tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81363328189138306232024-03-13T23:23:58.299-07:00Difference at Work"Diversity and Inclusion" musings by Elaine Newman and the Global Learning teamGlobal Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.comBlogger57125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-46351578861790669292015-05-12T08:38:00.000-07:002015-05-12T08:38:50.105-07:00Do for Diversity: Dialogue and Develop<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Yes, it is promising that the UN has inspired a <a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/culturaldiversityday/">World day of Cultural Diversity Dialogue and Development</a> intended to provide an opportunity to deepen our understanding of the cultural diversity values and how to learn to live together better. Out of this came the slogan ‘Do One Thing for Diversity and Inclusion.’ </div>
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However, I am intrigued that ‘dialogue’ does not seem to be acknowledged in a way that will evoke the change we need from this potentially powerful mantra. Rather, examples on the website mainly focus on only the doing by exploring different cultural foods, art or theatre. So where is the dialogue?</div>
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To begin with the roots of the word dialogue come from the Greek words dia and logos . Dia mean 'through'; logos translates to 'word' or 'meaning'. In essence, a dialogue is a flow of meaning. In the ancient sense, it also meant a coming together perhaps as community, which we can infer as having relationships.</div>
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Consider how frequently at work or in the media does the word ‘dialogue’ appear. And yet how often do we stop and reflect on what the word actually means …and the possible positive implications?</div>
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William Isaacs Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together writes that:</h3>
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“Dialogue... is a conversation with a center, not sides. It is a way of taking the energy of our differences and channeling it toward something that has never been created before” … and I would add, to achieve something better than even imagined; the benefits of actualizing dialogue.</div>
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The question is how does one dialogue respectfully considering that respect can look so different in a multi-cultural world? That’s where developing your Cultural intelligence or CQ in the four capabilities of drive, knowledge strategy and action is essential. A strong CQ enables each of us to function effectively adapting across various cultural contexts (national, ethnic, organizational, generational, etc.).</div>
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( Soon Ang and Linn Van Dyne, “Conceptualization of Cultural Intelligence” in Handbook of Cultural Intelligence: Theory, Measurement, and Applications (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2008), 3.</div>
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Let’s assume you are motivated to ‘do for diversity’ with the goal of achieving an enhanced understanding of another, thereby strengthening your relationship. Consider reaching out to some one different than your own cultural background and invite them for a coffee. The invitation is to mutually explore each other’s culture through a dialogue of respect from the each other’s perspective.</div>
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How to begin? Given your drive or enjoyment, confidence and understanding of the benefits to this dialogue is already strong, start with some research to gain knowledge about the person’s cultural value dimensions. Think of these dimensions as a range of possibilities- neither end being better than the other and only a starting point of awareness on how to act or behave. For example, there are values on time, family, status and risk. Values such as ‘low context’ express an emphasis on explicit or direct communication that rely on words, while a ‘high context’ stresses indirect communication that is subtler in tone and includes elements of silence.</div>
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However knowing is not enough.</div>
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Plan your strategy with the awareness and intent to adapt your actions because:</h3>
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<li>Research proves we all have biases- both unconscious and conscious (Source: Blind Spots M Banaji A Greenwald). Do the <a href="https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/research/">Implicit Association Test</a> to find out yours.</li>
<li>‘Checking in’ with your self and your colleague will identify for example, the context distinction: what you will ‘hear’ and learn about the content of the answer is different from listening for how it is delivered.</li>
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Uusing the four CQ capabilities of Drive Knowledge and Strategy enables you to Act with more respect having authentically dialogued with an openness to the center. Experience the delight in achieving a meaningful multi cultural connection!</div>
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Just doing it as in Nike’s powerful slogan simply does not cut it in today’s world of global connectedness and conflict. Developing your Cultural Intelligence to Do for Diversity: Dialogue and Develop is the only way to go!</div>
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World Day for Cultural Diversity and for Dialogue and Development</h3>
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In 2001, UNESCO adopted the Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity and in December of 2002, the UN General Assembly declared May 21st to be the World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development, in order to promote tolerance and further our global commitment to cultural diversity. The Universal Declaration was created in the wake of the events of September 11, 2001 at the UNESCO general conference to make the assertion that <a href="http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001271/127160m.pdf#page=10">“respect for the diversity of cultures, tolerance, dialogue and cooperation, in a climate of mutual trust and understanding are among the best guarantees of international peace and security, on a global and international level”</a>. UNESCO’s Universal Declaration lays the groundwork for implementing Cultural Diversity through 12 articles, each comprised of a paragraph or two focusing on a specific aspect for furthering this global initiative.</div>
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Over the past few years there have been several efforts to promote and raise awareness through this international day of action. Most recently in 2011, UNESCO and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNOAC) started a grass roots movement, by the name of “Do One Thing For Diversity and Inclusion” that featured a Facebook page dedicated to individuals and organizations who are taking steps to create more diversity in their lives and leading by example. Since its start, the page has supported things like the Intercultural Innovation Award, the “Do One Thing” video contest, and the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations (UNAOC) Summer School.</div>
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This June 2015 the UNOAC along with Education First (EF) will host the third edition of their “Youth For Change” Summer School program, that that brings together 75 youth leaders from around the world to <a href="http://www.unaoc.org/2015/01/unaoc-and-ef-announce-third-youth-for-change-%20summer-school/">“engage in dialogue across borders, focusing on how to better understand, manage and promote diversity, while also learning how to leverage differences in identity to shape a world that is healthier, safer, more peaceful and inclusive”</a>. It can give us such great hope to see the kind of passion and dedication that many youth have today, as they set out to lead our way towards a more tolerant and diverse world in the future. As the Director- General of UNESCO Irena Bokova so eloquently explains, “it is our responsibility to develop education and intercultural skills in young people to sustain the diversity of our world and to learn to live together in the diversity of our languages, cultures and religions, to bring about change”.</div>
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On a personal level cultural diversity enriches all of our lives with a deeper understanding of the dynamic world around us. In the world of business, <a href="http://graphics.eiu.com/upload/eb/DiversityandInclusion.pdf">cultural diversity is the natural next step in navigating the reality of a global marketplace by helping us to develop a global mindset</a>. As they point out in Forbes, <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/ekaterinawalter/2014/01/14/reaping-the-benefits-of-diversity-for-modern-business-innovation/">“some of the most successful entrepreneurs and most admired leaders will all tell you the same thing, that diversity really is essential to the growth and prosperity of any company, and in many ways it is one of the most critical aspect of an organization’s ability to innovate and adapt in a fast-changing environment”</a>.</div>
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When we break it all down Dialogue leads to Action, and Action leads to Change! When we begin the conversation about cultural diversity and inclusion with those around us we put into motion the gears of possibility. By coming together to understand one another’s culture and background, of what makes us unique, we begin the journey of bridging the gap between nations, coming together for a common goal, a common good. Often when we begin to celebrate each other’s differences we begin to realize that we have more things that unify us than separate us.</div>
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-34905299512641092472015-05-12T05:28:00.001-07:002015-05-12T05:29:30.723-07:00The Global Learning Newsletter: May 2015<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b><span style="color: #20124d;"><i>Welcome! </i></span></b>Global Learning has been keeping busy this last month, as we get set to release our new and improved website in June. Stay tuned for this exciting launch. We’d also like to extend a warm thank you to our valued strategic partner <a href="https://www.camsc.ca/">CAMSC</a>, for including Global Learning in their annual Procurement Fair. </div>
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<br />Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-59953820511164072262015-05-11T18:31:00.000-07:002015-05-12T04:58:45.290-07:00Getting to Know You: Shawn Mintz, MentorCity <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This month we had the opportunity to interview Shawn Mintz, the founder and creator of <a href="https://mentorcity.com/">MentorCity</a>, and Global Learning’s newest strategic partner. It was such an honor to speak with Shawn, a brilliant man, with an inspiring story about chasing your dreams and doing what you love. When Shawn begins to tell you about mentoring and the passion that he has for it, you immediately get a sense that he has found his calling and he is truly living it!<br />
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Shawn spent the first 13 years of his career in the non-for profit sector, working for an organization that helped newcomers to Canada to get their first job. He was hired by the company as a career counselor, but soon went on to create an entire marketing department for the organization. A few years later he developed and established his first “mentoring initiative that was offered on a regular basis, sometimes up to three to four times a week”. Shawn recalled those first mentoring sessions and how, “whenever I could I would just sneak into the room and I would just watch people. I loved their hand gestures, their facial expressions and how excited they were when they were having those mentoring conversations”. He loved how “at the end of every single event, the mentees were ready to take on the world, and the mentors also felt amazing because they were able to pay it forward and really give back to the community”.<br />
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“Everyone was so excited during those mentoring sessions, that the energy literally filled the room”.<br />
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That was the moment when Shawn realized that if mentoring had that kind of impact on people’s lives, he wanted to do more of it! From there, the spark was ignited, and he started to write about mentoring and later began writing a book. It was around this time, while preparing to have a meeting with one of his own mentors, that he had an idea. “I realized that there were just so many books out there about mentoring but there really wasn’t anything that actually matched people to mentors, like an E-Harmony, but for mentors”. Shawn shared his idea with his own mentor, who responded with great enthusiasm and basically gave him the confidence and encouragement to begin pursing his idea. It was from that mentor meeting that “I just really started focusing on the business plan and turning it into reality. So I left my fulltime job and followed my dream. I always wanted to be an entrepreneur, so I jumped ship to create a dream company”<br />
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Shawn went on to tell me about his company and how his mentoring program works. MentorCity, which was founded in 2011, offers private mentoring programs to companies and is designed to connect employees within a particular organization to one another, by matching mentees to mentors, and then leading those matches through the entire mentoring process. For instance “if you were an employee you would go onto the site, you would fill out your profile which is all LinkedIn compatible, and include all of the skills that you are interested in developing. Whether you want to improve your presentation skills, or your self- confidence for example. Then you could search through a bunch of criteria based on what kind of mentor you’re looking for. Whether you want to find someone who has a similar job function, a different job function or a mentor who has experience in another industry all together. Finally you would click on save and search, at which point you would receive your most compatible mentor matches. You could then look through their profiles and invite someone to be your mentor”.<br />
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The site takes the process one-step further by helping you to input your mentoring objectives and goals, enabling you to talk back and forth to your mentor or mentee to arrange meetings, while giving you a place to track those relationships at the same time. In addition to this, as an administrator or as one of the companies that has purchased the MentorCity program, “you are given the ability to build a successful and effective mentoring program that really works, a mentoring program that leads their employees through the entire process, that is easy and comprehensive, while always keeping things on track by sending regular remarks, and reminders”. Shawn also mentioned that MentorCity offers a public website that is available to anyone in the world, and is their way of giving back. Case in point, “if someone doesn’t belong to one of the companies that has signed up with the program, they could sign up on the public site and find a mentor from anywhere around the world”.<br />
