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Tag Archives: diversity
Adverse selection: 6 ways employers repel top talent
Is your company inadvertently pushing good people away? Are some of your best performers leaving? If so, “adverse selection” may be at work in your organization. Have you pinpointed all the ways you are driving diversity out of your enterprise?
Find Your Blind Spot: A Self-Reflection Activity for Managers
We humans tend to evaluate others through the lens of our own best traits. We often value people who have our same strengths and undervalue people who don’t. Are you doing this unwittingly? And if you are, what effect does it have on your team’s morale and performance?
Brand Boring
A prospective client asked to talk with me recently. (To protect her identity, we’ll call her Lara.) Lara’s executives wanted to clarify and begin driving a leadership brand throughout the organization. What unfolded during our conversation was a plan whereby their values, credo, code of conduct, and core competencies would converge into a leadership » Read More
Open-Minded Leadership
Do you see opposition as a problem or an opportunity? This isn’t merely spin. Our perspective can change the way we react and the types of results we generate. Jane Perdue (member profile, @thehrgoddess) posted Lead with an open mind over on Smartblog Thursday. She presented an interesting perspective on the importance of resisting temptation » Read More
Driving Diversity: 3 Ways for Leaders to Effectively Navigate Their Workplace
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Diversity. Much discussion has surrounded this small but powerful word over the past twenty years in our workplaces. So what is it? Defined at its simplest, diversity it is the sum of differences as well as similarities among and within all people added with the glorious power that comes from that truth. As a force » Read More
Obstacles to Understanding
I had the opportunity, thanks to Lead Change member Mike Sipple Jr. (@mikesipplejr) to guest-post over at Centennial Inc.’s blog. Established in 1975, Centennial is a respected recruiting, coaching and career development company based in Cincinnati, Ohio. The post is about the difference between simply hearing and truly understanding others. In a word, diversity. We » Read More
The Opposite of Leader
Sometimes, a description of what something is not helps to also describe what it is. This past week, we had another Lead Change Tulsa breakfast dialogue and the topic was Effectively Leading Diverse Organizations. Over 40 people, many new to Lead Change, joined us for this discussion. Teri Aulph (@TeriAulph) generally enlists the panelists and » Read More
Leadership and Diversity Tulsa June 28
TCC Department of Continuing Education and Lead Change Tulsa are hosting another breakfast leadership discussion, Effectively Leading a Diverse Organization this Thursday, June 28, at the TCC Center For Creativity, 910 S. Boston. Cost is $15, continental breakfast is included. Our Panelists Haley Buzzard Graduate Candidate at DePaul University Jesse Guardiola Career Development and Hispanic » Read More
5 Uncomfortable Observations About Workforce Diversity
We base our first impressions on external appearance. Grooming. Teeth. Attire. Accessories. Accent. We notice scuffs on shoes, extra pounds, and age. Then, we unconsciously jump to conclusions about the person’s potential and abilities. We decide in a split second whether individuals are competent, even before they’ve opened their mouths to speak. When we reflexively act from a prejudiced place, are we really prizing diversity?
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