How Kindness Leads to More Profit and Productivity

Why is kindness often seen as a weakness in business? Wouldn’t you prefer your professional acquaintances be kind and collaborative as opposed to pushy and aggressive? So, why are corporate environments typically filled with overly assertive or aggressive dynamics? It’s so old school.

No one wants to be bulldozed in business! So, let’s stop doing that to each other. Kindness is in! In fact, kindness actually leads to increased productivity and profits – plenty of research is out there to back that up.

Recently our CEO, Chantal Sheehan wrote a guest blog post  for the productivity platform Hive on the benefits of kindness in business. (Side note: We use and love Hive!)

Here are just some of those benefits. Kindness is proven to:

• Foster creativity

• Increase employee retention

• Breed collaboration and productivity

• Lower health care costs

• Build leadership influence

Read the full article for the research, evidence, and real-world examples that prove those benefits. You won’t be disappointed!