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.
Natasha Nicholson
Natasha Nicholson
Natasha Nicholson is the Senior Content Manager at Kantola Training Solutions, an innovative e-Learning company focused on Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion and Harassment Prevention training solutions. She is responsible for thought leadership, content strategy and production. Her background includes more than 20 years as a content leader, communication strategist and editor. Prior to Kantola, she was the Content Director for the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC), and served as Executive Editor for Communication World and Catalyst magazines.
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Case StudiesDiversity, Equity & Inclusion
Yale School of Management: Making DEI critical to preparing future business leaders
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.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
The missing DEI strategy: Cultivating inclusive leadership
by Natasha Nicholson 5 min readInclusive 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.
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionEditor's Picks
Managers and their unique DEI needs
by Natasha Nicholson 4 min readYou 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?
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionEditor's Picks
Reshaping the employee experience to attract and retain talent
A culture of inclusivity is critical to achieving a successful and thriving organization and the latest research shows getting there is closely tied to the employee experience.
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Editor's PicksHarassment Prevention
Bystander Intervention: culture change through harassment prevention
by Natasha Nicholson 4 min readEffective bystander intervention is more accessible said than done, so your decisions around your training options become critical.
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionEditor's Picks
Storytelling and inclusivity: the power to learn and connect
by Natasha Nicholson 5 min readStorytelling is an ancient art that has endured through the millennia because it has the power to capture the imagination, demystify complex issues and create meaningful connections between people with different experiences, insights and perspectives.
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionEditor's PicksHarassment Prevention
How to strengthen harassment training and improve workplace culture
According to a recent survey by employee feedback management platform All Voices, 44% of full-time workers experienced harassment at work in the form of personal harassment and bullying, discriminatory harassment and bias, or online harassment and cyber bullying. Further, 48% have witnessed others experience harassment at work, 52% have not felt psychologically safe at work and 34% left a job because of unresolved harassment issues.
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionEditor's PicksHarassment Prevention
Talent scarcity and turnover: what’s the solution?
by Natasha Nicholson 6 min readAn acute labor shortage, a scarcity of skilled talent to meet the demands of the future, along with an unprecedented exodus of labor, dubbed the “Great Resignation” has made 2022 a year where recruitment and retention require a new focus and approach.
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Diversity, Equity & InclusionEditor's PicksHarassment Prevention
HR trends for 2022 and beyond
by Natasha Nicholson 5 min readWe’ve combed through the latest research, reflected on opinions from top experts and relied on our own experience with over 15,000 HR professional partners to pull together a list of the latest HR trends you’ll want to keep at the top of your mind for 2022.