Why Gender Diversity is Good for Business
Happy International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month! It’s an excellent day to celebrate women and their achievements. This is also the perfect opportunity to talk about why gender diversity is good for business. A new HBR study “When Gender Diversity Makes Firms More Productive” powerfully demonstrates how gender equity is tied to business productivity […]
Four Ways to Improve Hiring Diversity at Your Company
After working in HR in close proximity to diversity my whole career, a couple of years ago, I realized I didn’t really know how to increase diversity on my own team. To be honest, I was embarrassed to even talk about it. I’d built a strong team, but it was more homogeneous than I wanted. […]
Diversity Best Practices: How to Bring Diversity and Inclusion to Your Organization
In today’s world, more and more companies are embracing diversity and inclusion to strengthen their teams, their culture and their bottom line. Earlier this year, Forbes cited a report providing evidence that diverse teams produce greater profitability. So, if you’re an HR professional at an organization that wants to increase inclusion, where do you start? […]
An Important Email Message from Norwest on Positive, Respectful, Inclusive Cultures
Here is a recent email sent by Norwest Venture Partners: To our Portfolio Company CEOs, Founders, and Heads of People: Something that has been top of mind for our portfolio company executives, particularly given all of the news this past year, is how to ensure a positive, respectful, and inclusive culture. We’re extremely focused on […]
Your Missing Secret Ingredient for Behavior Change? Self-Observation.
This guest post was authored by Mike Normant (bio below) We like to do things fast. “Clear the to-do list.” “Check the box.” “Done.” Our need for speed will almost always backfire when we’re trying to make changes to our behaviors or mindset. To make a sustainable change, we need to slow down and pay […]
Seattle HR Collective: Gender Diversity in Leadership and Why it Matters
Guest Author: Seattle HR Collective “We are passionate about helping to build and support strategic and effective HR leaders. We are a startup friendly HR community that provides professional development beyond the basics of HR in the form of training, best practices, guest speakers as well as networking. We want to fill the gap for […]
