Barriers to achieving gender-balanced leadership are deeply rooted and persistent. Outdated thinking patterns and corporate narratives are partially to blame.
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Time to Rethink Managerial Training: Collaboration and Diversity Require Different Managerial Skills
Given that managers play such a pivotal role in creating the inclusive culture needed for successful collaboration, how can we train managers to develop collaborative and inclusive teams?
There are four tools that have been shown to work with people worldwide: story, video, interactivity and localization.
Experiential learning is the process of learning through experience. It’s been around since about 350 B.C. when Aristotle wrote in the Nicomachean Ethics, "for the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them."
By having a common language about preferences, a new team can rapidly surface its work styles and strengths, bolster awareness, and even up its “conflict competence” down the road.
Implicit biases are unintentional subliminal beliefs or attitudes that affect our understanding, actions and decisions in an unconscious manner.
Much evidence supports the business case for gender diversity. What needs to be done to attract, retain and develop female sales talent?
Throughout history, there have been various gaps: racial, gender, income, education, skills gaps, etc. Society today is not any different.
Training organizations are well-positioned to improve day-to-day employee culture and overall business performance.
With the right supports in place, hiring employees with autism can provide real benefits by increasing diversity and filling skills gaps with an almost untapped group of employees.