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When asked what some of the biggest benefits are from implementing mentoring programs, Shawn responded by saying that so much of it has to do with employee engagement. “When you have a mentor in the company where you work, you are going be more involved, feel so much more included, committed and less likely to leave that company. Mentoring is about recruiting talent of course, but it is also about keeping that talent within your organization. As a result mentoring can have a positive impact on employees as well as the company as a whole. “Mentoring is also good for a company’s ROI, based on the fact that if an employee leaves who you have invested a lot of money, resources and time into, you could end up losing up to $20,000 just replacing that one person, depending on their level within the organization”. A mentoring initiative will help you to keep those valuable employees while helping more people to really reach their full potential within their company.<br />
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Shawn went on to explain that mentoring also becomes an important part of succession planning, especially due to the fact that so many people are going to be retiring from the workforce over the next few years. As a result, it is really important for companies to start transferring the knowledge from their senior employees on to the next generation. In addition to this, Shawn talked about how MentorCity is working with a lot of companies on their high potential programs. “Leadership development is huge and that goes had in hand with high potential as a lot of companies continue developing their future leaders”. In this regard, a company would identify their high potential performers and then they would offer them a mentoring program to ensure that they continue their growth within the company.<br />
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Shawn expressed further how mentoring is also about diversity and inclusion and that MentorCity is “working with a lot of clients who are helping to create a more diverse and inclusive workforce. Whether it’s for some of their affinity or resource groups, or for women for example, they are creating mentoring communities to connect to other mentors within the organization”. Moreover “what is really amazing about mentoring, and really important for diversity and inclusion is that these mentoring relationships have the potential to turn into sponsorship relationships. A sponsor relationship is a little bit different than a mentor, in that a sponsor is the person who literally goes to bat for you. They help you get that promotion. So as a mentor it’s more about them helping you to get where you need to go by giving you guidance, encouragement and support. The sponsor on the other hand takes a more active role. That is huge for diversity. When you have those sponsors within your organization, those people who really believe in you, who really believe in your abilities, they’re going to talk to other people about you, they’re going to help you get that promotion. That’s what is key I think. Having those ambassadors, your own ambassadors within an organization, who are going to help you get to that next level.<br />
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“This invites companies to really open their eyes and explore other potential talent within their organization that they may have otherwise overlooked, if they didn’t have this sponsor, this advocate, this person who believes in them. Furthermore “the power of mentoring is that those connections that people are making are totally game changing, because you never know exactly where a mentor relationship will lead, it opens up other networks, it opens up other opportunities, it helps develop your skill sets and your knowledge”.<br />
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Last but not least I asked Shawn to tell me about the brand new strategic alliance that has been created between MentorCity and Global Learning, and what it means to him. “What really excites me about this partnership is that together we can do so much more, in terms of really helping companies to leverage the diverse talent that they have. At the same time we create meaningful mentoring relationships for organizations, while ensuring that each of their employees will have the opportunity to reach the level they want within their chosen field. I strongly believe with Global Learning’s strategy, their training solutions and their resources, together with MentorCity’s technology, we have the potential to change workplaces faster. Above all, MentorCity is not only passionate about making sure that every one of their mentoring program works, but also that every mentoring relationship works. I see this partnership working really well because our two businesses really go hand in hand.”<br />
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If you’d like to learn more about MentorCity and how this resource can advance the relationships, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion in your organization, please contact Elaine Newman at 416-488-0175 or <a href="mailto:enewman@egloballearning.com">enewman@egloballearning.com</a>.<br />
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<br />Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-57393475727165820942015-05-05T15:01:00.000-07:002015-05-05T15:03:42.648-07:00Flexible Work Arrangement Week 2015: May 3-9th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The concept of Flexible-work has become a rather hot topic over recent years with issues like job strain, role conflict and the difficulties that many individuals face when balancing their work and family obligations”. (1) At the same time more and more employers are recognizing the positive impact that flexible work initiatives can have for their employees by helping to promote better mental and physical health in the workplace, while increasing overall job satisfaction.<br />
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Achieving work/life balance is an increasing challenge today with “time demands, scheduling dilemmas, and the problems that arise when work spills into home life or when home demands spill into work life”. Furthermore, “crisis-oriented work patterns and chaotic work routines that demand workers’ constant presence, can make breaking away from work difficult, magnifying this strain. By measuring productivity and commitment based on “face-time”, rather than the amount of work that an employee has accomplished”, we can create further issues. (2) On the other hand, when we introduce alternatives to the “one size fits all” work model, we create the potential to improve the quality of peoples lives by allowing for more flexibility, while at the same time strengthening employee loyalty, creating less turnover, and ultimately increasing a company’s overall profits.<br />
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An example of this potential can be seen in a recent sociological study that used an “already existing corporate initiative by the name of the Results Only Work Environment (ROWE) to predict corresponding changes to health-related outcomes”. Collecting “longitudinal data from 659 white-collar employees, at the headquarters of a Fortune 500 company in the United States, the study looked at moving employees and supervisors away from time oriented measures of work success, to a completely results based appraisal of productivity and accomplishment”. The results showed “that by increasing the employees’ scheduling control and reducing their work-family conflict, ROWE innovation promoted employee wellness and increased productivity, while lowering the costs borne by employers for health care as well as absenteeism”.(4) In another study that looked at employees using flexible work arrangements, they found that “63% of workers said that they were absent less often as a result of their flexible work arrangement schedule”.(5) Furthermore flexible work programs enable employers to schedule work across larger portions of the day, while allowing them to make more efficient use of facilities, while often requiring smaller office spaces including less equipment.(6) Flexible Work Programs have also become an important tool for retaining valuable employees and attracting future talent.<br />
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However, one of the “challenges that companies sometimes face when implementing flexible work programs, is a hesitancy from supervisors to promote this flexibility, due to apprehension with regards to the impact it may have on work quality and productivity”. (7) What many have found is that this concern can be quite accurate when flexible work programs are not implemented properly. Another issue that arises when discussing the pros and cons of flexible work arrangements is with regards to accessibility, and whether or not the requests for such programs are well received by employers and management. In one study “78% of respondents feared that they would be perceived as less committed to their jobs by their supervisors if they utilized flexible work arrangements. Employees also reported frustrations stemming from inconsistent program implementation, and for some workers access to flexibility appeared to be based on the sole discretion of a given manager”. (8)<br />
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Accessibility and flexible work arrangements can also be subject to unconscious gender bias. In another noted study “researchers found that men in high-status, non-hourly positions who said they wanted to advance their careers were most likely to be granted a compressed work schedule, while women in similar scenarios seeking flextime were far less likely to get it. Meanwhile, men in low-status careers who asked for family flex time were more likely to have their requests approved than women in like situations. In this situation, managers tended to believe that women who asked for flexible working hours were more likely than men to use the time for personal, rather than professional, reasons and that this form of gender bias is often simply a reflection of antiquated stereotypes about men’s and women’s family roles”. (9) In this respect women are often assumed to have one foot out the door when they ask for more flexible work arrangements, while men are often perceived to have more job commitment. Despite this gender bias “it appears employees are the ones who are really driving employers’ policies and that in particular, young male workers are seeking to spend more time with their families. As a result employers are adapting. In a recent 2014 Catalyst report, they found that nearly four out of five respondents said their companies offered some form of flexible-work arrangements.” (10)<br />
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Maintain a high level of contact by encouraging a two-way flow of communication between management and the distance worker, and the distance worker and their other colleagues. This is especially important if an off-site employee is working on their own.<br />
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Use a combination of face-to-face communication, the telephone and e-mail. Face-to-face is best for key management tasks focused on motivation, team building, performance management and introducing changes in the work or the relationship with the employee. Telephone communications can be effective for planning, reviewing, and strategizing. E-mail is best for quick contact and confirming conversations.<br />
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Informal processes may need to become more formal. For example, comments and ideas made over lunch break or by the water cooler may need to be e-mailed to off-site workers.<br />
Be super-organized and plan well. Reliance on face-to-face meetings often results from disorganization, with managers spending their days reacting to situations and solving problems that would not arise as often as they do if work were well managed.<br />
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Beware that “out of sight” can mean “out of mind”. Take care that off-site workers get access to training and promotion opportunities. Career development is important for all employees no matter where they work.<br />
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Ensure appropriate orientation for staff that work in the office so that they are assured that all employees – regardless of their work location – are equally pulling their weight.<br />
Promote team building between on-site and off-site employees by inviting employees who work at home to come in for a special lunch, training or other activity.<br />
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Ask home-based employees to provide occasional office coverage to keep them in touch with the realities of the workplace. (11)<br />
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Our societies are structured around the concept of “betterment”. Most of us operate with an innate belief “If we make things better now, they will flourish later.” It’s why we have things like schools, libraries, gyms, AA, and most importantly, our community laws.<br />
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But what happens when each of our own individualized ideas of what “better” is, is drastically different? Is better to you, more beautiful, more sustainable, more respectful, or perhaps more holy?<br />
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That’s the question at hand when it comes to such laws as Indiana’s <br />
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SB101 – The Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Indiana’s SB101 – The Religious Freedom Restoration Act, signed into law by Gov. Mike Pence on March 26th, allows individuals and companies to assert that their exercise of religion has been, or is likely to be, substantially burdened as a defense in legal proceedings. This opens the door for business owners to choose who they will or will not accept patronage from based on their religious belief, without fear of being held liable for discrimination.<br />
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What differentiates this law from a similar federal law, The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993, as well as several other state laws, are a few key points:<br />
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You can find a great breakdown of these points from <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/religious-freedom-difference-indianas-law/story?id=30019729">ABCnews.com.</a><br />
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As expected, the situation brought to the forefront, the many times (but not all the time) contentious cross sections of the LGBT and Religious communities. Of primary concern was that now any business, could deny service to an LGBT person, and claim they had the right to do so while not being held liable for discrimination on the basis that they were just upholding the demands of their faith.<br />
