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Four Generations, One Workplace
Each generation, from new hires to people in their seventies, brings its own experience, challenges and opportunities.
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LGBT Diversity
LGBT diversity creates a competitive advantage for businesses, allowing their talent to bring their full selves and everything they have to offer to the workplace.
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Diversity and Covering
Diversity issues have expanded from the original definition, and covering for these expanded diversity issues is costly for both individuals and organizations.
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Unconscious Bias and Its Role in Diversity
Overcoming natural and necessary unconscious bias takes slow, deliberate steps that can lead to innovation gold.
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Managing for Diversity
Be the face of the people you serve.
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Starting an ERG
The success of employee resource groups (ERGs) depends on motivation, the ability to make a business case, and engaging the group’s members.
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What's in a Name?
Organizations must be thoughtful when creating resource groups for employees because their origins, names, and purposes differ.
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Diversity of Thought
Encouraging diversity of thought is easier when you know the right words to use and which bad habits to eliminate.
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The Importance of Diversity for Creative Energy
Dr. Purg talks about the importance of creating a diverse workforce collaborative group including age, ethnicity, religion, professional background, for energy, creativity, and ideas that benefit the company as a whole.
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Diversity & Inclusion: When Are We Done?
Diversity is never done; it cannot be abandoned.
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Implementing Diversity & Inclusion: The Sweet Spot
Diversity and inclusion happens best when you can do it in the sweet spot.
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Diversity & Inclusion is Hard
The business world understands why diversity is necessary, but it can still be difficult to implement successfully.
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Implementing Diversity & Inclusion: Leaders and Believers
Leaders are accountable for the implementation of diversity, but the action happens at the organizational level.
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Do Differences Matter? Perhaps.
Roosevelt Thomas discusses how racial and social differences may matter.
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Are You Diversity-Challenged?
Roosevelt Thomas poses the question: Are you diversity-challenged?
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Why Strategic Diversity Management Now?
Roosevelt Thomas makes the case for why Strategic Diversity Management is an immediate issue.
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Redefining Diversity
Roosevelt Thomas redefines diversity in the workplace.
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Diversity in Business
According to Sahar Hashemi, diversity isn’t about gender, race, or religion. Instead, it’s about the uniqueness that each person brings to his or her job.
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The Threat of Diversity
Research demonstrates the value of a diverse workplace. However, we are programmed at a primal level to prefer to be with people like us. Leaders must be aware that people who are not like us can contribute a lot. Spending time socially can help reduce the threat.
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The Role of Creativity and Diversity in Leadership
Diverse groups are better at solving problems than homogeneous groups.
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Dealing with Unconscious Bias
Recognition and acceptance of bias is the first and most important of six simple strategies used to address unconscious bias.
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Unconscious Bias
Unconscious bias--the human danger detector that identifies friend or foe--can be beneficial when we are aware of it but perilous when we are unaware.
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How Inclusive Leaders Create Workplace Diversity
Diversity is more than a social justice issue when it takes place in a business environment.
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Gender Bias
Despite having a number of close relationships with people of the opposite sex, gender bias still exists in nearly every society.
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Check Your Biases
Making decisions too quickly makes you vulnerable to biases that ultimately create more problems. To make better decisions, you need to slow down.
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Personality and Bias
Bias toward personality type has many influences, but you can overcome this bias by figuring out who is and who is not "your type."
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Two Ideas for Inviting Diversity
1) Before you get on the airplane for your next flight, pick out five magazines you have never read. Try to connect them with a current problem. 2) The next time you have a team meeting, ask members to bring a different point of view from the dominant perspective.
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Diversity as a Driver of Innovation
Florence was the center of the Renaissance because the Medici brought together people from diverse backgrounds to create new ideas. Increase diversity in your team; build bridges with people different from yourself. Frans gives an example involving termites.
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Create Cultures of Inclusion
Creating cultures of inclusion means creating an equal playing ground where anyone can bring ideas to the table and where their unique perspectives will be valued.
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The Importance of Diversity
Diversity is bigger than male, female, Asian, black, white, Latino.