Is It Time To Divide Diversity From Inclusion?
Does Diversity & Inclusion strategy actually make sense to consider together? Deb Fortin & John Vincent, founders of The Submarine Way, and I discussed this very question last week at lunch. As consultants in the workplace culture space, we spend a lot of our time figuring out the ever-present, elusive question “Who is our target market?” Surprisingly, each of us has independently experienced...
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Featured Guest on the Chicks in Charge Podcast
The desire to be “in charge” is often overlooked by the ability to endure despite your current circumstances. It often means possessing a spirit of leadership and the pursuit of excellence, even when no one is following you! Throughout the pages of the introspective journey from obscurity to success, Mary H. Parker provides a winning blueprint entitled, “The Chick in Charge.”...
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Published by Microsoft.com: Crystal Kadakia converts the myth of ‘lazy, entitled’ millennials into modern workplace strategies
by Vanessa Ho About seven years ago, Crystal Kadakia was a training manager at a Fortune 50 company when she began noticing negative media stories about millennials. She started to see simplistic charts that summed up entire generations – millennials, boomers, Generation X – in a few words. None of it conformed to what she knew. She decided to start Invati Consulting, an Atlanta-based company that helps...
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Digital Communication Guide: From Ignored And Impersonal To Deeper Relationships
Do you remember those days where you knew exactly who would be in the room for a meeting? Or the moment you raise a hand to knock at a friend’s door, on the fly, just to see what they are up to? Or when you had no choice but to see someone face to face to tell them something important? Digital technology — laptops, smartphones, and the Internet — changed all of that. The options for how we can connect with one...
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Published by ATD: A New World of Learning Clusters for L&D
Has L&D already given up on having a presence in informal learning? Are we going to remain stuck in our world of classes and courses, the world of counting seats filled and clicks on e-learning? We’re seeing some L&D professionals willing to embrace new possibilities, but most are struggling to find a way forward. That’s no surprise; our industry is facing a staggering increase in complexity as well as...
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Podcast by Nonfiction4Life: In Depth Look at The Millennial Myth
Even as digital technology is disrupting workplace culture, Crystal Kadakia, author of The Millennial Myth: Transforming Misunderstanding into Workplace Breakthroughs, is aiming to solve the biggest human capital trend of our next decade: millennials in the workplace. To remain competitive, we not only need generational diversity; we need to embrace, harness, engage modern talent. As a thought leader and...
Read MoreThe #1 Missing Ingredient in Your Company’s Millennial Retention Strategy
Priyan, 26, was the golden child at his Fortune 500 financial services firm. Everyone knew it, and the numbers showed it, so nobody was surprised when his boss excitedly pulled him into the VP’s office to deliver good news. After listing Priyan’s accomplishments, his boss’ boss gave the floor to the VP. “Priyan, soon you’ll have my job. You can even have this unnecessarily large office if you’d like” she...
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The Invisibles: Consequences for Organizations with the Diverse & Assimilated
The concept of Diversity & Inclusion as we see it in action is somewhat flawed. The first word, diversity, describe what exists: a set of different groups. The second word, inclusion, begins to describe the goal: to create space where these different groups are (ideally) equally appreciated. Many organizations first focus on increasing diversity by striving to recruit a more varied set of individuals. As...
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What Clues Do Millennials Hold for Modern Learning and Development?
Millennials: the word we are – dare I say it – sick of. Yet we still don’t understand how to deal with the changes that became urgent when this generation joined the workplace. I began speaking on this topic over five years ago when I saw HR leaders repeating generational stereotypes. In my work, I have given over 100 talks that have left attendees saying, “I will never use the words ‘lazy’ and ‘entitled’ again”...
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Where Did Uber Go Wrong? A Story of Transformation and Talent
A survey conducted by IBM in 2015 highlighted that one of the biggest fears CEOs had was to be “Uber-ized” - having their industry get disrupted by a digital start-up that presents a transformative new model for how consumers utilize a service or product. More recently, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick resigned in a surprise move, amidst months of workplace culture concerns, perceived driver mistreatment, multiple...
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