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Thrust into the spotlight was a small Indiana pizzeria, who when pressed, claimed they would decline a client if they were asked to cater a same-sex wedding reception citing their Christian beliefs. I will make note that they did mention, that they would serve all customers regardless of orientation, but that they drew their professional line at catering same-sex wedding receptions….with pizzas.<br />
After wide spread media coverage, the pizzeria closed its doors to bide it’s time while the media frenzy passed.<br />
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Now I’m not one to support the demise of anyone or their business, but I must be honest that I had a moment of “Yay! The “good guy” won!”. It restored a bit of my faith in humanity, that can so easily get chipped away when you hear that there are still people in North America, who think the best option is promote segregation.<br />
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However, that’s when the reality of North America’s current state of inclusion started to set in. Within weeks upon closing, a crowdfunding campaign was launched to help support the establishment’s owners, during their “time of need”. Quickly, the campaign raised over $800,000.<br />
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With the money, the pizzeria has been reopened, and the owners have indicated their plans to donate portions of the raised funds to various charities of their choosing. As you can assume, the donated money came from SB101 supporters; those who feel they have the right to not be held liable should they opt to deny service to someone based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.<br />
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Let me just summarize: over $800,000, was crowdfunded in support of legal segregation.<br />
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The backlash from Indiana’s SB 101 was immediately felt by the entire state, when such organizations as <a href="http://www.salesforce.com/">SalesForce</a>, <a href="http://www.angieslist.com/">Angie’s List</a>, a multitude of municipalities, and a growing list of other organizations, opted to cease all interactions with the state, should they continue with SB 101 on the books. While Gov. Mike Pence, consistently claimed the bill was about bringing communities together, Indiana Republicans announced an agreement that will alter Indiana’s controversial Religious Freedom Reformation Act to ensure that it does not discriminate against LGBT people. The proposed change grants new protections for LGBT customers, employees and tenants.<br />
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When we create laws, our sincerest efforts and focus should always be to empower an entire community; while ensuring civility and sustainability. When we create laws that leave open the door for legal segregation, we are purposefully un-leveling the playing field, and intentionally causing civil discourse, with the goal of leaving fellow community members un- or minimally sustainable. Which brings me back to the concept of betterment.<br />
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My betterment is creating a space where all views have the opportunity to be presented, where taking pride in your belief system and living your personal life accordingly is acceptable. My version of betterment, however, does not include creating tools with a direct aim at dividing us. We should have realized a long time ago that we are all in this together. Anytime we stray from that thinking as a global community, we are only making things better on an emotionally local level. And that is how and why people often confuse diversity for division.....<br />
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-38238931088849403332015-04-02T03:09:00.001-07:002015-04-02T03:17:50.107-07:00A Letter to Maya on World Autism Awareness Day <br />
My Darling Maya:<br />
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I wanted to write you about our precious journey, albeit short, as Amah and granddaughter.<br />
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Your Poppa and I were so blessed to be with your parents and your maternal grandmother when you were born on August 27th, seven years ago. We felt such joy at holding you, minutes after your birth, and being with you in those early weeks of your arrival. <br />
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It was at another visit, a couple of years later, that my heart started to hurt.<br />
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You would not give us eye contact, nor let us touch or hold you. You spent hours drawing little circles and building tiny piles of rocks in the courtyard. And so I, as gently as I could, suggested to your mom and dad that maybe something was going on with you, outside of the typical toddler scope.<br />
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Your parents were wonderful, immediately following up with an assessment. A few months later they called me, minutes after receiving the diagnosis: Autism Spectrum Disorder.<br />
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Flash forward to 2012, when your mother and dad decided to move to Toronto. You, your little sister and parents would be living with us until they could get resettled here in Canada. Now Maya, since I had already raised three sons, I figured I knew little children. But, you and I did not connect to my expectations.<br />
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I did not understand your behaviors and did not know how to love you the way you needed me to love and understand you.<br />
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But I learned.<br />
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I learned from your mom and dad who, with their delicious sense of humour and commitment, absorbed as much as knowledge and insight possible about Autism. More to the point, about how autism affected YOU.<br />
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I learned from your little sister, who immediately knew how to love and defend you at a very early age.<br />
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I read and observed and kept trying to connect. Maya, in a fairly short time you started to blossom at a school for kids with autism, who understood your needs and how to help you succeed.<br />
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So here we are, two years later …and you give us big, wonderful kisses and hugs. You come out with the most profound statements, such as the time I walked out of the bathroom, nude after a shower, and you said ‘Hi Amah! Where are your glasses?”<br />
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Or the time you came to visit and, after explaining the points system of behaviour at school, and expressing your disappointment when you did not achieve to your expectations, said “Do you mind giving me some privacy? I need to play.”<br />
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You cut to the chase and we know where we stand with each other.<br />
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Maya, you have such a rich imagination and create complete worlds in your imagination, dancing and playing with a whole cast of imaginative friends in your mind’s eye. You turn on it’s head, the myth that autistic children are only ‘black and white’ in their view of the world and do not have much of an imagination. You are a whiz on the computer and love your iPad –I think technology acts as a bridge enabling your (now) very articulate communication. You are reading at the appropriate level and your teachers comment on how bright and adorable you are.<br />
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Maya my darling, each of us is unique and each of us a little different from each other. I so look forward to seeing you as an adult and contributing your wonderful gifts to society just like the amazing Stephen Spielberg, a famous and beloved movie director. He was diagnosed in his 40’s as having Asperger’s Syndrome; the same kind of wonderful mind-wiring as you.<br />
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More About Autism Awareness Day 2015</h4>
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This April 2nd marks the seventh annual World Autism Awareness Day (WAAD). Originally created by the United Nations General Assembly, the day has become an opportunity to share information and raise awareness about autism, while also highlighting some the accomplishments and challenges faced by those living with the condition, both children and adults. Events are held all over the world every year such as panel discussions with autism experts, politicians and non-governmental organizations, fundraising, conferences as well as workshops.<br />
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Autism was first diagnosed by a psychologist from John Hopkins University by the name of Leo Kanner in 1942. "Decades after that first discovery, its causes are still far from understood. Today research from around the world focuses on a multiple of possible causes such as genetics/heredity, differences in biological brain function (neuropathology), pre-natal factors, possible exposure to environmental toxins, viral infections and immune system deficiencies”.(1) Autism is considered to be a lifelong, neurological developmental disorder, characterized by difficulties in communication and social interactions, as well as repetitive behaviours and sensory sensitivities. In the past two decades autism rates have been on the rise, as the latest research conducted by the Centre for Disease Control estimates, 1 in every 68 children are born with or have been identified as having autism spectrum disorder or ASD. This is up from an estimate of "3 cases in every 10,000 children from studies conducted in the U.S. before 1990".(2) Some argue that this increase could be due to better diagnoses, while others argue that there are other factors involved.<br />
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Autism awareness is extremely important for both children as well as adults living with the condition. For children there is a need for more research and funding for effective evidence-based treatments, better access to that treatment, earlier diagnoses, as well as "essential supports for the families of those children. For adults living with autism there are another set of challenges to overcome. According to the United Nations “it is estimated that 80 percent of autistic adults are currently unemployed, due to a lack of support when it comes to job training as well as pervasive discrimination". With respect to finding employment, "research suggests that employers may in fact be missing out on abilities that people on the autism spectrum have in greater abundance than the “neurotypical" worker. For example people with ASD often have heightened abilities in pattern recognition and logical reasoning, as well as a greater attention to detail. This makes them the ideal candidates for jobs like software testing, data entry, or lab work just to name a few". (3) This shows the importance of removing the stigma attached to ASD, so that we are able to uncover otherwise overlooked abilities, that once fostered, would enable these individuals to lead more complete and fulfilling lives. We can do this by "creating better access to vocational training, better support with regards to job placement and lastly with greater awareness we can begin to eliminate the discrimination that stands in the way of employment opportunities". (4)<br />
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Many times "autism is portrayed as a frightening disease in need of a cure". Limiting ourselves to this perspective can result in a lack of resources when it comes to creating programs that are actually able to improve the everyday lives of autistic peoples.” In addition to this there is a "strong need for members of the ASD community to hold more "senior leadership positions within autistic organizations, in order to truly voice the communities needs in order to bring about more change”. (5)<br />
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As John Elder Robinson, an author and a person living with Autism so eloquently explains:<br />
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“I have come to the emerging realization that autism – as a neurological difference – confers both gift and disability on everyone it touches. It’s the fire the moves humanity forward, while simultaneously being a fire that can burn us individuals as we try to make our way. Many autistic people are aware of this dichotomy. Some of us feel “totally disabled” and others feel “totally gifted.” Most of us – I’d venture to say – feel both ways, at different times, depending on what we’re doing at that particular moment. Consequently, I support the idea of changing society to make it more accommodating for people who are different.”(6)<br />
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This holds a very compelling message for us all. As a society we must do more than merely accommodate those who are different, we must celebrate those differences and realize that in those differences lies great power, great potential, and great opportunity, for a more inclusive world where we are able to see beyond the weakness and instead find the strength.<br />
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1.http://www.autismsocietycanada.ca/asd-research/general<br />
2.http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/news/20021231/cdc-autism-rates-higher-than-thought<br />
3. http://www.un.org/en/events/autismday/<br />
4. http://www.un.org/en/events/autismday/<br />
5. http://www.buzzfeed.com/virginiahughes/autistic-people-spark-twitter-fight-against-autism-speaks<br />
6. http://jerobison.blogspot.ca/2013/11/i-resign-my-roles-at-autism-speaks.html?m=<br />
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-48318025655802322672015-04-02T03:06:00.000-07:002015-04-02T03:06:44.825-07:00Getting to Know You: Rhonda Singer <b>Global Learning is very proud of the company we keep. With that in mind, we are thrilled to introduce our new interview series, “Getting to Know You”, written by the latest edition to our team, our research coordinator and official Global Learning writer, Breanna Rothe.</b><br />
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Getting to Know You: Rhonda Singer by Breanna Rothe<br />
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This month we had the pleasure of speaking with Rhonda Singer, a visionary, an innovator and a truly inspirational woman. Over the course of the interview she shared with us a bit about her unique and extensive background, what really motivated her to dedicate her career and life to becoming a “Cultural Intelligence Champion and what she sees for the future of organizations with regards to diversity, cultural intelligence and unconscious bias.<br />
