Diversity/Inclusion

I’m Counted, but Am I Included?

I’ve attached this article (See link below) because it shares information about inclusive practices of major corporations; however, the picture is incomplete as the emphasis is on numbers and percentages. So, I wonder what the “community climate” i.e., the sense of belongingness, is like within the work spaces.

Best Practices, for me, in just another word for Politically Correct. Because the bottom-line is that the bottom-line is all that really matters in business. I know, you probably are saying that people don’t really care about how you feel about them or what you think about them as long as you give them more privileges and equal opportunities and to excel in the work place.

I wonder, though, if you talked to the non-dominant members within the corporate environment if they are authentically experiencing the inclusion that these numbers—sort of–project.

My point is that yes folk want to be included, but they also want to belong. Belongingness affects how well you thrive in the work place, any space. I suspect that work productivity—the bottom-line–may be greatly enhanced if the corporate environments not only looked diverse but felt inclusive.

Why Top 50 Companies Beat Fortune 500 in Diversity Recruiting, Promotions

Just Thinking

The Bully Within

If you give it just a bit more thought, you’d agree with me that the reason why people and things control your life–bullying you around–got your scared S—less and useless– is because you LET THEM! “How so?” you ask. There is a bully in you that has convinced you that you need external approval to be you; that you don’t have what it takes to be yourself—to just do you. So you spend your life living in fear: Fear of failure, of success, of underachieving, of obscurity, of insignificance. If it were not for the bully inside you the forces on the outside would be powerless. Your problem, then, is that you need to stand up to yourself!

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It Ain’t About You

 

Why are we so quick to take offense when someone, maybe a friend or even a stranger, does something, anything, and we take it personally? We are forever misinterpreting others’  behavior because for some reason we think people are not busy enough with their own “stuff” that they have time and energy to think about us. Wrong! Because most of the time, usually, whatever it is, it ain’t even about you.