinn, "Quick Tip: Get to a Higher Purpose"
“Ross Thought in Action” feature Article
Posted on July 1, 2014, Michigan Ross
Session 1: Highlight Reel
How To Do Walking Meetings Right
Russell Clayton, Christopher Thomas, and Jack Smothers in the Harvard Business Review, August 5, 2015
The Energy Audit Exercise (exercise starts on page 17)
Created by Gretchen M. Spreitzer and Traci Grant, as described in their article “Helping Students Manage Their Energy: Taking Their Pulse with the Energy Audit” in the Journal of Management Education, April 2012
Session 2: Positive Conditions
In-Session Video
How To Find Your Sense of Purpose at Work
Leah Weiss, co-founder of Stanford’s Compassion Cultivation Program, for TEDx, June 1, 2018
Jobs, Careers, and Callings: People's Relations to Their Work
Amy Wrzesniewski, Clark McCauley, Paul Rozin, and Barry Shwartz in the Journal of Research in Personality, March 1997
Finding Meaning at Work: How We Shape and Think About Our Jobs
Featuring Amy Wrzesniewski for NPR’s Hidden Brain, September 12, 2019
Session 3: Personal Thriving
8 Ways Managers Can Support Employee's Mental Health
Kelly Greenwood and Natasha Krol in the Harvard Business Review, August 7, 2020
Session 4: Unit 1 Capstone
Happiness at Work Quiz
The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California-Berkeley
Healthy Workplaces: A Model for Action
Published by the World Health Organization, 2010
Dignity is the Bedrock for Workplace Belonging
Aida Mariam Davis in the Stanford Social Innovation Review, April 26, 2021
Session 5: Change Resistance
Peter Senge,
revised edition published March 21, 2006
Ten Reasons People Resist Change
Rosabeth Moss Kanter for the Harvard Business Review, September 25, 2012
Session 6: Intrapreneurship
How to Unlock Positive Change Throughout Your Entire Organization
Chris White and Gerald (Jerry) Davis for Chief Executive, July 2, 2015
What Kind of Changemaker Are You?
Quiz by The Story of Stuff Project
Session 7: Enabling Intrapreneurship
In-Session Article: Can You Create Change From the Bottom Up?
Michelle McQuaid, in partnership with the Positive Business Conference at the Michigan Ross School of Business.
Overcome Barriers to Organizational Change
Toolkit by Dana Henry for the UMass Donohue Institute, April 8, 2021
Organizational Change Management: What It Is and Why It's Important
Tim Stobierski for Harvard Business School Online, January 21, 2020
Unblocking Organizations: How to Create Change as Leaders
Chris White in Forbes, April 6, 2021
Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler
Session 8: Unit 2 Capstone
How Organizational Change Disrupts Our Sense of Self
Hal Gregersen and Roger Lehman in the MIT Sloan Management Review, May 4, 2021
10 Ways to Cope with Big Changes
Stephanie A. Sarkis in Psychology Today, January 19, 2017
Session 9: Strengths Spotting
Tom Rath and Barry Conchie from Gallup, January 1, 2008
Bring Out the Best in Yourself and Others with Strengths-Spotting
Published to VIACharacter, May 16, 2019
VIA Character Strengths Survey
From the VIA Institute on Character
Session 10: Giving and Receiving Feedback
Brené Brown, April 7, 2015
The Feedback Fallacy
Marcus Buckingham and Ashley Goodall for the Harvard Business Review, March/April 2019
How to Love Criticism
WorkLife with Adam Grant Podcast
Session 11: Leading With Your Best Self
Latest Research Says Praising Employees Boosts Productivity After All
Christopher B. Nelson for Forbes, November 1, 2015
Social Identity Wheel
By Inclusive Teaching at the University of Michigan
Session 12: Unit 3 Capstone
In-Session Video
13 Most Popular Gratitude Exercises and Activities
Mike Oppland in PositivePsychology.com, July 2, 2021
How Gratitude Can Transform Your Workplace
Kira M. Newman in Greater Good Magazine (University of California-Berkeley), September 6, 2017