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Inclusion, Equity & Belonging
15 Ideas for Embracing Diversity in Your Team
Apply these ideas to embrace the diversity in your team!
Onboarding Traps and Success Factors
Use these suggestions to ensure your onboarding succeeds.
Allyship Behavior Checklist
Employees, especially those in marginalized groups, need allies who support and advocate for them. This checklist offers specific actions, behaviors, and practices that leaders take to support, amplify, and advocate for others.
Courage to A.C.T. Steps
Employees agree that giving constructive feedback is difficult. The difficulty is compounded when dealing with sensitive topics, microaggressions or inappropriate behavior. A.C.T. provides a three-step process to address bad behavior effectively.
Baker’s Dozen Suggestions for Bridging Generational Gaps
Whether you have Millennials or Boomers on your team, these suggestions will help you bridge the generational gap.
How to Support Employees with Autism
To create an inclusive workplace where all employees feel that they belong, it is important to gain insight into what neurodiversity is and how neurodiverse employees can be most effective.
5 Signs that You Might Need a Diversity & Inclusion Strategy
While business leaders understand the advantages of having a diverse workforce, they struggle with how to engage the differences most effectively. Take this quiz to determine the degree of inclusive alignment in your organization.
How to Create a Culture of Belonging Checklist
Companies who build cultures of supportive and inclusive relationships have increased job satisfaction, creativity, competence, job performance and retention. Here are 20 suggestions to help you build a culture of belonging.
Managing Polarities
Gain insight into the cultural polarities many organizations face.
10 Questions to Help See the World with a 30,000-Foot Perspective
These questions will help you "Zoom Out" to consider differing perspectives and points of view.
Diverse Employee Sponsor Best Practices Checklist
Many leaders are unsure about what sponsorship is and is not. Consider activities to engage in as sponsor with and apply actions in this list to enhance and broaden your sponsorship support.
Military Veteran Awareness: Best Practices for Corporate Recruiters, Managers and Leaders
Many corporate leaders believe they understand the advantages, challenges and risks of hiring veterans. Few actually do. Explore our “Best Practices” and strategies for how to onboard and retain military veterans.
Listening & Empathy
Build a Team Listening Culture: Signs of Silence
Test your listening and feedback culture and identify patterns.
Empathy Responses
Get ideas for appropriate empathic responses and identify which sound natural for you.
Listening Leader Behaviors
Get tips to improve your listening skills over the next six months.
Build and Improve Empathy Checklist
Identify where you need to improve your empathy skills and which behaviors you can work on avoiding.
LISTEN to Improve Leadership Effectiveness
One of the most important ways to build trust and credibility is to listen to and act on what employees have to say. Apply the following L.I.S.T.E.N. suggestions today.
Communication & Feedback
Recognize Employees for What is Most Important to Them
Creating a great place to work where employees feel valued and that they belong take effort. This checklist provides ideas to recognize your employees’ contributions with specific feedback statements.
Are You Working without a Net?
A big part of the secret to success for the most accomplished people and leaders is their ability to develop strong professional and social networks. Networking is the practice of expanding your sphere of influence while serving as a resource to others.
Tips for Asking Effective Questions
Explore our tips for asking open-ended, reflective, and directive questions to improve communication with your team members.
5 Communication Questions All Leaders Should Ask
Even with the cost of poor communication well-documented, many leaders fail to make time to communicate effectively. Develop your own intentional communication practices. As a start, ask yourself these five questions.
Leadership & Management
Influence as a Leadership Superpower
Effective influence is about inspiring others to willingly support your vision and goals. This article provides five actions to improve your ability to influence team members, business partners, suppliers and customers.
Toxic Leadership Behavior Checklist
If someone consistently displays 5 or more of these behaviors, they may be doing irrefutable harm to employees in the workplace.
Is This Leader Ready for Development? Checklist
Promoting the right person to a leadership position is crucial to the organization. This checklist can help you determine a potential leader's readiness for coaching and development.
10 Success Tips for Changing Habits
Try these tips for creating and reinforcing new habits.
