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Let’s dive into Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, & Belonging across communities and stages of the employee lifecycle. Join us as we discuss being a resource for employees by creating psychological safety, authentic engagement, and career growth for all.
Learning the Rules to Break Them
Nicole Miller discusses her journey at Buffer experimenting with People practices like transparent feedback, the four day work week, self managed salaries, and more. Read the interview to find out which policies stuck and which were thrown out.
Do New Laws Actually Get Us to Pay Equity?
Laws have been changing rapidly around compensation transparency and in an effort for pay parity over the last few years. These changes are exciting to see, but is it rapid enough?
DE&I is a Journey
Marco Lindsey is the Associate Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Berkeley Haas School of Business and he also owns MT Lindsey Consulting. Read more to learn about his journey into the DE&I space and the incredible work he is doing.
How to Eradicate a Pay Secrecy Culture
Breaking the taboo rooted in inequity and sharing your pay isn’t easy, but eradicating pay secrecy culture is a must. We share three steps to turn talking about pay from taboo to the thing to do.
Centering Relationships to Bring Healing to DE&I
How can restorative justice and a trauma informed approach impact relationship building and healing within the DE&I space? Learn more about the tools and practices that Armando Hernandez applies in this interview.
6 Ways to Support Your Transgender & Nonbinary Employees
As we observe Transgender Awareness Day, we reflect on how to support transgender and non-binary employees at work.
Developing a Feedback Culture That Sticks
A healthy work environment is one where an honest, constructive, well-guided feedback culture is set in place. Developing a feedback culture that sticks can benefit an org in many different ways, read more to learn how.
Burnout: How to deal with it
On this World Mental Health Day, let's talk about burnout. Burnout is real and can lead to mental exhaustion and depersonalization from work. Understanding how to deal with burnout is important to foster a healthy work-life balance.
3 Things To Consider When Setting Your Pay Philosophy
Conducting a pay equity audit is the best way to ensure you are paying fairly and equitably. Step one is setting your pay philosophy, learn more about the things you should consider when doing just that.
Building Inclusive Teams Through Allyship
People will say, “I can't get women or BIPOC into my C suite.” And it's like, can't or are you not addressing any of the actual systemic barriers in place? Then we say things like, oh, we just need to get more Canaries. And no, that's not the answer. What we need to do is address the toxicity of the environment.
Cultivating Confidence by Tackling Imposter Syndrome
Imposter syndrome is the feeling of not being cut out for the work you're doing or the work you want to be doing, often in spite of evidence to the contrary.
Slave Trade Remembrance Day - Why it Matters
The slave trade may have happened decades ago yet its negative impact still proves to linger amongst Black communities, especially in America. How did it impact the American economy and the Black communities?
Why Unpaid Internships Shouldn’t Exist
Unpaid internships, in college they’re a rite of passage to get a taste of the working world. They are typically the foundation of college program work experience requirements, a way for college students to work in the field they are interested in, and to get their foot in the door. However, should unpaid internships exist? Should they even be legal?
7 Common Forms of Bias And How to Remove Them From Your Hiring Process
The hiring process is an area where a lot of decision-making has to happen in a short time, so naturally, lots of biases arise. In order to close the opportunity gap, we have to eliminate the bias in decision-making in the workforce. Read more to learn how.
Accessibility & Compassion—an Exploration of a New Kind of Leadership
Dee Borgoyn is a consultant, trainer, coach and speaker who is dedicated to building diverse and inclusive workplace cultures. I sat down with Dee to discuss her work in the DE&I space, disability inclusion, ageism, and her book 28 Ways of Compassion.
Developing a Comprehensive Pay Equity Strategy
Educating people about pay equity is one of my greatest passions because the pay gap is a problem with concrete solutions. We can close the gap by putting the tools we have to work.
Use the Language of an Ally
Language matters! It is a huge part of our culture, it is ever-changing, and the way we speak about people impacts our thoughts and feelings.
Money Talks: How To Communicate Pay Decisions
Transparency in pay systems and decision making leads to more equitable pay and more trust from employees. Knowing this, the question becomes, ‘How do we communicate more transparent pay when the system and decisions have been secret in the past?’
Advocating for Non-Traditional Talent
The thing about not having a college degree, I think some of the biggest obstacles for me were in confidence. I think that it just added another layer because I'm already Mexican. I'm already a Brown woman.
Busting the Myth That People Leave Their Managers
We hear it all the time, “Well you know, people don’t leave their job, they leave their managers.” But does the data support it?