Ten Diversity Tips By Simma Lieberman 1. Create processes to make people who are different from you feel welcome and included in your organization, and then use the media to alert potential employees that you are a welcoming inclusive employer. 2. Mentor people who are from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds or a different gender. It will help you become…

I’ve often been asked if I “do sensitivity training”. I found myself getting irritated by the very term “sensitivity training”, and didn’t know why I had such a visceral reaction. After spending time thinking about it, and talking to people who professed to be “sensitivity trainers’ I realized that “sensitivity training” was actually insensitive and patronizing. Sensitivity versus Diversity Training…

Five Reasons The Term “Employee Engagement” Makes Me Feel Disengaged Originally featured in Fast Company Fri Jun 10, 2011 1-Employee engagement has become a buzzword with no meaning in some workplace. What some managers really mean, is that they are engaged in theoretical discussions. They seem to think that if they loudly declare that their whole workforce is engaged, even…

How Jay-Z, Eminem, and Steve Jobs Can Bring Us Salvation Originally published in Fast Company.com 7/11 Millions of kids idolize hip-hop artists and rappers and have dreams of becoming one. They think that rapping would be a great way to get rich. Most of them will never get there. And people that are talented often have no background in the…