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Rhonda joked that over the years particularly in her role as a Health and Safety consultant “I worked in every kind of industry in the GTA, from beautiful office towers to the bowels of the earth such as in the sewage plant as well as refineries, and everything in between”. Rhonda began her career as a nurse working with a well-known plastic surgeon in New York City until she became pregnant with her first child, and while longing for her home in Canada, decided to move with her husband back to Toronto to raise a family. Once back in Toronto she began teaching prenatal education as one of the early adaptors to work in the newly formed Toronto Childbirth Education Association. When her three boys grew a little older, she was hired by a health and safety consulting company, Employee Care, and over the course of the ten years she spent with them, she became an equity partner. One of the highlights of her work with Employee Care was establishing a successful training and education program for occupational health nurses that took these nurses from a hospital setting and trained them to become health and safety consultants, which was a very new and different environment!<br />
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Rhonda later moved on to become the Manager of Learning Services for a large international manufacturing company, where “she provided learning strategies and training with regards to product and professional development for corporate employees, as well as Canadian and International dealers.” With Rhonda’s leadership the company was able to “cut their manufacturing lead time down from two years to just six months”. During her time working with health and safety practices and processes Rhonda also had the opportunity to interact directly with many of the employees on the floor, many of whom came from different cultural backgrounds, who shared with her their unique stories and experiences, and gave her a greater appreciation for diversity. Those earlier experiences really became the seeds that went on to blossom into her passion for cultural intelligence and working with global talent.<br />
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Following her work in the manufacturing sector she became the Executive Director at the non-for profit career management organization, Progress Career Planning Institute (PCPI). Rhonda recalls how one of the divisions she managed there consisted of 10,000 unemployed individuals, 80 percent of which came from other countries. And how one day while “having a meeting with her direct report, discussing their metrics and how they were going to help people back into work, “I suddenly had a huge epiphany that is so crystal clear, even to today. The Conference Board of Canada at the time was promoting their employability skills and my huge aha was when I realized that our cliental would not understand what that looked like, sounded like or felt like because they came from other countries.” This moment really launched Rhonda forward to do more research that eventually led her to the term cultural intelligence, which was known at the time to be a concept created by Soon Ang and Lin Van Dyne, and further developed by David Livermore. For Rhonda, the idea of Cultural Intelligence was a much more strategic concept, and a departure from the more prevalent HR term at the time, cultural competency, which she felt was less encompassing.<br />
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Over the course of her 10 years at PCPI, she went on to become President and in her legacy partnered with The Toronto Community News and City of Toronto, to co-create the IEP Conference, which is now regarded “as one of the most innovative and respectful events for Internationally Educated Professional newcomers seeking practical, effective career advice in Canada”. (1) They recently had their twelfth annual conference, consisting of over a thousand Internationally Educated Professionals, coming from five different sectors, with sixty to seventy speakers, which centered on “honoring the courage of these global talents, while at the same time helping them navigate the system”. In this visionary work Rhonda was an integral part of bringing cultural intelligence to the forefront, twelve years ago at that first conference.<br />
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It was through this passion for Cultural Intelligence and Diversity and Inclusion that Rhonda was eventually introduced to Elaine Newman, and her role of V.P., Global Talent for Global Learning. Rhonda explains how David Livermore, who she had known for years, introduced her to Elaine, who like herself had participated in David’s CQ certification course. Rhonda then had the opportunity to hear Elaine speak during a presentation at the CQ forum in May 2014. Rhonda said that she was immediately struck by how “it went from my head and out of Elaine’s mouth. She was talking my talk and walking my talk and I was right there with her the whole time.”<br />
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When asked what motivated Rhonda to join Global Learning, she explained that at this point in her life she really wanted to join a company that epitomized the values that were important to her, that she walks, both personally and professionally. “I wanted an organization that was really embracing diversity, and in particular cultural intelligence. This is what truly drives me. And when it comes to Elaine, not only does she believe in excellence, she is a true innovator. She is a yesterday person. What I mean by that is that when she gets an idea, you know she is going to make it happen right away. Tomorrow is too late. These two factors are what I appreciate.”<br />
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As V.P. of Global Talent Rhonda sees her role as two fold. As a result of her past experiences she feels very strongly about Internationally Educated Professionals or Global Talent, with regards to the courage that these individuals possess, knowing how difficult it is to leave one’s home to move to a new country. Rhonda expressed how these individuals are really “diamonds in disguise because they bring their skills, their culture, and have such a different mindset and experience that we can really learn from. There are so many examples of internationally educated professionals who have been such innovators. She goes on to explain “that we have the ability to be one of the most competitive countries in the world, if we can learn to use our global talent more effectively. “<br />
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Rhonda sees her position at Global Learning as “an opportunity to utilize her expertise with global talent to help organizations cascade an approach using cultural intelligence to help gain a more competitive advantage. She believes that “in order for organizations to truly survive in a global economy, such as we are living in today it is essential that they begin to take a horizontal approach to diversity versus a vertical or silo one to working with their employees, their most valuable asset”. By using what we have learned about diversity, cultural intelligence and unconscious bias thus far “we create the power of possibilities to cross bridges both locally and internationally, in a way that we really haven’t done before”.<br />
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screensaver, taken a few Septembers ago, of my husband and me, surrounded by
our five granddaughters (ranging in age from four months to almost 7 years old
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myself in a kind of almost happy disbelief, for the score has been flipped on its
head in only one generation. My husband and I had three sons, hence, I was
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Now? The men are outnumbered. Today the score
sits at 4 testosterone: 9 estrogen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">I waited many years for the joy of female family
members, never expecting to experience this type of balance. Now that I am a
grandmother, an Amah, I reflect on what the future holds for today's young
women.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Whilst I was waiting (and hoping) for an estrogen
infusion into our family, the world was going through a dramatic change in the
gender ratio balance. This is a significant, virtually hidden and very
worrisome issue. One that is very likely going to have a big impact on our
future world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">While on travel, I picked up the riveting book </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.marahvistendahl.com/unnatural-selection/"><i><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Unnatural Selection by Mara Hvistendadh</span></i></a></span><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">l, </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">which had been shortlisted
for the </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://events.latimes.com/bookprizes/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Los
Angeles Times book prize</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"> and a finalist for the 2012
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What I read about gender imbalance of girls to boys was shocking.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">The link to technology and subsequent use of
ultrasound is alarming, for it means that the skewed sex ration is an outgrowth
of economic progress not backward traditions. Restoring the global balance of
males and females could take until 2050.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Implications are profound. Evidence already shows
that girls throughout the world face higher rates of violence, poverty, and
discrimination. The world’s surplus men means an increase of testosterone and therefore
more violence, with huge rises in the number of kidnappings, prostitution, and
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">By now most of know of <a href="http://www.malala.org/" target="_blank">Malala</a>, the brave young
woman who at 14 years old was shot by the Taliban for standing up and advocating
for the education of girls. Ironically, during that same week back in 2012, October
11 was declared by the United Nations as the world's first </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.un.org/en/events/girlchild/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">International
Day of the Girl Child</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">. Canada has led the international community in
adopting this day, along with the support of </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://plancanada.ca/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Plan Canada</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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that support girls and their basic human rights is key for healthy communities.
History shows that the best way to convince more couples to have girls is to
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">And yet,
sadly, women still need to be distinguished separately in diversity initiatives
along with immigrants, GLBT, and people of color. Each of those segments are
composed of either men OR women and so to be identified separately AND to
naturally fall into any other <i>ism</i> as a
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of that ‘so called’ advocacy, we still read in t<span style="color: #262626;">he
media that salaries are </span>15% to 30% less than men<span style="color: #262626;">,
and </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">women’s representation in Fortune
500 leadership positions has stagnated in recent years. In case you missed it, here is a wonderful </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://differenceatwork.blogspot.com/2015/03/global-learning-infographic_6.html"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">infographic</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> that we developed here at </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.egloballearning.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">Global Learning</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">,
for this year’s </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;">International Women’s Day</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #262626; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Tahoma;"> that looks at the gender wage gap here in Canada and the U.S.A.
We have come so far, yet what is already ten years ago, in </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">2005 Royal Bank of Canada released a report that </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">estimated</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">lost income potential</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">women</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">So what is going on? It is a cultural and
economic issue… not a gender one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Culture can be defined simply as ‘the way we do
things here’. </span><span lang="EN-US"><a href="http://geert-hofstede.com/"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Geert
Hofstede</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">, a well known researcher, defines organization
culture as the</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #1a1a1a; font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Helvetica Neue";"> <i>“collective programming of the mind that distinguishes the members from
others"</i></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">And culture is not easily described. Try articulating
five or six practices in your organization and then ask <i>“why do we do that?”</i>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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question is: what’s invisible in our Canadian culture that does not recognize girls
and women as equal, valuable contributors and leaders in the world of work- in
government and in politics? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a stand and start an inquiry with others about what is going on from a cultural
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it is about your daughters and granddaughters too. It is about creating the
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-37673203003057051072015-03-13T08:51:00.000-07:002015-03-17T06:24:23.935-07:00Inspiring Others to "Walk Their Talk" By Elaine Newman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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times in a person's life, amazing fleeting times, when they know what they
believe in and stand for, has made a difference in shaping the choices of
others. These are the times we wait for
and treasure, when we realize all of our hard work and effort has resonated
with people we love and hope to inspire.
For parents, aunts and uncles and other adult family members, this is
the defining moment with children. Last night, I had such a moment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My daughter,
Alexandra graduated last November from <a href="http://www.mcgill.ca/">McGill
University</a> in Montreal with a Master of Science (MSc) Family Medicine. Her thesis focused on the well sibling
experience of anxiety and depression in young adults. Her brother (my son) Michael has struggled
with severe anxiety his entire life and her personal experience as his sister
influenced her choice of thesis topic.
