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You’ve got the weekly leadership team meeting down to a science, and your 1:1s with your direct reports are often fantastic conversations. But what about this meeting? It might be an important board meeting, a budget-wrestling session, an all-staff meeting following a community crisis. Maybe you’re launching a strategic planning process for the first time in five years!
Now, the stakes are higher.
Read MoreYour organization probably has a values statement on its website. You might even know where it is and what it says! (Interestingly, there are good odds that “integrity” is on your list - the world’s most common “core value”.)
But - do you know how this statement was made? Who chose these words? Was it your Board from 7 years ago? And what do they mean?
Read MoreWe’ve all seen it: that sweet statement at the end of every job posting that tells everyone not to worry, that the people doing the hiring hold absolutely no bias whatsoever and will totally make every decision without regard to race, sex, national origin, disability status, sexual orientation, etc.
We all know that’s complete and utter BS, right?
Read MoreOnline discussion forums (fora?) are a funny thing. While we generally have our daily conversations inside our bubbles, where opinions rarely surprise us and everybody knows your name, forums allow us to hold conversations with people from outside (often far outside) our little bubbles. I live in Portland, Oregon, which is the epitome of the “liberal bubble,” where I can generally expect that 99% of the people on the streetcar live on the same side of the political spectrum—if not quite as far to one end—as I do. Because of this geography, I jump at opportunities to…
Read MoreCreating an equity & inclusion strategy in a white-dominated organization is a business fraught with peril. Picture it: You're launching your internal equity & inclusion action team. On this team of 10, only 2 people identify as POC. Of those 2, neither has a management role, and most of the other people on the team are managers or executive level.
Read MoreRecruiting and hiring would be so much easier if we were all robots. We'd achieve just the right balance of whatever it is we need, all without the feelings and patterns and habits that, more often than not, work against our success…
Read MoreYou know what most people hate? Job interviews. Why? Well, they’re a weird, manufactured thing where people sit in a room and one is trying to prove they’re the best and the others are trying to prove their workplace is cool. Awkward all around, right? Naturally, the instinct on the part of HR and hiring managers is to relieve the awkwardness and make the experience as pleasant as possible.
Read MoreIf I had a nickel for every time someone suggested that I was breaking employment laws by trying to hire more BIPOC staff members, I’d have a solid $1.25. Maybe more!
Read MoreA new day is dawning, folks! Unless you've been totally tuned out, you know that women (and some men) are standing up in droves to demand justice from their harassers and abusers.
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