Activism

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How can you train on equity at work?

The CEO of SHRM, Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, says that "DE&I programs, in their current form, simply aren't working."

His - or SHRM's - answer to that is to remove Equity from the DE&I acronym, and focus on I&D - Inclusion & Diversity.

That's one approach - another would have been to provide tools to emphasize Equity at work, and make it practical.

I put this chart together in 4 and a half minutes. If SHRM had instead asked its members for their ideas (and paid them for them, instead of paying their internal team/consultants to change up an acronym), I have no doubt they could have created resources to share among their members that would have had a much better response, and actual positive actions in the workplace.

Hear more of our thoughts on the "HR Besties" podcast tomorrow with Jamie Jackson and Leigh Elena Henderson.

#shrm #dei #equity

“If you can only be tall because somebody is on their knees, then you have a serious problem. And my feeling is: White people have a very, very serious problem, and they should start thinking about what they can do about it. Take me out of it.”

Identify your privilege - we all ahve some level of it. Where do we have access and ease that give us power?

Hear me. It’s not a “Pipeline Problem” it’s an empathy problem.

Extend your privilege to interrupt the impact.

I got TOTALLY called out for bad behavior today 😬…. by my OWN coach!

💡 “Have you noticed,” she asked me after years and years of working together, “that everytime you share your best ideas you begin with: this might sound weird, but…”?

🙏 Um, I DID NOT notice that. Even in a relationship I feel safe in, I was STILL feeling vulnerable about my nascent, creative ideas and hedging accordingly.

🙌 Grateful that she challenged me, asking: “how about instead of this might sound ‘weird’ we replace ‘weird’ with magnificently unique?

❤️ Here’s a reminder that we are ALL full of magnificently unique ideas… and guilty of hedging them!


I’m sharing this excerpt of “16 Things I Forbid You To Say At Work” from my book as a reminder for us all: what would you add?

#womeninleadership #coaching #womensupportingwomen