• Desire to Belong: The Human Trait of Unconscious Bias

Everyone has unconscious biases, using stereotypes to assess people and guide decision making. A desire to belong can stop people from moving beyond them.

• Inviting Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders to Join the Learning Journey

Inviting Frontline and Mid-Level Leaders to Join the Learning JourneyThink the 70/20/10 principles apply only to senior leaders? Think again because frontline and mid-level managers are the people who translate strategy into execution.

• Meeting the New Hiring Challenges of Global Onboarding Programs

Diversity managers know intuitively that diversity programs add value to the organization. Applying the ROI Methodology proves it through metrics.

• Restoring Civility in the Workplace Among All Employees

The typical workforce now consists of employees who work in the office, remotely, or both. A trend of increasing incivility in the personal online lives of people has crept into online work lives. It is damaging to employee engagement and productivity and harms the business.

• A Call of Duty: Using Technology to Retain Veterans in Post-Military Jobs

Employers hire veterans to take advantage of their training and skills. The next challenge is increasing employment retention rates, and technology is helping.

• Shaking up D_I by Expanding the Conversation on Belonging

In some companies, diversity and inclusion (D&I) is in danger of becoming a systemized process that relies on traditional measures for validation. The expanded D&I conversation steps out of the comfort zone into belonging and intersectionality.

• Performance Management: Setting goals and measuring success for growth in a flatter world

In a competitive market, how do companies make sure they are staying ahead of the curve and succeeding in providing the best possible service for their client? “If you’re without any benchmark, you really don’t know how you’re doing,” says Albert Chen, CEO of Telemon Corporation. Performance managem...

• Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the Workplace

Making Canada Work: Indigenous People Inclusion in the WorkplaceA country is as inclusive as its least included group of people, and for Canada that group is Indigenous people. To address the issue, Indigenous Works developed a competency model for Indigenous people inclusion in the Canadian economy...

• Driving Gender Equality Through Meticulous Talent Management

Driving Gender Equality Through Meticulous Talent ManagementTech organizations have carefully constructed policies to drive gender equality in the talent process, but they are not enough. Bias continues to express itself in more subtle ways. New approaches are needed to tear down the barriers once a...

• Turning to People with Disabilities to Reduce Turnover

Turning to People with Disabilities to Reduce Turnover Some positions experience high turnover for one of two reasons: competition makes it difficult to keep highly skilled labor or the job is entry level and employees move on to other positions. One solution is close to home: hire and retain peop...

• Plugging the Social Media Time Drain with Management Best Practices

Plugging the Social Media Time Drain with Management Best Practices

• Improving Organizational Systems to Mitigate Imposter Syndrome

The Journal of Behavioral Science estimates that around 70 percent of the U.S. population has experienced Imposter Syndrome. What can organizations do to combat this disruptive phenomenon?

• Using Technology to help with Veterans Retention

A Call of Duty: Using Technology to Retain Veterans in Post-Military Jobs Employers hire veterans to take advantage of their training and skills. The next challenge is increasing employment retention rates, and technology is helping.

• Getting the Most Value from Employee Resource Groups

ERGs are not social clubs. They are employee groups that can make significant contributions to organizational success when structured and managed as value generators.

• Stubborn Bias Persists in Golf and Business

Women's golf serves as a good metaphor for women in business in many ways. Women continue to struggle to get the same respect as men, but bias keeps getting in the way. - By Vincent Pane

• It’s Our Uniqueness That Makes us Stronger

Living as differently abled or with otherness can exacerbate Imposter Syndrome. To build solutions and help everyone establish a sense of belonging, businesses first need to cultivate an understanding of the lived experience of their employees.

• Self-Preservation Biases Serve Self and Influence Decision-Making

There are dozens of biases that impact people’s views of the world and their decision-making process. One of the types of biases frequently found in the workplace is self-preservation bias.

• Using Social Technologies to Find the Future Business Leaders

Using Social Technologies to Find the Future Business LeadersInnovative companies are capitalizing on social technologies as transformational tools for developing connected workplaces.

• Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation

Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation A digital transformation leads to a fundamental change in everything the business does, impacting employees on all levels. Success requires leadership skills in employee engagement, to develop a shared purpose that drives a successful transformation...

• Protecting Ethics, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in Global Supply Chains

Protecting Ethics, Human Rights and Environmental Sustainability in Global Supply ChainsMany companies require their suppliers to accept a Code of Conduct addressing ethical behavior, human rights and environmental sustainability. For business leaders, the challenge is ensuring the words are put int...

• Managing the Multigenerational Workforce Through Engagement

Just when it seems as if businesses have coped with everything imaginable, they are experiencing a new challenge: a workforce made of at least four generations.

• Leveraging ERG Allies to Build a Positive Organizational Culture

Bridging differences in a diverse workforce is an important strategy for creating and maintaining a positive productive culture. Employee resource groups are prime sources of allies who can build alliances across diversity in every category.

• The Role of Spirituality in the Workplace: The Implications and Benefits

The Role of Spirituality in the Workplace: The Implications and BenefitsUnderstanding the role spirituality plays in workplace excellence and work/life balance among workers and leaders alike.

• Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation

Leadership For a Successful Digital Transformation A digital transformation leads to a fundamental change in everything the business does, impacting employees on all levels. Success requires leadership skills in employee engagement, to develop a shared purpose that drives a successful transformation...

