Combating uncivil or bad behavior is ultimately about workplace culture, values, ongoing behavior and accountability. Here are some important developments and ideas to consider when it comes to your workplace environment, potential learning opportunities and the overall health of your organization:
Campuses Cautiously Train Freshmen Against Subtle Insults
Microaggressions are comments, snubs or insults that communicate derogatory or negative messages that might not be intended to cause harm but are targeted at people based on their membership in a marginalized group. Among the tips offered by Sheree Marlowe, the new chief diversity officer at Clark University: Don’t ask an Asian student you don’t know for help on your math homework or randomly ask a black student if he plays basketball. Both questions make assumptions based on stereotypes. Continue reading…
How Sexual Harassment Training Misses the Mark
The rapid fall of Fox News Chairman and CEO Roger Ailes amidst multiple sexual harassment claims has once again brought the diciest of workplace issues to the forefront. What can your company do to ensure it’s not the next story on the evening news? Having a strict written policy coupled with training can be a step in the right direction. But “Too many organizations take a cosmetic approach rather than one that recognizes this issue requires ongoing maintenance, regular attention,” said Stephen Paskoff, founder of the Atlanta-based workplace training and learning company ELI. Continue reading…
3 Big Myths About Workplace Learning
Most Chief Learning Officers are working hard to connect with their workforce. According to the Brandon Hall Group, 61 percent of learning and development leaders think workers should engage with their resources at least once a week. Yet, in a webinar poll conducted with Chief Learning Officer earlier this year, only 20 percent of learning leaders said their employees do. To help learning and development teams better engage employees, Degreed recently surveyed 512 people to understand how today’s workforce builds their skills and careers. The findings, summarized in the “How the Workforce Learns in 2016” report, calls out three common myths about workplace learning. Continue reading…
Incivility: A Workplace Epidemic
Condescending comments, put-downs and sarcasm have become commonplace in the politically charged workplace, and a new study co-authored by a Michigan State University business scholar shows how this incivility may be spreading. Reporting in the Journal of Applied Psychology, Russell Johnson, associate professor of management at the university’s Eli Broad College of Business, and colleagues found that experiencing such rude behavior reduces employees’ self-control and leads them to act in a similar uncivil manner. In other words, they pay the incivility forward. Continue reading…
We Are Nurses: Stop the Bullying in Health Care
Bullies are everywhere. In the nursing workforce, in the OR, in the emergency department, in ICUs, in floor nursing, in nursing homes and assisted living centers. They are older nurses who can be cruel to the younger nurses, managers and directors that turn their backs on the nurses that plead for help, physicians that belittle the nurses, and the list goes on and on. The situations and circumstances, unfortunately, are endless. And in the land of nurses being loving, caring. saving lives and being unselfish in all that they do, there is a percentage nationwide, universally that is destroying the core of what good nursing is all about. Continue reading…
One of the Best Ways To Become a Top Performing Company
Want to become a top performing company? Create a diverse leadership team that reflects the diversity of the customers you serve, and ensure that everyone on your team feels fully included as a vital member. Just ask Target, the nation’s No. 3 retailer, and a long-standing role model for diversity. Studies demonstrate that more diverse businesses perform better than their less diverse competitors, supporting the view that diversity is a strong competitive advantage in today’s marketplace. Continue reading…
How Millennials Are Disrupting The Workforce — for the Better
Much has been written about the challenge of working with Millennials. Sure, the sense of entitlement and the “thank-you-for-playing-awards” that they grew up with aren’t exactly the ideal recipes for winning in business. However, what is less known is just how Millennials are positively disrupting the workplace. Moreover, they’re doing so with significant implications for organizational leadership. If you want to stay competitive in today’s fast-paced, changing world, take a lesson or two from the Millennial people. Continue reading…
The Deloitte Millennial Survey 2016
Millennials, in general, express little loyalty to their current employers, according to Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Limited’s 5th Annual Millennial Survey. Deloitte surveyed nearly 7,700 Millennials from 29 countries during September and October 2015 to learn more about Millennials’ values and ambitions, drivers of job satisfaction, and their increasing representation in senior management teams. View the survey results here…