Much has been studied and written about the impact of mental health
issues on the family unit from the individual's as well as the parent's
perspective, but little to no research has been centered on the well sibling's
experience. Alexandra's thesis utilized
qualitative research to explore the thoughts, feelings and experiences of the
study group of 18 to 25 year old well siblings. This was a true case of lived
experience shaping important choices in our life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Alexandra
was invited by the <a href="http://www.mscjack.org/">Jack.org McGill Students'
Chapter</a> to talk about her thesis and the impact that mental health issues
have on the whole family unit at their <i><a href="http://www.mscjack.org/#!Bridge-the-Gap/cylw/Events2Item0_i1biq32q3_0">Bridge
the Gap</a></i> speaker series this week. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">“<a href="http://www.jack.org/">Jack.org</a> is the only national network of young
leaders transforming the way we think about mental health. With initiatives and programs designed for
young people, by young people, they strive to end the stigma in our generation. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In 2010, <a href="http://www.jack.org/our-history">Jack Windeler</a> was a first year
student at <a href="http://www.queensu.ca/">Queen's University</a> in Kingston,
Ontario, Canada. He was a lively, bright
and funny young man who was also struggling with mental illness. Halfway through the school year, his grades
dropped, he stopped going to class and he became disinterested and disengaged.
Like many young people, Jack couldn't reach out for help. In March 2010, Jack died by suicide. His loss
devastated his family, shocked the Queen's community and started a movement.
Following his death, his parents, Eric Windeler and Sandra Hanington asked
friends and family to make donations to <a href="http://www.kidshelpphone.ca/teens/home/splash.aspx">Kids Help Phone</a>
in Jack's memory. The outpouring of
support created the foundation for <a href="http://www.jack.org/">The Jack
Project</a> which has since grown into a registered Canadian charity which
focuses its efforts on decreasing stigma and improving mental well being on
campuses.” <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Back in September
2014, my son Michael started his freshman year at college and it was no
surprise to us that he chose to attend <a href="http://www.queensu.ca/">Queens
University</a>. What was surprising to
us was that he could go away to college at all.
With his severe anxiety, he had never, and I mean never, been able to
participate in overnight school trips, stay at friend's houses or travel by
himself. With the support of his family,
friends, doctor, and coach who he had worked with since age 8, Michael started
a year-long plan focused on enabling him to attend a university away from
Toronto. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Michael not
only saw this as an opportunity to enable and empower his own life, he developed
into a champion for other people living with mental health disabilities.
Michael quickly became an ally and mentor for younger students in his school
who were experiencing the all too familiar fears and anxiety that have plagued
him for so many years. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With this
new glimpse of discovery into his own purpose, Michael has been exploring
endeavors he couldn’t have conceived possible just a short time ago. He has been invited to and has spoken at
school events, as well as attended outside conferences with his school
counsellor, a personal mentor of his for the past 9 years. Most importantly Michael accomplished this
amazing goal that he had set out for himself, while at the same time leaving
others to feel inspired to do the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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received an unexpected gift, packaged in a brief Facebook comment. As most of us do these days, my daughter
Alexandra took to her Facebook profile, to make mention of her speaking
engagement with the <a href="http://www.mscjack.org/">Jack.org McGill Students'
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>"really
proud of my big sister Alex for speaking about her thesis at McGill today! As
someone who has struggled with anxiety for as long as I can remember, having a
family member focus a thesis on mental health issues and helping others affected
by this is the best thing I could ever ask for! Love You." </i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I told my
children last night, how proud I was of both of them for "walking the
talk" and being role models and advocates for individuals with mental
health issues. Awareness, understanding,
advocacy and empathy are critical to supporting others in every respect. If all of us can focus on inspiring others in
some way, big or small, to "walk their talk", the world will truly
become a better place. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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say, why? I dream things that never were and say, why not?" ~ Robert
Kennedy <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-58054172910773895202015-03-06T12:46:00.001-08:002015-03-06T15:17:20.384-08:00Global Learning Infographic: International Women's Day 2015<div style="text-align: left;">
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<br />Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-20868927250739536062015-03-04T10:49:00.001-08:002015-03-17T06:23:56.253-07:00It’s Time to #MakeItHappen!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">As the world prepares to celebrate <a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/" target="_blank">International Women’s Day on March 8th</a>, I am thinking back on all of the important and influential women in my life. I have been blessed to have had strong, intelligent female role models on my journey; from family to mentors to colleagues and peers. Passionate, resilient, and compassionate are all qualities I have observed in these women and I have tried to emulate them in both my personal and professional life. My company’s creation, focus and direction has been shaped by the beliefs espoused by these women, as well as the struggles and in some cases, injustices experienced by them. Like all of us, I have made choices and life decisions based on the perspectives, beliefs, and stories of others who I have admired on the positive side and chosen to avoid on the other end of the spectrum.</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">All around the world, <a href="http://www.internationalwomensday.com/" target="_blank">International Women’s Day</a> represents an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women while calling for greater equality. The theme of the 2015 global celebration is <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MakeItHappen&src=typd" target="_blank">Make It Happen</a> and brings with it an expectation and conviction that the time of true equality of women in all respects is right now. While International Women’s Day is a celebration of achievements, both past and present, it reminds us that despite advancements, there is still significant work to do and inequalities to address in the world as a whole. It is up to all of us to <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MakeItHappen&src=typd" target="_blank">Make It Happen</a>. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">The issue of wage inequality for women remains at the forefront of focus and discussion in 2015, despite significant and varied strategies to rectify this injustice over many decades. History books document legislative attempts to compel wage equality with such laws as the <a href="http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/epa.cfm" target="_blank">U.S. Equal Pay Act of 1963</a> and <a href="http://www.tbs-sct.gc.ca/lrco-rtor/relations/fs-fr/evolution-eng.asp" target="_blank">Canada’s first pay equity legislation federally enacted in 1977</a>. But as we have come to realize over the years, people’s actions are not always aligned with the required legislation in a country. How do we change beliefs that are deeply rooted in injustice and unconscious bias? My clients are constantly asking this question as it relates to all dimensions of diversity, not just gender equality issues and understand that while most people believe that such actions are not only the “right thing to do”, they are also the “smart thing to do”, that inequalities continue to exist in the world. The most important question is how will we finally bring about this change? And based on all of the research over the past several decades; is this even possible?</span></div>
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<a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zFjq8JMNl3I/VPdRo4bVvfI/AAAAAAAAAgg/AhJvPlFk7g4/s1600/Mrs.%2BNewman%2B2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zFjq8JMNl3I/VPdRo4bVvfI/AAAAAAAAAgg/AhJvPlFk7g4/s1600/Mrs.%2BNewman%2B2.JPG" height="320" width="172" /></a><span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">This leads me back to the women who have shaped my life and their personal experiences with inequality. My mother had a profound influence on who I am; my belief system in “walking the talk” and my passion for pursuing inclusion for all. She was ahead of her time and acted on her strong belief in doing what was right. In 1982, she spearheaded a law suit involving herself and four other women against her employer, the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._W._Woolworth_Company" target="_blank">F.W. Woolworth Company</a> and alleged discrimination on the basis of sex in contravention of the <a href="http://www.ohrc.on.ca/en/ontario-human-rights-code" target="_blank">Ontario Human Rights Code</a>. The complaint stemmed from the retailer’s decision regarding the implementation of an annual wage increase. ‘Wage increases in varying amounts were granted to the staff at the operation at that time with the exception of the five complainants and one other female employee. Instead of receiving wage increases as did their fellow workers, those six individuals had their wages frozen. The complainants allege that Woolworth’s decision to freeze only their wages had the effect of discriminating against them on the basis of their sex because only female employees had their wages frozen”. </span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">It took tremendous courage and conviction for my mother and these women to bring this suit against their employer, especially considering they still went to work every day for almost four years until the case came to trial. I still remember the discussion we had as a family when my mom told us what she wanted to do and asked for our support, which we gave her without hesitation. This was the family we grew up in, one that fought for what was right, even if it had a personal cost associated with it. In the end, the case was not successful. It was proven that the company “had treated the complainants differently from its other employees by denying them a raise in 1982. From a human standpoint, the way the respondent handled the matter at the time created a well justified feeling of unfairness and discrimination in the minds of the complainants. But, the complainants were unable to establish on the evidence that they were denied the raise “because of their sex”. The complainants were only able to show that they were treated differently and that they were all female.”</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;">It is a sad, but true reality that the fight for wage equality for women continues to be necessary in the year 2015. For many companies, the actions taken in perpetuating wage inequality are still the same as my mother experienced in 1982. It is up to all of us, men and women alike, to finally figure out and enable the mechanisms to change this reality. After all, isn’t it about time to just <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MakeItHappen&src=typd" target="_blank">Make It Happen</a>?</span></div>
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<span style="line-height: 18.3999996185303px;"><i> “I did everything that was asked, in fact I did more… All those years, besides watching these young men work there and get raises… I felt, okay, I do my job and I’m getting my raises so I am satisfied. But when this came up, and now you see a person who has less seniority, less responsibility, less skills, less everything… He is getting a raise and I am not. So then I thought there has to be a principle somewhere here.”</i></span></div>
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So it was a natural next step in their journey to want us to introduce their managers to the concept of hidden bias and its relationship to creating inclusive practices in the hiring process. In essence, and in their words, their objective was to equip these key employees with the necessary awareness and skills for “hiring the best”. With that phrase alone, I knew there was more important work to do with this client.<br />
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Over the years, I have seen this statement, “We Hire the Best”, used by many organizations as a way of defining their market leadership and innovation; in marketing materials, in advertising, in annual reports. But I’m left to ask ‘what else would we expect?’ Would any company want to be known for anything else? Would you want to work for or buy from any corporation who sought to “Hire the Mediocre” or alternatively whose tagline was, “We Hire the Worst”?<br />
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But most importantly, what does being the “best” actually mean and according to whom? In order to create inclusive behaviors and put them into practice in an organization’s recruiting and hiring process, we first need to gain an understanding of our personal hidden biases. The best place to start is to acknowledge that we are not alone; we all carry with us, hidden biases.<br />
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“The first step to defeating our hidden biases is to be honest with ourselves about the blind spots we have. Having a bias is only human. The only shame is in making no effort to improve. And human beings are an improving species-we have been improving ourselves in every way over millennia.” Dr. Mahzarin Banaji.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">1</span><br />
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Our hidden biases are part of who we are, and can be both positive and negative. They are formed from our own personal experiences and interactions as well as from ideas and observations that are shared through others. They create an unconscious frame of reference that informs our thoughts, reactions and decisions on a daily basis. As a result, they play an integral role in how we think about a potential candidate; their suitability to a particular position in the company, the merit of their experience and education, depending on the interviewer’s preference for or bias against certain characteristics and dimensions of diversity.<br />
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So how do we mitigate the influence of personal bias in the recruitment and hiring process?<br />
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“It’s on each individual to be vigilant about our blindspots. Not just the ones that close our minds to possibilities, but in equal measure, we must resist the urge to favour those with whom we share a connection –the same school, the same race or culture, the same social circle. We have to challenge ourselves to resist the power of these natural affinities.” Rod Bolger, Senior Vice-President, Finance & Controller, RBC.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2</span><br />
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Awareness of our personal biases is an important first step in acknowledging how these blindspots impact our hiring decisions and a critical component in developing strategies and processes to create inclusive practices and behaviors in our workplaces.<br />
