Simma Lieberman helps organizations create environments where people can do their best work and be successful. She specializes in Diversity and Inclusion, Diversity Dialogues, and Eliminating Fear and Self-doubt. Simma is the co-author with Kate Berardo and George Simons of the book "Putting Diversity to Work." She can be reached at http://www.simmalieberman.com
Interviewers are human, and all carry with them some assumptions about different types of people. You need to recognize the most likely biases people have toward you and prepare to address these biases in interviews to minimize their impact.
Many different events, both spiritual, religious, and tradition based, are celebrated in many different ways. These occassions can be used to be with friends and family to build understanding and awareness about others. One should always be respectful of these differences by taking interest in other people's traditions and making them feel welcome.
There are four main causes of holiday stress: gift giving obligations, expenses, a lack of time, and unrealistic expectations about creating a perfect holiday.
By learning to speak to a diverse audience, you can broaden your client base transfer the learning to more people. We need to be more "PC". Were not talking "political correctness", were talking "Positively Conscious", of who is in our audience and understanding how to make people feel included.
If there is not enough diversity in your employee base or there is high turnover with certain groups of employees, your organization will not be able to leverage the power of diversity.
Reaching resisters and naysayers of diversity efforts is unlikely only with training—a more multi-faceted approach is needed to help these individuals see the value of diversity in their organizations...
The "control, change, or let go" concept is an important key to stress management. We spend too much time worrying about things over which we have no control that we have no energy left to control the things we can.....
Self-doubt and fear interfere with our ability to achieve or set goals. Self-doubt and fear are the voices in our head telling us, "You'll never succeed, so why try?" and "who do you think you are?" Self-doubt and fear are also what make us listen to those voices and decide to give up before we get started.
To be a successful business in today’s culture you need to create an environment of inclusion where people feel valued and integrated into a company’s mission, vision and business strategy at all levels.
For an organization to successfully leverage the diversity of its organization to improve its performance. Diversity must be part of your overall business strategy and, your organization must move from representation and numbers to inclusion at every level. You will only be successful if you bring in diversity leaders who not only have knowledge of but a passion for diversity.
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