New Offerings for Your Success

By | article writing, newsletter content, website copy

Articles that get read, presentations that get heard, newsletters that stand out, and website content that doesn’t bore- our new service- 510-527-0700 simma@simmalieberman.comPlease share with your networks, employers and associations Need articles/website/ newsletter content? Want good copy about your products or services? Looking for someone to write for your internal communications? Does correspondence come back saying,”Return to Sender; not worth…

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The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Customer Service

By | best place to work inclusion, customer service, Diageo, everything wine, Paul Clinton

The Surprising Secret to Breakthrough Customer Service Are your employees product experts? Or do they shrug their shoulders and say, “I just work here?” Imagine an organization where even the cashiers are wine experts, and employees get significant input into their schedule, to suit their respective needs (school, full time careers, family etc.) At Everything Wine, in Vancouver, Canada, even…

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Leading Today's Workforce; from Bogota

By | Diversity, diversity and inclusion, diversity consulting

I’m in Bogota, Colombia, getting ready to speak at the HTM Summit for America Empresarial on Leading Today’s New Workforce. I’m going to talk about employee inclusion, engagement, and participation. While each employee is an individual, if you understand the strategy and process to enlist employees in the mission of the organization, you can help almost any employee do their…

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Appreciating Diversity During the Holidays: It's about more than just a simple "Happy Holidays" greeting card.

By | diversity and inclusion, diversity consulting, diversity during the holidays, life work balance

Appreciating Diversity During the Holidays: It’s about more than just a simple “Happy Holidays” greeting card. by Simma Lieberman Guess who’s not celebrating Christmas this year? Millions of people in the US. That’s right. Tens of millions of Americans don’t celebrate Christmas religiously, either as followers of non-Christian religions (Buddhists, Muslims, Hindus, Jews) or as individuals with no religious affiliation….

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Manage Stress and Leverage Diversity This Holiday Season

By | diversity and inclusion, diversity during the holidays, employee stress, executive stress, holiday stress, managing stress

Four Ways to Optimize Business Results This Quarter It’s no secret that the year-end holidays bring additional pressures on executives and employees, especially during challenging economic times. You can avoid these productivity-drainers by providing yourself and your employees with proven techniques to reduce stress levels. If having clear-headed executives, engaged employees, and delighted customers during the holidays appeals to you,…

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Eradicate the Diseases of Bullying and Homophobia Now! Speak Up and Speak Out!

By | bullying, Diversity, homophobia, LGBT youth, teen suicides

Eradicate the Diseases of Bullying and Homophobia Now! Speak Up and Speak Out! I would be remiss as “The Inclusionist,” as a diversity and inclusion consultant, as a speaker on life/work balance and stress, and as the mother of a 16-year boy if I didn’t address the issue of the recent suicides of LGBT youth. Bullying and homophobia are diseases…

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How to Overcome Job Interview Biases

By | best place to work inclusion, bias, biases and assumptions, Chanukah holiday diversity, Diversity, diversity and inclusion, interviewing, job interview

Interview Bias Your job interview is tomorrow. You know your appearance will matter, so you polish your shoes and brush your hair. You realize your interviewer will have your resume in hand, so you’ve come prepared to explain every minute detail included on it. You’ve even done practice interviews and prepared your responses to all the trick questions. Are you…

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Celebrating Love, Diversity and Inclusion in the USA,

By | Chanukah holiday diversity, diversity and inclusion, interfaith, New York mosque, Terry Jones

We came together yesterday, in a circle of several hundred Jews, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists, (even atheists.) talking, reading, singing, praying and sharing thoughts against bigotry, hatred and book-burning. We said “Yes,” to love, diversity and inclusion in the US, and “No,” to hate, bigotry, and intolerance. There were rabbis, ministers, imams and other religious leaders with us. It was especially…

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