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So rather than having our client focused on “hiring the best”, we are working with them and many other corporations to understand how bias plays a key role in limiting the power of possibilities and the ultimate success of their organization. We use dynamic illustrative examples in our training that have managers actually experience, rather than just hear, how limiting hidden bias can be for their teams and for their company as a whole. We equip them with skills and tools that have real application in their role as managers. And in the process, we shift their focus from “hiring the best” to being the best at hiring.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As those of you who have followed me on social media know, I
strongly believe in “walking the talk”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I have tried to practice the art of inclusion in everything I do, and am
deeply committed to being there for others in any and every way I can. It is
because of these strong convictions, that the start of 2013 has been especially
difficult for me from a personal standpoint.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Much to my deep sorrow, my mother passed on January 1<sup>st</sup>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I had a special bond with her and we were
each other’s companion, confidant and best friend.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was extremely blessed to have her until
the age of 88.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But as much as I will
miss her, it was her time, and I take comfort in the memory of a woman who
lived a complete and joyous life, full with those who loved her.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">However, it is the news that I received the week after the
passing of my mother that truly rocked me to my core.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A very dear friend of mine had taken his own
life and I couldn’t have been more surprised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I had known my friend for almost twenty years, and never once had I ever
seen a sign of despair from him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
weren’t just casual acquaintances, we had a strong connection and so with this
news came a wide range of emotions; emotions that have been associated with
those who are left behind after a person commits suicide.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Initially I was in denial; how could this
have happened without my knowing that he was in need? Then my feelings
progressed to intense grief, mixed with an element of anger that he hadn’t
reached out to me for help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And then
finally I was left with true emptiness mixed with some component of guilt for
not recognizing that I had a special friend who I might have been able to help
if only I had known or looked hard enough to see the signs. All genuine
emotions when we lose someone we love under such circumstances. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One never truly knows what anyone else is feeling, thinking
or going through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our mental health is
personal, and as such, difficult to share with others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It takes deep confidence and trust to let
someone in, to allow them to see us at our rawest.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And for some reason, unknown to so many of
his friends and loved ones, my friend was unable to do that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Outwardly, he appeared genuinely happy,
living the “Canadian Dream” as he liked to say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But inwardly he must have been suffering in silence, attempting to chase
away his fears and doubts all by himself. If only he had decided to “talk about
it”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps things would have been
different. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It is for this very reason that I ask all of you who can, to
support Bell’s Let’s Talk today, February 12th. For every text message sent*,
long distance call made*, (*by a Bell or Bell Aliant customer) tweet using
#BellLetsTalk, or Facebook share of Bell’s Talk image, Bell will donate 5 cents
to help fund mental health initiatives across Canada.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Often invisible, mental illness is one of
the most pervasive health issues in the country with far-reaching consequences
for every Canadian.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One in five people
will experience a form of mental illness at some point and most will be
reluctant to talk to a co-worker, friend, or family member about their
struggle, let alone seek treatment.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>While you may never experience mental illness first-hand, it is likely
that you know someone who will.” I commend Bell and others like them, for their
commitment to making a difference in the lives of others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Personally, I do know a number of people who experience
mental health issues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have trusted
me enough to confide in me and I hope, in some small way, that I have been of
help and comfort to them. For those who have suffered in silence, I ask them to
trust and “talk about it”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It could make
all the difference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“To be trusted is a greater
compliment than to be loved.” – George MacDonald</i></span></div>
Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-39054179046938695822013-02-11T05:18:00.001-08:002013-02-11T05:18:13.499-08:00A Change Will Do You Good<div class="MsoNormal">
<i><span lang="EN-CA">Change is a fascinating beast, whether it
is by choice or by nature. While we may not be able to always predict when
change is coming, navigating a transition is the perfect opportunity to explore
and understand one’s sense of diversity and inclusion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">In the upcoming weeks, you may notice some
changes made to our social media voice. Global Learning is very excited to
introduce you to Breanna Rothe. A young, vibrant mom of two with a background
in sociology and women and gender studies, Bre will be stepping into the role
of “Director, Social Media and Research” for Global Learning.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are thrilled to have Bre joining our
team. </span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">I asked Bre to share with us some of her
thoughts on taking over the reins for Global Learning’s popular Social Media
voice:</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I am honoured and excited to have the
opportunity to join such an innovative team, that has such integrity and
forward thinking. I am eager to find my voice in the social media realm and
look forward to sharing my ideas and passions with the Global Learning
community”.</span></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">Not only will Bre be coordinating our
social media presence, but also keep an eye out for her own Global Learning
perspective to be featured on the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Difference
at Work</span> blog.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">As we launch into a new social media era of
our own, I thought this might be a great opportunity to offer my thanks to all
of our friends, fans, and followers who have connected with us along the way.
These very connections are what have inspired us to operate as a connector of
people. The more we each seek to connect with one another, the more we see
opportunities for unexpected innovation. I will always champion the use of
social media as a tool to that connection and innovation. </span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">In addition to Bre offering her own blogs
through <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Difference at Work</span>, along
with mine, I have invited a number of guest bloggers to join the <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Difference at Work</span> conversation in 2013.
We also encourage you to email us your blogs, thoughts and musings as we look
to be a vehicle for “differences at work” and our community of practice.
Diversity is about community and our community is filled with diversity,
leadership and H.R. thought leaders. Send us your writings and, after review,
we would be honoured to share them with our social media community, as an
official <span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Difference at Work</span> release.</span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">We never could have imagined two years ago
that our back-burner thought to jump into the Twittersphere would ever have led
to the valuable and innovative connections we have made. Every day we are
enlightened by the connections we have made through social media. We are proud
of the opportunities that have been granted to us because we took the time to
engage.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><br />
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<i><span lang="EN-CA">While we plan to maintain the bold and
proud social media stance we have taken the time to build over the last several
years, the changes ahead are absolutely thrilling as we celebrate the “power of
possibilities” at Global Learning. </span></i><br />
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA">“I
think accepting change is quite as important as defending the past.” – Downton
Abbey</span></span></i></div>
Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-55631582334578503232013-01-24T05:08:00.001-08:002013-01-24T05:08:50.376-08:00Commemorating Progression<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">On Monday
January 21<sup>st</sup>, the United States inaugurated Barack Obama for a
second term as president. He is the first person of a racial minority to be
elected into the role’s 225 year old history. That same day also celebrates the
historic life and leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., whose bible was
used to swear in President Obama.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Keeping
in stride with his path of firsts, the president chose to use his </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zncqb-n3zMo"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">speech</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> to solidify his evolved position on dignity and
equality, matching Dr. King’s “</span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smEqnnklfYs"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Dream</span></a><span style="font-size: 12pt;">”. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I
listened to the president’s specific calls for gender equality and LGBT social
justice, an unexpected thought passed like a cloud in my mind’s eye, subtly
nudging me toward a connection: that on Sunday, January the 27<sup>th</sup> –
less than a week from the inauguration – we </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">will mark the UN's International Day of
Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">At first,
I was taken aback by the thought, a bit overwhelmed even. In North America, we have
certainly seen historic discrimination-based violence, laws, and societal
actions in our communities. My view is that the Holocaust stands as one of the
untouchable poles of inhumanities; one of the Earth’s lifetime of lessons.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">That’s
when the connection hit me: that it goes beyond the fact that oppression,
levied in any degree, is still oppression. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We must
constantly acknowledge not only the oppression itself, but just how far we have
come as a global community when it comes to diversity and inclusion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The
social media sector dedicated to diversity will frequently have an article that
will pass by, insinuating that diversity education is a waste of time, and that
it only leads to more discrimination. Yet the examples that are often given to
make the case only point to poor education practices, not to the
ineffectiveness of diversity and inclusion. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">So to
those bloggers and diversity doubters, I ask that you look at this progression
of time between the Holocaust, whose victims we commemorate this Sunday, to the
very fact that we have an inspirational African-American leader in one of the
most powerful global leadership positions using his voice to champion human
rights. Voted in on a day historically set to celebrate one of the greatest
civil rights leaders we have ever known. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I adamantly
stand by the work we do as diversity professionals seeking to create positive
change within our global workforces, and that our work plays a hand in guiding the
progression forward. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As a
general practice, we all must seek employment to sustain our lives. This offers
us new opportunities to meet, work alongside and learn to understand that the
world consists of people built on endless possibilities. </span></span></div>
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more than half of our lives if not more engaged in work. By learning to
communicate and grow comfortable with one another’s existence while working, it
leads to expanded thinking outside of the workplace. It leads us to trust
difference, rather than fear or oppress it. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I leave
you with the thought to constantly examine your progression, your family’s
progression, your community’s progression. Then ask yourself what you are doing
to help guide that progression in a positive direction.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">As I
finished this blog, I popped on the television, and a program my son was watching
came on. To my pleasant surprise, it was a recording of the Metropolitan
Opera’s production of Phillip Glass’ “Satyagraha”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">I’ll let you
go on your own journey of reading up on </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyagraha_%28opera%29">Satyagraha(the opera)</a></span>'s </span>characters, plot, <a href="http://www.metoperafamily.org/metopera/news/features/detail.aspx?customid=18170">staging</a>, and
serendipitous connection to my blog. </span></span><br />
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Mahatma Gandhi</i></span></span></span><br />
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community members of the Jewish faith will celebrate Hanukkah. Also known as
the Festival of Lights, Hanukkah is observed for eight nights and days to
commemorate the rededication of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. At the heart of
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Greek monarch, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, and he had an altar to Zeus placed in
the Temple. This provoked a large-scale revolt, first led by Mattityahu, a
Jewish priest, and completed by his son, Judah. The Temple was liberated and
rededicated, and the festival of Hanukkah was implemented to celebrate this
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the flames burned for eight days, the time needed to prepare a fresh supply of
oil for the menorah. The eight-day festival was created by the Jewish sages to
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lights, and is full of allusions to Biblical literature and interpretation. “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ma’oz Tzur</i>” (known in English as “Rock
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the mighty feats of Israel?”), “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ner Li” </i>(“I
have a Candle”), “<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sevivon, sov, sov, sov</i>”
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directly associated with the holiday, George Frideric Handel wrote <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Judas Maccabaeus</i>, an oratorio based on
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in Hebrew, is a four-sided spinning top that children play with during
Hanukkah. Each side is imprinted with a Hebrew letter. Studying the Torah was
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(potato pancakes), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pontshkes</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">sufganiyot</i> (jam-filled doughnuts), and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">bimuelos</i> (fritters).</span></span></div>
