Using the Diversity, Difference, and Dialogue Process, as a Communication Tool Amongst Diverse Groups of People What is the Diversity, Difference, and Dialogue Process? The Diversity, Difference, and Dialogue Process, is a facilitated process to bring people together across differences. Dialogue in the purest sense is not a conversation, not is it an exercise in active listening, just repeating back,…
Simma’s Success Strategies to Recruit and Retain Millennials Develop a flexible mindset. There is always more to learn Be aware of your own generation lens and that you view other generations through your lens Focus on the mission and culture of your organization as opposed to just money Promote your work and investment in being a “green organization.” Include in…
Are You Practicing These Ten Inclusionist Leadership Behaviors? You may be this year’s leadership award winner, but you can be next years’ Number One on the unemployment line, if you don’t understand, or know how to be an inclusionist leader. I’m often asked the following question by executives, who understand that inclusionist leadership, is more than just diversity training. “What…
Who Will Tell the Employees They’re Supposed to Like Gay People? Dont waste time developing a culture change strategy unless you’re going to implement it throughout your organization. I was consulting with an organization that had launched a diversity and inclusion/culture change initiative. Previously, they had conducted an organizational culture assessment, made some changes, added domestic partner benefits, and had…
Building a Culturally Intelligent Organization; how to raise your cultural IQ In the 1990’s and beyond people who made culturally offensive comments were often sent to “sensitivity training,” in the hopes that they would come back with remorse. It was viewed as a punishment and met with resistance. While some organizations and institutions are still providing sensitivity training to employees…
Nine Strategies to Hire Diversity of Thought In Your Organization Are you serious about leveraging the diverse skills and talents of your workforce to create new products and services that will make your customers take notice time and time again? If you want to be ahead of the competition, and bring in more innovation, then think with a diversity of…
THREE REASONS WHY SEGREGATING GENERATIONS IN THE WORKPLACE IS A BAD IDEA At a recent workshop on women in business, I heard several women from the baby boomer generation complaining that millennial women seemed to have a poor work ethic, and that it was hard to mentor them. They said that younger women were so busy in the internet they…
Is Age Just a Number? Stop Stereotyping Generations Is age just a number? No, and Yes! No, because we all view people, events, situations, etc. from our own reference points, which come from our own experiences. Most of our perceptions are formed by what we experience, see and hear, before we are eighteen. Everyone has their own experiences, and each…
The March on Washington 1963; I was there The 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom is being celebrated this week I’m so glad that I was there to take part in history. My diversity journey began that day. I wish I could say that it was because I saw Martin Luther King, and heard his…
Diversity and Inclusion Leaders Need to Know How to be Diversity and Inclusion Allies At some point in our lives, everyone needs an ally, a person who supports our ideas, encourages us to follow our dreams, or defends us against naysayers. At some point in our lives, we’ve probably all had opportunities to be an ally to another person, and…
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