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Can A Dialogue Change How a Doctor Practices Medicine?
At a large Health Care Provider, employees and providers came together to discuss patient experience in the context of race, disability, LGBTQIA access, and gender equity. In there, they learn how to be allies to their patients with the aim of providing inclusive...
Hiring: Best Practices To Increase Diversity
A hiring manager calls a recruiter: “I need to hire a Marketing Director ASAP.” The recruiter responds: “What are you looking for? Got a job description?” Hiring manager: “No, I don’t have time to write one. Can you create one?” This simple request can lead...
The Key To Employee Retention
The Great Resignation has employers seeking the truth about why their employees are leaving at rapid rates. We decided to launch a poll asking people on various platforms the reason for their departure. To our surprise, the top four answers all connect to our human...
Destructive Leadership Behavior
How to survive a toxic leader Let’s start with the definition. Toxic leaders are “individuals who, by virtue of their destructive behaviors and their dysfunctional personal qualities or characteristics, inflict serious and enduring harm on the individuals, groups,...
Are You the Real Reason Employees are Quitting?
Photo by Tiger Lily from PexelsYou remember back to the round of interviews that got you the current team you manage. In those spirited meetings, your future workers seemed passionate, profound, and driven by the desire to do the best work possible. In the time since,...
The Key to Psychological Safety in the Workplace: One Leadership Skill
Have you been in meetings where a leader asks for feedback, or an employee makes a hurtful remark and no one says a thing? Maybe afterward, you gather with a colleague to discuss the incident, but nothing gets resolved. You likely experience a lack of psychological...
The Real Cost of a Negative Performance Review
Most people dislike the nerve-wracking process of writing a self-evaluation of their performance. Because they feel trapped between not sounding too arrogant or too humble. Nevertheless, organizations insist on the value of self-evaluations. What some of us may not...
A Manager’s Guide to Surviving COVID-19
Layoff Survivor Sickness Syndrome Thrive Global invites voices from many spheres to share their perspectives on our Community platform. Community stories are not commissioned by our editorial team, and opinions expressed by Community contributors do not reflect the...
The Ugly Truth about “Toxic” Workplaces with Public Diversity Statements
You may have heard that unless you heal and learn from bad relationships, you are likely to repeat the experience and engage with a new abuser. So, if you are part of the great resignation and are fed up with high workloads, low pay, and abuse, learn the pattern of...
Implementing Diversity & Inclusion Programs: How A Growth Mindset Can Help You Overcome Challenges and Win at D&I
Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) is undoubtedly a hot topic across the private sector. Many want to succeed but few are able to do it. As companies engaged in valuable initiatives it's common to see implementation challenges that lead to D&I fatigue. A few...
How to Be an Ally
Over the past year, allyship has been an increasingly popular and much-needed discussion. Being an ally is not simply saying that you stand with marginalized communities, it’s about understanding deeply why people are marginalized and how allyship can help you be more deeply engaged to create sustained cultural change.
Diversity & Inclusion: CEO in Action
With an increased focus on the importance and benefits of workplace diversity, organizations are experimenting to attempt to figure out the “secret sauce” to truly achieving a diverse and inclusive workforce. However, all too often, companies only tackle either...
3 Ways to Get Unconscious Bias Training at No Cost
You have been tasked with leading Diversity and Inclusion efforts with a caveat, zero budget. We get countless emails from people like you and know that you are restless because you have a bias for action. So, we decided to put together a shortlist of web-based...
What is Diversity and Inclusion?
What is Diversity? You want to be an ally, but don’t know where to being? Start with the basics by knowing what diversity, equity, and inclusion mean. When we talk about diversity, we are referring to the various characteristics your workforce possesses, including,...
The Key to Driving Diversity Equity & Inclusion Efforts that Yield Business Results
Want to Drive Diversity Equity & Inclusion but Don’t Know Where to Start? I often hear from folks who want to start doing Diversity Equity & Inclusion (DEI) actions but don’t know where to start or think their only option is putting employees through...
Want to Close the Gender Gap?
The last few weeks, I was creating a workshop on Allyship and came across research on gender voice and decision making in organizations. It made me realized that a lot of effort goes on bringing more women to the table but there is little discussion about changing...
The Paradox of Diversity & Inclusion Practices
In my work in Diversity and inclusion, I see many companies adopting a one-sided approach to solve the challenges. For instance, they may choose to focus on gender equity, or disability or race but not all. My assumption is that the complexity and lack of resources...
How to Run Inclusive Meetings
Diversity and inclusion are key to making employees at all levels of an organization feel valued and heard. Unfortunately, many organizations think they are encouraging inclusion when in reality, their practices encourage exclusion daily. This is often due to...
6 Ways to Improve Diversity & Inclusion with Behavioral Economics
PART 2 As institutional irrationality prevails, creating a truly diverse and equitable workforce will require Diversity & Inclusion strategies to champion decision-making systems that reward power-sharing. Remember, every single employee is making large and small...
Institutional Irrationality and Other Ways You Dupe Yourself at Work
Part 1 Think about everyone at work for a minute. And not just where you work, but all those people in offices across the world. Now consider that each of them—every single employee—is making large and small decisions all…day…long. From answering emails to delivering...
Confessions of a Biased HR Manager
Several years ago, I worked for an organization that was male-dominated and I felt the need to bring women into the organization. It was a hard job since for every twenty-five male applicants there was one female applicant, clearly, we had a diversity issue. There was...
Want to Increase Organizational Intelligence? Hire & Promote Women
Are you preoccupied with meeting performance goals and increasing market share through your people? For the most part, people’s intelligence remains partially tapped because managers lack understanding of how to engage the organization’s whole brain and maximize their...
Neuroscience of Conflict Management
The rise of technology and big data has forced organizations to re-think their strategic objectives focusing more on driving change to remain competitive and relevant. A significant amount of time is spent on planning re-organizations to ensure changes are...
Decoding Leadership: The Neuro-anatomy of Successful Leaders
A leaders’ ability to function in a complex and uncertain environment requires a higher degree of adaptability and computational power. In a recent study, Mckinsey identified four behaviors that are highly correlated with leadership success. In this article, we will...
5 Facts to Keep Your Brain Calm During a Performance Review
Want to Innovate? Ask 5 Questions
The Most Mind-bending Question You Can Ask in an Interview
Are you tired of listening to the prescriptive resume narrative? It’s easy for the hiring manager and the candidate to become robots and function on autopilot, asking the same questions and generating very similar answers. As a hiring manager, I was interested not...
5 Ways Leaders Stay Cool Under Pressure
At 8:00 am you check your inbox and it has 50 new messages that arrived overnight. Diligently you prioritize and respond accordingly, but you get an unexpected call from an upset client asking for your time. Your attention shifts to the client issue and interprets the...
6 Leadership Skills Every Mother Can Own
In the last few years, I have spoken with many women who successfully climbed the corporate ladder before becoming mothers. They now have the desire to re-enter the workforce but are afraid that they don’t have a worthy corporate story to tell. Contrary to their...

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