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…
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…
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…
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