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Book and Video: A Humanistic Approach to Civility and Dignity in the Workplace

In this insightful and practical guide, author Jennifer Hancock challenges the limitations of using civility as a metric in the workplace and shows the benefits of centering dignity in all interpersonal interactions. Providing a humanistic approach to workplace dynamics, Hancock offers concrete tools to help readers create a more respectful and compassionate work environment. Whether you're a manager, employee, or simply looking to improve your interpersonal skills, "A Humanistic Approach Read more [...]

Humanistic Communication Strategies – Book, Audio Book and Course

This book will provide you with:
● An understanding of the role compassion and dignity play in effective communication
● How to think differently about difficult conversations
● Concrete strategies to use when you find you are not being understood

Book and Video – Principles of Humanistic Leadership

This book will provide a grounding in the humanist philosophy and information on how to apply it to various aspects of leadership, from how to think strategically, to how to more effectively manage and lead people.

Book and Program: Why is Change so Hard?

by Jennifer Hancock (Author), Desiree Vogelpohl (Editor) Change is a constant in life and business, but it's not always easy to navigate. Whether you're looking to improve your personal habits or manage change within your organization, understanding the science behind behavior change can be a game-changer. This course will teach you how to use behavioral science to manage change and achieve lasting transformation. In this book/program, you will explore the psychology of human behavior and discover Read more [...]

Book: Applied Humanism: How to Create more Effective and Ethical Businesses

You can’t understand humanistic business management unless you understand what humanism is. This book provides a short introduction to the philosophy of humanism and discusses how and why it is being applied to business and why it is so effective when you do so. Humanism helps us prioritize human value as important. It supports positive interpersonal relationships and collaborative and respectful decision-making. Since all businesses are in the business of solving problems, good problem solving is essential to good business.

Book and Program: Humanistic Conflict Management

This is a compilation of 7 of Jennifer Hancock’s books dealing with the subject of conflict management from a humanistic perspective. These books are companions to online courses offered at Humanist Learning Systems and contain the transcripts of those programs for easy home reference.

Jen Hancock’s Handy Humanism Handbook

This book is for the average human, regardless of his, her or ze name, who wants to learn more about Humanism.

ESSAYS FROM THE EDGE; Work and Culture in the 21st Century

This is a book for every employee, from staff to managers to CEOs. It features 25 punchy chapters full of insights, anecdotes and wisdom written by 25 prominent Culture Ambassadors-including their contact information, making it a wish list of top contacts. And don't forget the Mark Anderson cartoons that add a little levity and edgy humor! It's a must-read for anyone interested in well-being, happiness, and workplace success. Contributors include (in alphabetical order): Mark Anderson, Renée Read more [...]

The Bully Vaccine – Book

This book is designed to help parents vaccinate their kids against bullies and other obnoxious petty people. By preparing for them in advance you can effectively inoculate yourself against the worst of their behavior. It’s based on behavioral conditioning techniques and will help you learn what exactly has to happen to make a bully stop.

Books: Bully Vaccine – translations

The Bully Vaccine has been translated into several languages.

The Humanist Approach to Grief – Book

Non-religious individuals who are experiencing grief need a resource that they can turn to as they process their grief. They need a resource that will help them cope, as Humanists, with the emotional trauma that is the grieving process. This is that book.

Book & Video: How to Humanistically Handle Bad Bullying Bosses

How to maintain your dignity and professionalism in the face of bad bullying management Are you grappling with the challenges of managing a difficult boss? Discover how behavioral science can provide practical solutions to navigate these complex situations. Join Jennifer Hancock, renowned author and founder of Humanist Learning Systems, as she illuminates the path towards humanistically transforming workplace relationships and unlock the power of behavioral science to transform workplace Read more [...]

The Humanist Approach to Happiness – Book

This is a book that basically says – here are personal ethics, here is why they are important, and here is how you can apply them to your daily life and why doing so will help you live a happier more productive life. Great for parents to use to help talk to their kids about why ethics are important and how to integrate ethics into their decision making.

