When it comes to trimming a company’s fat, the learning and development (L&D) budget is often first to go. Seen as a luxury, it’s always been under tremendous strain. But, with rising labour costs and rampant inflation, it’s now an indulgence too many companies can ill-afford. That’s a severe mistake. Cutting your business’s learning and …
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“Corporate America has made almost no progress improving women’s representation. Women are underrepresented at every level, and women of color are the most underrepresented group of all, lagging behind white men, men of color, and white women.” The Trusted Ten. No, we are not talking about your top Myspace friends (why did Tom always …
Women have been continuously underrepresented in senior positions and while we are seeing some positive changes and progress, we want to see more women in the C-suite. According to Harvard Business Review, research has shown that having more women in senior positions creates more profitable and socially responsible businesses. Of course, we could have told …
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So you have completed your company’s diversity and inclusion training and you are thinking what next? How do I implement these great practices in my daily life as well as the workplace? What does being an ally look like? How can I be the change I want to see? At times it can be hard …
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The term Blind CV has been circulating for a while now. The concept focuses on creating a level playing field between all applicants, encouraging a more inclusive mindset – and challenging any unconscious bias that is often interjected throughout the recruiting process. A blind CV will not include any personal details which refer to …
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Here’s how we took 300+ Brandwatch employees through 230+ hours of training during a growth-focused phase of our business. In response to evolving discourse around social justice and identity and research on the links between psychological safety and productivity, more and more employers are turning to inclusion training as a tool to equip employees to excel in …
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Was 2021 the year of blackfishing? Left, right and centre we continue to see non-black celebrities appropriating black culture and using it for capital gain. So lets talk about ‘blaccents’ the impersonation of Black speech and tone. Australian rapper Iggy Azaela may spring to mind, her summer hit ‘I am the strip club’ video drew …
The Black, Asian, Minority Ethnic acronym is past its expiry and let us tell you why. It’s a sloppy way of grouping people together who may not actually have anything in common, implying that they are all of the same disadvantage, which of course is not true. Whoops! Looks like you need to sign in …
While this might feel like a new phenomenon due to Facebook’s 2020 rebranding as ‘meta’, the term metaverse was first coined in 1992 by sci-fi writer Neal Stephenson. Of course more recently, Mark Zuckerberg has reclaimed the word and described his variation of the metaverse as “an embodied internet that you’re inside of, rather than …
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We recently wrote to you about Productivity Dysmorphia, a phrase coined by author Anna Codrea-Rado describing ones inability to see their own success. It’s the urge that pushes you to overdeliver (sometimes to your detriment) to prove to others, but usually to ourselves, that we’re worthy of the rate we’re being paid or the opportunity we’re given. Nothing ever …
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