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How Important Is Coaching in Professional Development?

Leading Blog

You asked for a sample goal. For the client who feels overwhelmed – create a self-care menu and use one entry daily; for one who manages a large team, document what wows you about your employees and where they need to improve to make giving feedback easier at performance review time.

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The Unintended Consequences of Diversity Statements

Harvard Business Review

Pro-diversity messages are everywhere, whether you’re searching for a job, playing soccer , or watching the Oscars. Their point is simple: Diversity is good and we need more of it. The thinking, presumably, is that such statements will increase the diversity of their applicant pool and ultimately of their workforce.

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7 Practical Ways to Reduce Bias in Your Hiring Process

Harvard Business Review

” In the workplace, this “can stymie diversity, recruiting, promotion, and retention efforts.” “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.” “Managers have to learn to de-bias their practices and procedures.” ” Give a work sample test.

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4 Reasons to Kill the Office Holiday Party—and One Reason to Save It

Harvard Business Review

Managers expect the annual gathering to do a few good things for the workplace: to encourage coworkers to get to know each other informally; to appreciate and celebrate the year’s good work by all; to remind everyone they are part of “one company.” ” Diversity suffers.

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How to Curate Your Own Personal Job Feed

Harvard Business Review

For instance, the Society for Human Resource Management has a job board, as does the American Marketing Association. If you want to work at a company specifically seeking diverse job candidates, a Google search on "diversity jobs" yields sites such as DiversityJobs.com. Industry is not the only niche, of course.

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Should a Woman Act More Like a Man to Succeed at Work?

Great Leadership By Dan

New DDI research explores leadership differences between men and women and makes the case for gender diversity in the workplace. The research also provides a snapshot view and analysis of gender diversity across countries and industries. The disparity in gender diversity has little to do with competence levels.” Wellins, Ph.D.,

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Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?

Harvard Business Review

Interacting with two or more cultural contexts can help immigrants combine diverse ideas, solutions, and customer problems in order to create something entirely new. Entrepreneurs and managers can actively seek to build such experiences by living abroad and systematically comparing what they observe in other markets.