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How to Write a DEI Statement
DEI is important to the wide majority of your current and potential employees. Are you making your commitment known? A DEI statement is one approach to proclaiming your organization’s stance and approach to fostering [...]
Organizational Assessment: Take Your Org from Good to Great
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This popular expression applies to many scenarios in the workplace. However, an organizational assessment isn't a fix. In fact, the best time to assess your organization is when [...]
Assessing the Health of Nonprofits
Although we usually focus on assessing our own programs and organizations, it’s equally important to assess the well-being of Nonprofits as a whole. Often overlooked, the health of nonprofits is an important economic and social [...]
Changing Data into Stories
If you aren't sure why changing data into a story is important, consider this example from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: "In July, the unemployment rate was 3.5 percent." Compare that sentence to this: [...]
Supporting Neurodiversity at Work
When organizations look at diversity and inclusion, one area, supporting neurodiversity, is often overlooked. Employees are looking for workplaces where they feel supported as individuals. They want their strengths to be used, their contributions [...]
What Does Board Diversity Really Mean
Several years ago, California passed a law requiring that public company boards based in the state include at least one woman. This historic legislation was enacted to address the disparity of men versus women [...]
Mentoring in Non-Profits: Engage Employees and Share Knowlege
Editor's Note: We originally published this article on mentoring in 2014. We have updated it to share new information. In 2022, employers are facing both the "great resignation" and a possible upcoming recession. Employers [...]
How to Drive Employee Engagement at Work
Employee engagement is more important than employee happiness. Happiness is fleeting. Happiness ebbs and flows. Keeping employees happy, then, is never the goal. Engagement is steadfast. Engagement perseveres through life’s normal ups and downs. [...]
Pay Transparency Is a Key to Greater Equity
Pay transparency has come into the spotlight this year. LinkedIn listed it as one of the 29 big ideas that will change our world in 2022. As of April, New York now requires employers [...]
Employee Retention: Creating Connection Is the Most Important Factor
Employee retention is crucial to a well-run organization. Low pay, little opportunity for advancement, and a lack of employer respect are the main reasons employees quit their jobs last year according to a February [...]
Welcome Fern Hernberg, Managing Director People Strategy
At Brighter Strategies we believe that the more integrated an organization's systems are, the more successful the organization will be. Healthy organizations share information and resources and have a unified strategy for people, process, and [...]
Influencing Culture in a Glassdoor Era
Editor's Note: This article on company culture in a employee's job market was originally written in 2018. The statistics have been updated to reflect current trends. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, [...]