“I owe you an apology,” I told my coaching client. I’ve been apologizing a lot lately. Not because I’ve screwed up more than usual, but because I read a book that taught me how to apologize better. Dr ...

There's a reason the song is called "Hard to Say I'm Sorry." Apologizing doesn't come easily or naturally for most people, including me. We often get too wrapped up in our own lives and needs to ...

We know you want to be the best you in 2022, so we're offering a curated selection of excerpts from 2021 Life Kit episodes to help you do just that. Here's how to say "sorry" — like you mean it. The ...

JOLENTA GREENBERG When my husband Brad and I got married, right afterwards, he went and lived on the road for a year because he’s a news reporter and he was covering the election. We had a plan that ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Kathy Caprino, M.A. covers careers, leadership and personal growth. This week, I was honored to be interviewed for an Oprah ...

Whether you’ve genuinely made a mistake that you need to remedy or you’re simply trying to gloss over a disagreement in the workplace that you’d rather not become bigger than need be, sometimes saying ...

Researchers have found that women apologize significantly more than men, and I believe women apologize too often. Many of us apologize out of habit, but unfortunately it hurts how we are perceived and ...

Amy Ebesu Hubbard, PhD, is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Communicology at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. The main areas of her teaching and research focus on conflict management, ...

Apologizing correctly and with great effect is an imprecise art. Any apology that truly suffices will convey both why it is you’re sorry, and that you understand how your potential transgression may ...

There's a reason the song is called "Hard to Say I'm Sorry." Apologizing doesn't come easily or naturally for most people, including me. We often get too wrapped up in our own lives and needs to ...