Most of us spend a lot of time interacting with our coworkers. Being surrounded by the right teams can make long hours and challenging projects a lot more bearable. Getting along with our colleagues can make work fun.

In this best-of podcast, Kellogg Insight offers advice on how to make the most of your work relationships. We hear from Kellogg School faculty Ellen Taaffe​, a clinical assistant professor of leadership, and Eli Finkel​, a professor of management and organizations, about the thorny task of giving feedback. We also hear from Jeanne Brett​, a professor of management and organizations, about how to resolve workplace disputes.

In this podcast, we talk with Megan Kashner​,a clinical assistant professor and director of social impact at Kellogg, about how companies and their employees can offer their expertise to nonprofit organizations. Then we discuss with Kara Palamountain​, a research associate professor at Kellogg, how social impact entrepreneurs have some tough decisions to make when they are deciding whether to go the nonprofit or for-profit route. 

Building a new business comes with a lot of uncertainty, but there's one thing companies can do to make the odds of survival as favorable as possible.

In this podcast, we talk with lecturer Jeff Hyman about how to identify, attract, and retain rockstar employees. Then we talk with Bernie Banks, Kellogg’s associate dean for leadership development and a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army, about how to develop leadership talent from the ground up.

Music can be powerful. It can change our mood, and, research shows, even change our behavior.

In this podcast, we talk with professor Derek Rucker about his research on power songs and how they might shape the way we behave after we listen to them. Then we talk with Kris Kukul, a Broadway music director and orchestrator, who helps us understand how music is crafted in order to elicit an emotional reaction.

Ashwin Ram, one of the creators of Amazon Echo, describes how the artificial intelligence device is learning how to understand the ways we speak. Plus, a Kellogg School data scientist describes an algorithm that can identify new social-media hashtags as they emerge.

Learn how to most effectively give and receive feedback in the workplace. Then an expert on marriage discusses the ways our relationships can inform our work communications.