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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...
Why Employee Voice Matters
A few months ago, Sarah joined a Fortune 500 company with enthusiasm and eagerness to contribute to an organization that professed to prioritize inclusion. However, within weeks she noticed something peculiar: her colleagues remained silent during meetings, never daring to challenge their boss or ask questions.
Negotiating Your Way to Success: Tips for the Workplace
“You don’t get the life you deserve, you get the life you negotiate.” Chris Voss, Expert Negotiator Negotiation is an essential part of professional life, whether you're seeking a salary increase, negotiating a contract, or making a business deal. But not all...
What is leadership?
“Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral relationship between people based on trust, obligation, commitment, emotion, and a shared vision of the good.” - Joanne Ciulla Leadership is a concept that has been studied, analyzed, and debated for...
The 5 Habits of a Poorly Performing Team
Has the pandemic and the adoption of hybrid work impacted your team’s performance? If your answer is yes, know that you cannot solve a problem without clearly defining it. Start by reviewing the issues below and ask your team to diagnose the problem. 1. Overreliance...
5 Practices of High-Performance Teams
The pandemic and the emergence of hybrid work styles have created the need to adopt a new set of practices to maintain high performance. Share this short video with your team and discuss the practices you need to adopt.
Am I still emotionally intelligent?
Am I still emotionally intelligent? After months of working from home, staying alone has become my comfort zone. I’m not sure if this is your case but for me being asked to join a party or a face-to-face meeting sends me running the opposite way. Recently, I was...
What is emotional intelligence?
Emotional intelligence explained in less than one minute in this short video.
The neuroscience of stereotype threat
Under stereotype threat, how does your brain react? Learn about the neuroscience of stereotype threat. Imagine this, you arrived early at work for a town hall meeting. Another employee arrives a minute later, looks around, and asks you, when will breakfast be served?...
5 Diversity and Inclusion Skills
Many organizations have implemented diversity and inclusion programs aimed at creating inclusive workplaces. However, most diversity programs simply distribute information. The best programs provide employees with skills that they can use across domains to be...
How to Mitigate Hiring Bias?
Not long ago, I was asked to audit a hiring process for a large organization. I learned that appearance was a factor rated by hiring managers and impacted the overall hiring decision. This was a bias that could negatively affect all people belonging to low...
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...
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