Audio Books

Founder Jennifer Hancock has made a most of her programs available as audio books.

Book & Program: How to Prevent Passive Aggressive People from Wreaking Havoc in the Workplace

This discusses how passive-aggressive behavior is rewarded. Techniques to ensure passive- aggressive behavior doesn’t interfere with workflow, how to take responsibility for your part of the interaction, and how to make sure you aren’t part of the problem. This discussion will cover three reasons why people behave passive-aggressively and help you learn how to respond professionally and effectively to the problem so that these individuals don’t wreak havoc in your workplace.

Book & Video: How to Handle Cranky Customers Using Behavioral Science

Learn why people behave how they do and how you can respond so that you can be happier and more effectively help solve your customer’s problems without getting pulled into their drama, whatever that is.

Books: The Humanist Approach to Happiness: Translations

Jennifer Hancock’s book – The Humanist Approach to Happiness – has been translated into the following languages. Spanish, Italian and Swahili

Book & Program: How to Humanistically Handle Bad Bullying Bosses

Can behavioral science help us learn how to deal help bad bullying bosses be less … bad? Yes. It can. Jennifer Hancock, author of several award-winning books and founder of Humanist Learning Systems will teach us how to humanistically help our bosses be better managers. She specializes in humanistic management and programs focused on how to stop bullying and harassment using science. Her insights on how to combine philosophy and science to help solve our problems more effectively have helped countless people all over the world.

Guide To Coping With Depression

Book: Guide To Coping With Depression
This book is a series of short activities. Really easy activities. Things that anyone can do. And that's why it's so helpful. Depression makes it hard to think and hard to plan. So anything complicated, is hard to do. But these exercises- are simple. They don't take a lot of brain power and they are calming to do. You'll read it and go - oh yeah - I do like doing that. I can do that.
This is not a magic book. It's just - simple and practical things you can Read more [...]

Book & Video: How to De-Escalate Conflicts Using Behavioral Science

This book will help you learn a science-based approach to conflict resolution and help you understand how compassion can help resolve workplace behavior issues. Being able to reinforce organizational core values by modeling respectful conflict resolution behavior in difficult situations is an added bonus.

Book & Video: Why Conflict Management Doesn’t Work When the Problem is Bullying

In this book, author Jennifer Hancock discusses the differences between a conflict model and a bullying elimination model and how we can use elimination models to resolve both conflicts and harassment situations ethically and effectively.

Book & Video: How to Win Arguments Without Arguing

In this book author and Humanist Jennifer Hancock discusses recent research on how ideas are formed and changed to help you understand why and how to yield to your opponent and how to turn the conversation around using Socratic questioning techniques to frame the underlying moral debate to your advantage.

The School of Life Books

The School of Life - EbooksThe School of life is an educational organization founded by Alain de Botton, atheist 2.0 author and philosopher. This series is from educators who work at the School of Life. The nice thing about these self help books is that there is no religious mumbo jumbo in them. How to Stay Sane How to Deal with Adversity How to Find Fulfilling Work How to Change the World How to Age How to Think More About Sex How to Be AloneHow to Think About Exercise Read more [...]

Book & Video: Why Bullies Bully & How to Stop Them Using Science

This book will: – Fill in those gaps in your knowledge by teaching you what you didn’t know you needed to know – Explain the science of how exactly behaviors are stopped. – Explain how you can use this information to train bullies to stop – Provide real life examples of how exactly this works and more importantly why it works.

Book & Video: Ending Harassment & Retaliation in the Workplace

Empower Yourself and Your Staff to Build Respectful Workplaces Free from Harassment and Retaliation This course is designed to equip employers, managers, and employees with the essential skills to effectively eradicate harassment and retaliation. In this comprehensive 1-hour online program, you'll delve into the science-based strategies that will not only help you protect yourself but also foster a workplace culture where respect and professionalism thrive. Living in an ideal world would be simple, Read more [...]