A key component of any diversity and inclusion culture change initiative is to develop a process to educate and include hourly and front line employees, the ones that actually deal with customers. If not, any culture change will stay stuck at the corporate office. The great programs and policies won’t make a difference if an employee is inappropriate, and offends…
In my last post, I had you list the people who need to know you and the people you need to know. Ready for another step? Ready for a little…art project? Get a large piece of paper and a few markers or crayons. It’s time for you to create a Brand Badge. You’re going to take your text-only vision and draw…
We’re impacted by negative messages, we get angry when we hear slime balls make outrageous statements about LGBTQ people and their families. We are all affected by the messages we get from the outside world. Today, I want to share a different message of hope and love, and to tell you that not all homophobic people are the same. Some…
Recruiting a diverse workforce The United States population is diverse. It’s no longer a question of when the workforce will change. It already has. There has been a huge increase in women, people of color and immigrants in the workforce in the last twenty-five years. Diversity is not just a “good idea”, today. it is a business imperative if you…
Diversity and Inclusion Zeroes Fight Marvel Comics to Stop Gay Wedding! A group of people called The Million Moms has launched a campaign against Marvel Comics. The reason is Marvel comics announced that it 1st openly gay hero Northstar, will marry his male partner in the 1st same-sex wedding in the marvel universe, in the June issue of astonishing X…
When I talk about diversity and inclusion, or creating inclusive cultures where everyone can participate, to leaders and managers of projects and organizations here in the US, and elsewhere I often hear people say, either, “I treat everyone the same, or underneath we’re all the same.” Everyone is not the same, and it’s impossible to treat everyone the same Both…
1- Understand your biases and don’t make assumptions. Most of the time you don’t know who is an LGBT person unless they tell you. LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender) people span many dimensions of diversity in your workplace; generation, ethnicity, religion, work function, communication style, etc. 2- Know that LGBT people are not looking for special treatment but want the…
I invite you to read this beautiful poem on diversity and inclusion by a colleague, Charles Bennefield, who is an internal corporate diversity director Charles Bennafield – is a pastor (www.crossroadsrockchapel.org) and poetlocated in Georgia. He is a diversity practioner with an extensivebackground in IT. He can be reached at diverselikeme@me.com his phonenumber is (678) 886 1229 I Am Diversity, Please Include Me…
Diversity/inclusion will not succeed if it does not include empathy/integration and a holistic vision for culture change, that goes way beyond the workplace. Real diversity and inclusion is a process with a goal of full integration into an organization’s DNA. That means creating an individual mindset, and an organizational culture of empathy. Real empathy means being willing, and taking the…
A friend sent me the article, from the Harvard Business Review “Diversity Training Doesn’t Work,” by Peter Bregman and asked my thoughts. Here they are This is not a revolutionary revelation. The article was based on one diversity class. I don’t know where or when he took diversity training, but it sounds like it was an old model of “good…
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