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Connecting DEI to Your Strategic Plan
According to Gartner’s Top 5 HR Trends for 2022, 35 percent of HR leaders say diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are among their main priorities this year. The research is clear that DEI activities [...]
Recreating Gossip in a Virtual Workplace
Most of us were raised to believe that gossip is negative. But research has shown that gossip has surprising benefits. Gossip, even negative talk, can help people form group cohesion and alliances. But working [...]
Sourcing, the Key to a Diverse Staff
Last year Fast Company shared a list of nine organizations with admirable diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. These well-known companies all focus efforts on the hiring process to bring in people with diverse backgrounds [...]
The Platinum Rule and Communications
Most of us grew up with the Golden Rule (Do unto others as you would have them do unto you). The “Platinum Rule” is a common business buzzword. The Platinum Rule states that instead of [...]
Do Nonprofits Need Competitive Analysis?
A recent Oracle study about The Chemistry of High Performance identifies five characteristics of high-performance organizations. One of these elements, strategic action orientation, describes high performing companies as “having clear values around who they [...]
Beyond the ADA: Creating True Accessibility at Work
This article was co-written by Amber Myers and Fernanda Vergara The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was signed in 1990. The law provides employers with guidance to ensure that employees are not discriminated against based [...]
Can You Bring Your Whole Self to Work
Last summer, a somewhat shocking article appeared on Huffington Post. A woman detailed how she managed to go through pregnancy, childbirth, and babyhood without ever letting her employer know. She hid the existence of [...]
ROWE: Results Only Work Environment
Our conversation about work has changed over the past two years. “Flexibility” and “autonomy” have become the words to describe today’s workplaces. There is no better time than now to reexamine the multiple layers [...]
Strategic Agility: Make Strategic Planning an Ongoing Conversation
Strategic agility means that strategic planning is busting out of the annual retreat. Strategic planning has been refined by the historic disruptions of the past two years. Forward-thinking organizations are trading in their three-year [...]
Could You Have a Four-Day Work Week?
Is a four-day work week the future of work? The standard eight hours a day, five days a week work week evolved slowly from the late 1800s until 1940 when Congress amended the Fair [...]
Incorporating Volunteers in Strategic Planning
The pandemic dealt a crushing blow to volunteerism across the United States. Over 90 percent of volunteering in the country shut down. Fortunately, it has improved during the past two years as nonprofits. But [...]
Volunteer Appreciation Resources
April is Volunteer Appreciation Month, and April 18-24 is Volunteer Appreciation Week. Volunteer Appreciation Week was started in 1974 and is hosted today by Points of Light. We’ve curated this short list of resources to [...]