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Here are some tips to help you grow your ERG member base.

Redesigning your role after maternity leave can lead to career acceleration but it means setting clear goals, forensically analyzing how you spend your time, consciously not doing things that aren’t core to meeting your goals, over-communicating, and then course-correcting when required.

As you’re navigating the choppy waters of a recession, don’t lose sight of your larger goal, which is to find work that aligns with your skills, values, and passions.

Provides great background / foundational knowledge of bias, stereotypes and prejudice and the effects it can have in communities and workplaces.

10 women of color were interviewed in order to understand the challenges they face in the workplace, how they cope with those challenges, and how those coping mechanisms affect their chances of long-term success.

Fixing performance reviews won’t magically change these dismal numbers overnight. But it’s an important step toward building a culture of mutual respect, inclusivity, and psychological safety for all. So how to take that step?

A unique and fascinating data set allowed us to explore the language used to describe individuals in subjective performance evaluations and provides evidence that, as we suspected, language in performance evaluations is applied differently to describe men and women.

The most visible aspect of hiring that influences the makeup of your candidate pool is your job descriptions. In job descriptions, words are your primary tool, and academic research has shown that many common words used in job descriptions have male or female associations.

Organizations have struggled with the concept of middle manager engagement since middle managers became part of the picture. And this phenomenon is not reserved for Diversity and Inclusion practitioners alone. Too often, organizations forget the simple things when it comes to middle managers—like respecting their knowledge and ideas, and capitalizing on their potential. When organizations begin treating their middle managers like leaders, like the life blood of the organization, it will be a whole lot easier to engage them.

Source: Profiles in Diversity Journal

So how do we get more organizations to start walking the talk when it comes to bringing more women into leadership roles? One way is through mentoring. Here are three ways to use mentoring to help elevate your female employees. 

Increasing ethnic, cultural and gender diversity in leadership roles can have big benefits for those involved and your bottom line. 

This article answers some of the most common questions people ask when launching a mentoring program.  

New research shows a direct link between inclusive decision making and better business performance.

If inclusive leadership feels easy, you’re doing it wrong. It takes effort, and because it’s worth it, leaders need to embrace the inevitable discomfort that comes with leading inclusively. 

Why are certain leaders more likely to create an inclusive culture? Fortunately, scientific research provides a great deal of evidence to answer this question, and there are three specific traits that stand out.

Great article that provides an overview of what six companies are doing to support inclusion with links to the more in-depth case studies.   

This article takes a fresh look at the business case for inclusion and what may be holding leaders back.

How AI, gamification, machine learning, and analytics is changing how companies recruit Generation Z.

How can organizations best promote diversity and inclusion via women leadership?  Here are some real-life examples of women in leadership roles across sectors in today’s workplace.

Women in the Workplace 2018 is the largest comprehensive study of the state of women in corporate America. In this 2018 report published by LeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company 279 companies employing more than 13 million people shared their pipeline data and completed a survey of their HR practices. Progress isn’t just slow—it’s stalled. And we know why. 

Why is it so hard for white people to talk about racism? It is a question posed by the white academic Robin DiAngelo.

To speak of violence done by black people without uttering so much as a word about the violence done to them is perverse.

In the LGBT Organization Guide, you will find a full list of good LGBTQ related organizations in every sector and by country. The list includes gay rights organizations, gay activist groups, gay and lesbian organizations.

People often find comfort in black-and-white thinking. While choosing from two clearly defined categories might seem easy, the truth is, it rarely serves you well. Rather than black and white, the world is largely composed of shades of gray, or even different colors entirely — this is especially true when it comes to gender.