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What are your organization's cultural attitudes? Having unhealthy or dysfunctional attitudes can interfere significantly with successful strategy implementation. A company's culture is defined as “the shared values, attitudes and practices that characterize an organization.” It's the personality of your company,and it lays the foundation for employees overall satisfaction.
The challenge in including neurodiverse individuals in the workplace is often a lack of awareness and inclusive infrastructure. James Townend, an ASD corporate trainer that lives the experience himself, recounts: "…neurotypicals like things in a box, or template, as it is easier to understand. When you go out of the box, that brings discomfort. I bring my diagnosis up as I want to be honest and because I am proud of who I am. But are others as accepting?"
As a highly regarded business leader, Ajay Sharma shares his insight into the importance of thought leadership, how to steer your business mindset towards thought leadership, and what achieving success looks like. Learn:
How to tell if your business culture is ready for innovative leadership?
How can a company get started with thought leadership?
So, let’s take for example the new hire, often referred to as the ‘diversity hire.’ This phrase usually refers to an employee from an underrepresented group. This term is disparaging and bias implying the new employee was hired to tick the diversity box, not based on merit. Simply by using this term within the company, the individual might be singled out.
There is no disputing that organizational changes when the business environment demands them are necessary, however storming in with abrupt change is distracting, disruptive, and promotes disengagement. Because you have actionable goals to meet, future forward ideas, and have been hired to make a difference does not mean there is collective thinking around your ‘plan’…or at least not yet.
The most prevalent crimes committed on college campuses include burglary, motor vehicle theft, sexual assault and fondling, harassment, and discrimination complaints. According to stats Canada in 2019, one in ten women students who were attending postsecondary school had been sexually assaulted in the postsecondary setting in the preceding year—approximately 110,000 individual women students.
SAGE TECHWORK celebrates the first class of graduates. Software QA testing students are open to work. From -Levvel Inc. and Community Futures Treaty Seven.
For many years, change professionals (myself included) have used the analogy of the burning platform to create urgency behind change. The logic goes: if you create a place where no one wants to (or can) be anymore, there will be no choice but to change!