News From A Colorful Perspective
Two months after the highly publicized, and eventual flop, of Starbucks’ diversity training, a transgender employee with the company for nine years has filed a lawsuit because her manager in Fresno, Calif., made her work days intolerable. Maddie Wade, who loved her colleagues at Starbucks, said she had a good…
By making yesterday’s diversity training optional, Starbucks revealed top management indecision about its own principles and how to treat customers. Do you think Roseanne would attend diversity training, or skip it Who needs it more And let’s be very clear diversity training is not “sensitivity” training; it’s competency training. Your…
National Hispanic Heritage Month is celebrated annually from Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 byrecognizing the history, culture and contributions of Latino Americans. HispanicHeritage Week was commemorated in 1968 by President Lyndon Johnson andexpanded to a month in 1988. This isthe perfect time to increase your entire company’sawareness of the very…
What Is Diversity Management Diversity management is the strategy of using best practices with proven results to find and create a diverse and inclusive workplace. Successful strategies link diversity progress directly to business results. Best practices include effective use ofexecutive diversity councils,mentoring and sponsorship programsandemployee resource groupsto achieve desired results…
Luke Visconti: How does diversity management help TD Bank reach an increasingly diverse footprint, both in and outside the United States Bharat Masrani: Within TD, this has been a very strategic initiative that started many, many years ago. Obviously, diversity is the right moral thing to do. But it is…
Question: Do you think diversity training is effective? What would make it effective? Answer: Most of the “diversity training” I’ve seen is not very sophisticated. Some companies think “compliance” training is diversity training, but that’s incorrect. In my opinion, to build a good diversity-training program, you have to first have…
More than 50 percent of the Benchmarking debriefs we do each year are with CEOs and executive teams of the 80 companies that are our clients. We also have published 12 one-on-one interviews with CEOs in DiversityInc this year and have had 15 CEOs speak at our events. Having observed…
By Barbara Frankel What should you do if one of your executives uses a negative stereotype, especially in a public forum How can you make sure your workplace doesn’t tolerate these types of damaging misconceptions, which impact morale and productivity Learn a lesson from recent verbal missteps by presidential hopefuls…
Don’t be fooled by all their late nights and hard work: Your employees WILL leave you. And if they come from underrepresented groups, they’ll probably leave faster. With today’s average tenure of employees down to two years or less, employers need to take it up a notch if they want…
Read more Ask DiversityInc questions and answers here. Q: DO YOU REQUIRE: A certain percentage of women and people of color in management That the company has a diversity award program That the company has affinity groups That the company has mandatory diversity training for the workforce A: We analyze…
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