• Securing Assets to Keep End Users Cyber Safe

Crucial to cyber security is ensuring proper use of workplace technologies by end-users. Understanding the types of risks is a first step in keeping the organization cyber safe.

• Strategies for Recognizing and Managing Diversity Fatigue in the Workplace

Employees developing diversity fatigue are less likely to listen to diversity and inclusion messaging. Employers must overcome the fatigue to continue realizing the advantages of a cohesive diverse workplace. - By Anna Gonsalves

• Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

Reaching Employees with Mobile Technology…No Matter Their Location

• IBM Develops Transformational Leaders with Transformational Processes

Being able to identify potential leaders and develop them into transformational leaders is a necessity for any business that wants to achieve sustainability. IBM has developed a unique manager system that focuses on processes and results rather than control.

• Eyes on Home Integrating Aboriginals into the Canadian Labor Force

Eyes on Home: Integrating Aboriginals into the Canadian Labor ForceOne of the solutions to Canada’s labor shortage is found right at home. Aboriginals are underutilized and employers need talent, so developing a set of strategies for successful market integration is needed.

• Organizational Justice Climate Influences Workplace Experiences of Disabled

The way employees experience their workplace is largely determined by three elements of the justice climate. The collective beliefs include procedural, interpersonal and informational aspects. - By Jeremiah Prince

• Thriving Through Global Diversity _ Inclusion Core Values

Diversity and inclusion are core values that provide the springboard for global inclusiveness. It takes a comprehensive approach that includes developing allies, ERGs, culturally intelligent leaders, and safe communication and learning opportunities.

• Seven Tips To Finding an Extra Hour a Day

Busy executives in management and leadership positions have one common grievance: Not enough time in the day. “Crazy busy” is the common refrain when asked, “How’s it going?” among colleagues. This is even more pronounced for small business owners, minority and women owned businesses, and sole propr...

• Aging Workforce (MWBE Entrepreneurs) and adapting to change

Change comes in different forms and shapes. At a workplace, this change might be in the form of people getting old. When your workforce is getting older, there is of course a need for them to move ahead and make way for the new and young. But is this justified? Older people are the ones who might ha...

• Preparing for the Future: Developing Gen Y Leaders

Preparing for the Future: Developing Gen Y LeadersBusinesses looking for future leaders need only look as far as the organization’s Gen Y employees. Now is the time to develop the leadership behaviors needed for strong bench strength.

• Building a Truly Inclusive Workplace with an Allyship Strategy

Business leaders have worked for years to build inclusive workplaces, but stopping at inclusion is not getting desired results. There are new elements to consider – belonging and allyship – to create a truly inclusive culture that develops a sense of belonging in diverse employees.

• Job Design to Attract, Retain, and Advance Women

Job Design to Attract, Retain, and Advance WomenThe workplace needs women, but the broken rung at the management first step often stops women from advancing. Even when they get to the first step, they face barriers to advancement. Removing those barriers can begin by re-evaluating both job design an...

• Awareness Plus Action Best Approach for Mitigating Bias

There is no magic solution to minimizing workplace bias. It takes a combination of employee awareness and organizational structures that reduce the opportunities to demonstrate bias.

• Best Practices in Procurement Apply to All Businesses Without Regard to Size

Best Practices in Procurement Apply to All Businesses Without Regard to SizeStagnant profits and decreasing profit margins led to a surge in activity for procurement experts throughout the world. Businesses large and small began to focus more on cost efficiency, and relied on some of the industry’s ...

• Belonging in the Workplace is not the Same as ‘Fitting in’

There is a clear, proven business case for diversity and inclusion. But inclusion often drives "fitting in," meaning people mix with others in the workplace but strive to hide their unique ideas and experiences. The next step after inclusion is belonging in which people are valued for their unique t...

• Leaders Fearing Employee Truths Stifle Problem Solving

Employees often fear raising negative issues in the workplace with management, fearing retribution. Employee fears are a symptom of managers who are just as fearful of harm to the organization and their positions should they recognize the issues exist.

• The Business of Helping Others Find Their Vitality

Jo-Ann James, CEO of Vital Management, MedFit Rehab and Vital Steps, believes in the power of exercise for shaping our health destiny. One of her favorite expressions is “Exercise is medicine.” - By Valerie Gomez

• On a Learning Journey to Build Leadership Bench Strength

Creating a learning journey requires developing a process of formal and experiential learning, and networking. Effective leader development is a continuous process. - By Dave Desouza

• Strengthening Inclusion and Diversity by Fostering a Culture of Empathy

North American businesses spend billions of dollars every year on D&I initiatives, yet many fail to move the needle. Something is missing, and it could be a lack of empathy. - By Daniel Perez

• Culture Change: Let’s Move Beyond Mandates

Culture Change: Let’s Move Beyond MandatesAddressing cultural challenges in organizations has long been handled with new policies and special programs. While meant to be helpful, these mandates have not generally been wholly successful in changing attitudes or fixing deep level beliefs in the workpl...

• Breaking the Mold Letting Women Bring Authenticity into the Workplace

Women are told how they must think, act and dress in order to be noticed for leadership positions. They are molded to fit the perspective of men on gender roles, and there is not room for authenticity. It is time to break the mold!