Executive and Leadership Onboarding Checklist
To maximize your recruiting investment, it is critical to consider a customized onboarding approach for high potential candidates. This checklist can help with the careful planning and preparation that expedites assimilation, retention and success.
Tips for Courageous Leaders
As a courageous leader, remember that failure is not always bad or good. As you develop courage in yourself and others, ask yourself these questions.
Are You a Learning Leader? Checklist
Learning leaders invest in their futures by increasing knowledge, rejecting the status quo, challenging their comfort zones, and embracing challenging learning experiences.
Face Uncertainty Through Dialogue
Facing uncertain futures themselves, many leaders find it challenging to coach, mentor and empower others during times of change. This guide can help you determine what to say and how to say it in times of uncertainty.
Managing Complex Change
These five items are needed to achieve desired change. When all are in place, successful change occurs. However, notice how the results change when any one of the elements is missing.
Leadership and Random Acts of Kindness
Offer Random Acts of Kindness in unexpected ways!
7 Behaviors of Servant Leaders Checklist
Are you a Servant Leader who models the behavior you want to see in others?
Stress & Burnout
Ideas for Leaders to Reduce Office Stress
Lead by example (and encourage the following behaviors) to help reduce office stress.
Are You Facing Burnout? Checklist
Use this checklist to help you grow your capacities to understand and avoid burnout.
Are You a Technology Addict?
How much does technology dictate your life? Be intentional about "unplugging" for periods of time each day.
Five Positive Things Exercise
This exercise encourages you to think in new ways, reducing stress and anxiety.
Staying Connected with Your Employees
These suggestions will help you stay connected with your employees and reduce stress levels and chances of burnout.
Replenish Listening Energy Checklist
With greater self-awareness, leaders can learn how to build or replenish energy that has been drained throughout the day. Download for suggestions and techniques to help regain the ability to listen effectively and efficiently.
3 Keys to Making the Most of Paid Time Off
How do you view time off of work? How are you modeling it to your employees?
Conflict
14 Suggestions to Reduce Negative Conflict and Increase Positive Conflict Outcomes
These suggestions offer ways to reduce conflict and bring out the best in people.
Team Development
Virtual Conference Call "Best Practices" Checklist
Globalization, technological advances, telecommuting and outsourcing have all created a workplace where leaders seldom see the individuals they lead. This checklist can help you lead more effectively before, during and after conference calls.
Team Norms Activity
Our research indicates that every organization has its own distinctive normative patterns. In fact, normative profiles are likened to a fingerprint. No two are exactly alike. This activity can help you and your team arrive at a description and understanding of the norms in your organization.
Smart Team Checklist
How "smart" is your team? In what areas does it need improvement and growth?
Address Loneliness in Remote Work Checklist
Create a more connected, supportive and engaging work environment that helps mitigate feelings of loneliness among your remote and hybrid teams.
Build Trust & Collaboration
Five Stories Every Leader Needs to Know How to Tell
Stories help build trust in leaders and their organizations. When a story is effective and compelling, listeners conclude they can trust the storyteller and the message they offer.
Collaboration Checklist
This checklist will help you determine whether or not a specific partnership has a good chance to develop trust and collaboration.
Characteristics of Trusted Advisors
Are you a trusted advisor?
Trust Deposit Checklist
Employee trust in corporation leadership is at an all time low. Use this checklist to see if you are demonstrating behaviors and actions that build trust. If not, consider what you want to do differently.
Decision Making
Force-Fitting
This useful problem-solving and decision-making technique draws from two fundamental design principles derived from observing nature:
harmony and contrast.
When to Let an Employee Go
These questions will help you determine if it is time for an employee to go.
Be Inspired!
Successful Leaders Who Have Experienced Rejection and Defeat
Check out this list of leaders who overcame the odds and transcended adversity!
Living on Purpose
Jumpstart your team's purpose-driven focus!
Creativity Inventory
Discover how creative you are (and where that creatively lies)!
Volunteer Passion Inventory
This inventory will help you identify the most rewarding nonprofit volunteer opportunity.
Seeking Unique Situations and Environments to Stimulate New Ways of Thinking
Changing our environment, increasing our awareness and noticing the work around us can stimulate more creative thinking.