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though grandparents and relatives oftentimes give larger sums. While adding to
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Jewish community views Hanukah with less religious significance to that of Rosh
Hashanah (Jewish New Year), Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement), Sukkot (Feast of
Tabernacles), Passover, and Shavu'ot, it is a time for Jews to recall their
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assistance is needed. Everything from self-help groups to demographical
associations to advocacy organizations; everyone now has a place to turn. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Emotionally
overwhelming experiences have a high potential to leave anyone distracted or
even volatile while at work.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Every
sharp leader has a keen eye on the emotional state of their team members. If
you are ignoring how emotional intelligence as a leader can be the key to
innovation, then you have missed the boat. Hopefully you can row yourself along
to catch up, without damaging too many people along your leadership way.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">In times
of need, varying the ways you choose to ‘be there’ for your team members as a
leader or manager is imperative to the development of your corporate and
organizational culture.</span></span></span></div>
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<a href="http://tanamatales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/helping-hand1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="192" id="il_fi" src="http://tanamatales.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/helping-hand1.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">How do
you care?</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">I
advocate absolutely for creating “in-house” resources for your employees. I
encourage you, however, to also think beyond the scope of your organization for
a variety of reasons, as there are many benefits to encouraging your team to connect
with community-driven initiatives.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">First
and foremost, you are leading your team member to guidance that they require
and that you may not be equipped to give. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">It’s
great to say “Let me know if there is anything I can do.” But it’s even greater
to say “Here is what I can do for you.”</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Not
all employees wish to reach out to “in-house” resource groups. Sharing personal
situations with co-workers or superiors may not be comfortable for everyone.
Even if the fear is unfounded, some won’t reach out to their employer or
employee resource group in a time of need simply because they believe it may
have a negative effect on their job or potential career path. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Offering
your team access to additional services is a way to encourage a person to see
that they have options; that perhaps they aren’t backed into the emotional
corner they are feeling.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Community
outreach is becoming imperative to corporate success. We often view community
outreach as what can I do for the community. Building and curating a running
resource of community groups and initiatives is a great way to collaborate with
the community. It offers more chances for inclusion, as well as creating a
brand advocacy pipeline to a wide range of diverse demographics.</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://neounorthodoxy.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/community.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" id="il_fi" src="http://neounorthodoxy.files.wordpress.com/2012/06/community.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /></a></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> By
connecting your team to the community, you are also connecting the community to
your team. </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Employees
that know you care tell the community that you care; a community which, in
turn, will utilize your services because of your accountability and
credibility.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">If
creating such a resource list for your team interests you, there are some important
things to keep in mind:</span></span></div>
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<ul>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Be sure to make it clear that you are not
endorsing these organizations, only mentioning their existence for your teams to
further research themselves and on their own time.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Avoid including organizations that practice
discrimination.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">If including faith-based organizations,
include groups of all relevant denominations.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Make the team feel welcome to offer
suggestions to add to the list.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"></span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Offer assistance in finding an additional
community group for your team member should they not find one on your list. </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Twitter is a fantastic source to locate
untapped local resources.</span></span></li>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">It may
take some time and effort, but the rewards are vast in understanding the
benefits to all when introducing your team to the broad community resources
available.</span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">“I just might have a problem that you'll
understand. We all need somebody to lean on.” – <u>Lean on Me</u> by Billy Withers</span></i></span></div>
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-993529047382757282012-11-14T02:19:00.004-08:002012-11-14T03:17:13.711-08:00Sense and Sensitivity <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="http://www.employee-motivation-skills.com/images/conflictintheworkplace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="conflict in the workplace" border="0" height="210" src="http://www.employee-motivation-skills.com/images/conflictintheworkplace.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the last month, I have received a multitude of calls from
both existing and potential new clients, asking for Global Learning’s guidance
when it comes to workplace sensitivity. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Workplace sensitivity is the physical, cultural and
emotional awareness of people in a shared workspace. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">From Halloween costumes to poorly communicated frustration
to lifestyle assumptions, here are some examples of the situations I have been
recently hearing about:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Situation 1:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">It’s Halloween, and the
office is filled to the brim with pirates, kittens, and zombies. In walks a manager,
a 50 year old Korean-Canadian woman wearing a Jamaican flag, colored
Rastafarian hat complete with fake dreadlock extensions, baggy jeans, and an
armband with a symbolic marijuana leaf on it. To make matters worse, she also
chooses to carry around a fake “joint” for the day.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The issue</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> (beyond it being blatantly racist): A subordinate
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Situation 2:</b></span></div>
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for over an hour. While describing the situation to a co-worker, the employee
uses the phrase:</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I just want to shoot
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The issue:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> A family member of a nearby co-worker had
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Situation 3:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Oh my god, that is
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The issue:</i></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> The co-worker she was speaking to has very
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until they were 5. </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As to why many organizations feel motivated to deal with
workplace sensitivity, the two reasons we hear most often are: “We don’t want
to get sued.” and “Because it’s the right thing to do.” But as leaders,
workplace sensitivity goes well beyond legal compliance and social justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Workplace sensitivity issues are often deeply rooted in
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shame, but very often, shame is used as retaliation to the person who sincerely
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Shame invokes withdrawal, anger and fear. These emotions lead
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responsibility as leaders to inspire, instill and maintain a constant flow of
innovative productivity within our organization. Shame in any form is lethal to
innovation.</span></div>
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<a href="http://getbetterthemovie.com/files/2012/09/brene_brown.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" id="il_fi" src="http://getbetterthemovie.com/files/2012/09/brene_brown.png" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In case you missed it, we highly recommend watching the<a href="https://twitter.com/TEDNews"> TED talk</a> by <a href="https://twitter.com/BreneBrown">@BreneBrown</a> on Shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">You can watch it here: <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html">http://www.ted.com/talks/brene_brown_listening_to_shame.html</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Workplace sensitivity issues frequently arise from what many
perceive as harmlessly intended humour. Humour in the workplace can be a
wonderful thing: it can attract business, enhance the relationship with clients,
and can even be a clear sign of a great leader. Truly humourous people can be
quick problem-solvers, all while maintaining a team’s energy level. But there
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">As a leader, ask yourself these two questions in regard to
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How are you as an<a href="http://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=8136332818913830623" name="_GoBack"></a> organizational leader
educating your team in regard to understanding workplace sensibility?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How do you as an organizational leader handle the situation
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Your response to these sensitive, yet real life situations
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Rudeness is the weak man’s
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Global Learning, Group of Companieshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01239211303549613630noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8136332818913830623.post-62209587247769805912012-10-31T02:43:00.000-07:002012-10-31T02:49:58.873-07:00Does Everyone Deserve a Seat at the Table?<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<a href="http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/71/18588a5f927b4e62947e3f1507d09b0b/l.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" id="il_fi" src="http://a4.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/71/18588a5f927b4e62947e3f1507d09b0b/l.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">I strongly believe that everyone should be offered the opportunity to
gain a seat at the proverbial “table”. Once seated, however, your behaviour
dictates your worth to societal and organizational development. Should your
behaviour become an intentional blockade to betterment, I firmly believe that
your seat should be removed, and you should be directed to the nearest
exit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">As I have mentioned previously, we are very proud of our social media
voice. We utilize our space to curate quality materials from around the globe
that can all be tied back to impactful diversity, leadership, and, in turn,
human resource content. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">There is a great responsibility that comes with being a media source
and we have a firm understanding and appreciation of that responsibility,
specifically when it comes to diversity and inclusion. Behind each piece we
choose to post, we believe there is useful take-away information that will help
to better yourself, your work-life and your place of business.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We uphold this responsibility with an empathetic mindset and
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information we are offering and the brand names / thought-leaders we are promoting
for further insights. The power of social media is so great, that even the mere
mention of a name in a negative light still garners valuable attention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Some certainly believe, “There is no such
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<a href="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-deadline/2010/03/24/coulterx-large.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" id="il_fi" src="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/on-deadline/2010/03/24/coulterx-large.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="259" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">No stranger to grabbing the headlines with aggressive discriminatory
language, American </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">lawyer, conservative social and political commentator,
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media several times in the last month or so. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Several weeks ago, we celebrated “National Coming Out Day”, a day
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Coulter chose to respond to National Coming Out by tweeting:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">"Last
Thursday was national 'coming out' day. This Monday is national 'disown your
son' day."</span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Coulter chose to tweet the following about President Obama:</span></span></div>
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<a href="http://specialolympicsblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wpid-hn2l5912-jpg.jpeg?w=200&h=300" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="image" border="0" height="300" src="http://specialolympicsblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/wpid-hn2l5912-jpg.jpeg?w=200&h=300" title="hn2l5912.jpg.jpeg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">She chose to counter
the beautiful letter written to her by </span><a href="http://specialolympicsblog.wordpress.com/2012/10/23/an-open-letter-to-ann-coulter/"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;">Special Olympian John Franklin Stephens</span></a><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-CA;"> – one that politely, intelligibly, and
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syndrome. I was referring to the president of the United States,” said Coulter,
adding that she views “retard” as a synonym for loser. “Do you call people with
mental disabilities retards because I don’t. I think that’s a nasty thing to
do.” – </span></i><a href="http://www.disabilityscoop.com/2012/10/29/ann-coulter-not-sorry/16757/"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Disability Scoop</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;"></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">When it
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Ms. Coulter
chooses to be emotionally violent because she and her team have a very specific
understanding of the outcomes that her words attract. Media outlets, large or
small, will print her name, which leads to her personal financial gain, and an
attraction of like-minded people to her preferred political party.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Popular
television programs such as “The View” and “Piers Morgan Tonight” invited Ms.
