If you’ve been following my series of posts on how to talk to colleagues about the social issues currently flooding the world, you’ll know that supporting everyone to speak openly about discrimination and marginalisation encourages employees to be authentic. Employees...
Put your hand up if you DON’T want to feel a sense of being understood and belonging? Silence? Thought so! This is one of the reasons why the #BLM movement has gathered such strong momentum. The way George Floyd died sparked empathy, which led to an understanding by...
A recent, global study on people who felt they had been discriminated against found that 38% thought it was culturally taboo to discuss their situation. The study also found that silencing their experience made employees who had been discriminated against were:...
The first adrenaline rush of Covid-19 is over and your business is still operating and functional. Let me tell you what I predict is going to happen as your staff settle in to their new normal. Sorry to break it to you, but I expect that your staff are going to feel...
For the times they are a-changin’” – and far more quickly and dramatically than we could have imagined even a month ago. The disruptions that every organisation and business are facing right now make this a great time to re-assess your own leadership style and skills...
I’ve worked with Aboriginal communities for about a decade: in strategic planning, community development, communications, logistics and governance. I’ll be frank – I’ve seen some extreme examples of tokenism when it comes to closing the gap and empowering communities....