To better understand the importance of workplace culture, SHRM conducted a study in 12 countries to identify workplace trends across the globe. SHRM found, by and large, that workplace culture remains positive across the 12 countries. Even a pandemic couldn’t wreak havoc on workplace culture, which speaks to the strides that organizations have made in recent years.

Kantola has been named a Top Workplace in San Francisco Bay Area Top Workplaces. This award recognizes companies that “make the world a better place to work together by prioritizing a people-centered culture and giving employees a voice.”

If you are struggling to demonstrate the effectiveness of your commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI), you are not alone. Research backs up your concerns, but there is an answer to this dilemma.

For 75 years, SHRM has served millions of HR professionals who-in turn have continued on to impact the lives of billions of workers across the world. When we attended SHRM22 in New Orleans last week, we celebrated the relationships formed over those years and how we can move forward collectively to make workplaces better, for everyone.

What does it look like to prepare the world’s future business leaders to be stewards of diversity, equity and inclusion? For Yale School of Management (SOM), it means shaping an environment that reflects the value they place on inclusivity and the kind of culture they are striving to shape, within the school, and into the world.

The National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) released a report in 2020 alongside the TIME’S UP Legal Defense Fund as a response to the #MeToo movement that swept the nation in 2017. The data revealed nearly one in five people (18 percent) said they had experienced discrimination or harassment based on gender and other aspects of their identities in the workplace—and that was two years ago.

Inclusive leadership can make the difference between organization-wide engagement with diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and widespread indifference. But while there’s a fair amount of talk about inclusive leadership, there’s much less in the way of guidance on how to put it into practice. This makes cultivating and engaging inclusive leaders a sometimes unseen or little mentioned DEI strategy.

Kantola is honored to announce being awarded six Telly Awards for our Harassment Prevention and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion eLearning courses—produced in partnership with Littler, the world’s largest employment law firm.

A lot has changed in our workplaces (and for our employees) over the last two years. Now more than ever, the emphasis on your diversity and inclusion efforts is in the spotlight. We already know there is joy, power, and positive kickbacks when you recognize the full value of everyone on your team.

You already know managers are critical to ensuring your organizational DEI efforts are successful. But did you know that to be a constructive part of DEI, managers have a specific set of needs that must be met?