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the diversity conversation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They choose
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">As a
diversity professional, I firmly believe in hearing all sides of the story,
inside and out –even if that means enduring “opinions” with which I disagree.
However, by using the type of language she does and by showcasing her lack of
empathy or public class, Ms. Coulter doesn’t offer an opinion, only infliction.
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Seeking to
outrage people by utilizing discrimination does nothing but attract attention. When
there is no substance to what you are saying, you are now officially a nuisance
to society. Additionally, justifying your intentional verbal violence by
calling it “free speech” is dismissive and offensive to the true argument
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">Effective points
can be made without defaming another person. There is so much brilliance to be
shared and gained across political lines, cultures, and beliefs. People such as
Ms. Coulter are the true barricades to that un-tapped and sorely-needed
innovation. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri;">We can certainly
be bold with what we have to say. We can even be “shocking”. But to be bold and
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demographics. Each of us is a vast, never-ending source of subcategories, which
equate to our individual identity. We must consistently focus on that identity
to find emotional understanding and development. That individual identity is
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I watched an episode of <a href="https://twitter.com/MTV_JerseyShore">MTV’s “Jersey Shore”</a>. For one full
hour, I had a glimpse into the reality-TV lives of Snooki, J- Wow, DJ Pauly D.,
Vinny, Ronnie, Sammy “Sweetheart”, Deena, and of course Mike “the Situation”. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There, I said it. I actually struggled to write that. I
attempted to come up with several clever ways of bypassing the odd shame I was
feeling in the admission; so I opted to just dive right in. </span></div>
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and all had left for the evening, my teenage son popped on the television in
the midst of cleaning up. Sifting through the PVR (DVR for you U.S. folks), he
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and enough sexuality to make even Kinsey flinch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">My first reaction was to tell my son to turn the show off;
but then, out of nowhere, he began to describe to me some of the interesting
changes the cast members have been going through. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">He told me in his own words about how Sam and Ronny, after
years of volatile behaviour, are actively trying to maintain a calm, healthy
relationship based on communication. He mentioned how D.J. Pauly D. –featured
on his own MTV show “The Pauly D Project” – is now a world famous club D.J.;
his brand is built on dedication to skill development, reliability, team
building and positive attitude. Vinny, after revealing last season his struggle
with anxiety, has now become a mental health and equality advocate.</span></div>
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<a href="http://www.ahundredmonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/jersey-shore-situation.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" id="il_fi" src="http://www.ahundredmonkeys.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/jersey-shore-situation.jpg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Then there are the two heavy-hitter topics brought to the
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi is now sober, engaged, and pregnant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;"><span style="-moz-font-feature-settings: normal; -moz-font-language-override: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-size: 7pt; font-stretch: normal; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;"></span></span>Mike, “the Situation” sought addiction
treatment, and is now allowing us to watch his resurgence into his life while
maintaining his sobriety. </span></li>
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to live separately from her housemates and “the Situation” reaching out to his
housemates to apologize for his past behaviour, MTV is going out of their way
to showcase some of the life altering, healthy choices the cast members are now
making. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">While my son was describing to me each of these cast members’
journey from day one until now, he was conveying to me – without realizing it –
that he knows change can be made. He knows that we can not only choose to
remove ourselves from negative situations, but that we can avoid them
altogether. He knows that we can choose to take responsibility for our actions,
and actively seek to heal the emotional damage our poor behaviour can cause. He
knows that yes, while we in most cases operate within group settings, we each
have individual journeys and needs. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">These lessons, despite their unexpected origins, are
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The cast of “Jersey Shore”, believe it or not, represents
how diversity permeates all demographics. I am by no means advocating for you
to bust out a recording of the latest “Jersey Shore” episode in your next
diversity training session; but here is my thinking:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">We have eight people, each of whom look similar to one
another, grew up in similar areas, and share a culture that some might not
believe is real, until you actually visit the Jersey shore for yourself. But
each of these eight people carries a private story. They each walked a journey
that led them to my television set, and that led my son to some interesting and
important examples of life’s trials and tribulations. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">“They always say time changes things, but you
actually have to change them yourself.” <br />
- Andy Warhol </span></i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Unless you are living with a disability that dictates
otherwise, we – as the human race – choose our words. Sometimes we choose them
too quickly, and we haven’t thought about the broader impact they may carry.
Sometimes we choose words specifically as a tool to hit a direct emotional
target. Regardless of the intention (or lack thereof), at the most
microscopic level, our brains and hearts have decided to say the things we do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Casual use of any discriminatory language, even if not
directly being used to dominate or demean another person, can still suggest
that the behaviour of using the language is permissible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This week<i> <a href="http://jezebel.com/5948276/the-best-thing-youll-see-all-day-local-news-anchor-has-on%20air-message-for-man-who-called-her-fat">Jezebel</a>
</i>released a fantastic article and video from Wisconsin
news anchor <i><a href="https://twitter.com/news8jennifer">Jennifer Livingston</a>,</i>
responding to a viewer email which stated:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“It's unusual that I
see your morning show, but I did so for a very short time today. I was
surprised indeed to witness that your physical condition hasn't improved for
many years. Surely you don't consider yourself a suitable example for this
community's young people, girls in particular. Obesity is one of the worst
choices a person can make and one of the most dangerous habits to maintain. I
leave you this note hoping that you'll reconsider your responsibility as a
local public personality to present and promote a healthy lifestyle.”</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Here is Ms. Livingston’s brilliant response:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">In the video Ms. Livingston states:<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“Now I am a grown
woman, and luckily for me, I have a very thick skin — literally, as that email
pointed out, and otherwise. That man's words mean nothing to me. But what
really angers me about this is there are children who don't know better… The
internet has become a weapon. Our schools have become a battleground. And this
behaviour is </i><i><span style="font-style: normal;">learned</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">. It is passed
down from people like the man who wrote me that email. If you are at home, and
you are talking about the fat newslady, guess what? Your children are probably
going to go to school and call someone fat. We need to teach our kids how to be
kind, not critical, and we need to do that by example.”</i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Children have to decipher what’s appropriate or not by
navigating the influences of their parents/family, peers, educators, the media
and society at large. That’s no easy task, for an extremely impressionable
mind. Are you being mindful of the permissions you are subtly granting the
children around you? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">October marks <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Bullying_Prevention_Month">National Bullying Prevention Month</a></i>. There are
a multitude of organizations, such as <i><a href="https://twitter.com/glsen">GLSEN</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/glaad">GLAAD</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/TrevorProject">The Trevor Project</a>, </i>the <i><a href="https://twitter.com/BTWFoundation">Born This Way Foundation</a>,</i> who are spending millions of dollars to actively dismantle the
bullying culture.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Bullies can be easily identified: they are those that choose
language specifically to harm. However, what about those who casually use
discriminatory language with no real hurtful intentions?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I was left a bit dismayed when reading a recent article
released from GOOD magazine about the meaning and variety of uses for the word
“gay”. When I first came across the article, my initial thought was that I was
going to find a piece dedicated to derailing the casual use of the phrase
“that’s so gay.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">To my unwanted surprise, the writer suggested the issues
that arise from using the term “gay” in a negative connotation, would dissipate
should we as a society accept the next shift in language when it comes to the
definition of the word. That the casual use of the phrase “that’s so gay” is really
just to point out that something is of off-kilter in a negative way, having
nothing to do with sexual orientation. The writer cautions that perhaps, just
perhaps, gay people are being a touch oversensitive. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It always amazes me when people question “political
correctness”. What many deem as “political correctness”, I simply view as very
basic respect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">I have a rather simple theory: if I know that there is
someone who validly would rather I not use certain terminology as it depicts
their demographic in an inferior light, regardless of my intention, I’m not
going to use it. Not just “do my best” to remember; I’m going to actively
remove the terminology from my lexicon. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">De-contextualization is complicated. If this is your goal in
using derogatory terminology than what else are you doing to promote your
cause? Are you creating petitions? Are you starting a real social movement?
Just tossing in the phrase “that’s so gay” in casual conversation is nothing
short of lazy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It’s your right to feel, think and speak any way you choose.
But allowing yourself to be verbally harmful intentionally is criminal.
Allowing yourself to be unintentionally harmful is truculent.<span class="huge"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span class="huge"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“The
limits of my language means the limits of my world.</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“ – Ludwig Wittegenstein<br />
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<a href="http://worldofwonder.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/7302769.bin_.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" id="il_fi" src="http://worldofwonder.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/7302769.bin_.jpeg" style="padding-bottom: 8px; padding-right: 8px; padding-top: 8px;" width="180" /></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><i><b>FYI:</b> <a href="http://nohomophobes.com/">NoHomophobes.com</a> </i>has launched a running ticker of twitter
updates that use the following terms. Between July 5th, 2012 and October 2nd, 2012:</span> </div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
word “Faggot” had been tweeted 2,690,629 times.</span></li>
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phrase “So Gay” had been tweeted 960,073 times.</span></li>
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phrase “No homo” had been tweeted 902,891 times.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue",Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The
term “Dyke” had been tweeted 371,165.</span> </li>
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