How to make employees feel listened to
Making employees feel that their voices are heard, and more importantly that they are really listened to is crucial to employee engagement and a successful business.
Listening as a strategy, not as a reflex
As creatures of conversation, every human being is born with an innate ability to listen, hindered only by our ability (or inability) to pay attention. However, there is merit in not merely relying on our listening skills as an unconscious reflex, but to make a conscious effort and deploy this skill as a strategy.
How can organisations tackle parental leave bias?
Parental leave entitles new parents to take leave from work to spend time looking after their children. The concept of maternity leave has been making visible progress in recent years and the cultural context around paternity leave is also changing as more and more countries are offering benefits to fathers. Few organisations are also offering “parental bonding leave” and “secondary caregiver leave” for the LGBTQ+ and adoptive parents.
Wasps Group commit to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion through new programme and partnership (UK)
Wasps Group commit to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion through new programme and partnership (UK)
Dalit History Month – why we must talk about it
Dalit History Month, inspired by the Black History Month movement in the US, sheds light on the resilience and contributions of Dalits in combating caste discrimination in India, a systemic issue akin to racial oppression globally.
What is emotional intelligence and how to build it
Valuable in leadership, parenting, and even artificial intelligence – everyone is talking about emotional intelligence or EQ as it is frequently called. But why is it so popular and what does it mean?
Why Unconscious Bias Training Doesn’t Work – But This Doesn’t Mean Giving Up on Behaviour Change
As with any shift towards more progressive workplace cultures, organisations are beginning to recognise the limitations of one-off training sessions, especially those like Unconscious Bias Training, which research shows often fail to produce lasting impact.
Real Business: Why Unconscious Bias Training Doesn’t Work (but this doesn’t mean investing less in inclusive cultures) (UK)
Founder and CEO at In Diverse Company, Johanna Beresford discusses what you need to do to embed anti-racism within your company culture, without scratching upon Unconscious Bias Training.
How to work from home effectively
The world has seen a 140% increase in the global workforce that is working from home from 2005 until 2016 and during the global pandemic of coronavirus, this number has gone up to 173% (Global Workplace Analytics, 2020).
Workplace bestie – Such a thing exists?
Do you ever feel that you should have had your best friend with you when something happens at work and you want to share it right away? Do you feel like there should have been a person to understand you? Yes, many of us have! But don’t worry if you and your bestie don’t work together.