Ethical Issues in the Workplace : How to Educate Your Employees
Ethical issues in the workplace have made more headlines in the past couple of years as a result of the #MeToo movement, business scandals, and code of conduct violations. While...
How an Ethical Workplace Impacts Your Bottom Line
Workplace ethics directly contributes to a business' success. Making the right business decisions, happier and motivated employees, and a boost in morale will positively impact a company's success. Starting from...
Diversity is Tired: Let’s Call It Humanizing Instead
I despise the word diversity. Every time I hear it used, I cringe and pause for impact. It usually follows with some form of "woke" PR jargon about how we’ve...
Ethical Workplace Culture :
6 Simple Ways to Create and Maintain
Imagine coming into work every day at a workplace that encourages or tolerates misconduct and brilliant jerks as long as they get the job done. Sure, there are those short-term...
New York Expands Harassment & Discrimination Laws
Less than one year after sexual harassment training became mandatory under New York State and New York City law, the state legislature has enacted extensive reforms to anti-discrimination laws. Here’s...
Diagnose Workplace Harassment Before It Happens
Relying on employee complaints, the number of policy claims, and conducting investigative procedures are archaic methods to assess workplace harassment and bias. A reactive strategy will not only hurt your...
How to Cultivate a Trans-Inclusive Workplace
June is Pride month! Let's talk about trans visibility in the workforce. In our last post we shared a Gender-Neutral Language Cheat Sheet, and while obliterating the use of dated,...
Gender Inclusiveness and Workplace Communications
Companies are increasingly investing in diversity and inclusion programs, racing to overhaul decades of systemic inequalities and recruit and retain top talent, regardless of background. One component of a company’s...
How Good Managers Develop Successful Employees
When it comes to employee performance, HR pros often lose sight of a critical variable—the employee-manager relationship. When these relationships are running smoothly, and everyone is meeting their business goals,...
Why Your Employer Brand Should Be A Big Turnoff
Should your employer brand—the way that prospective and current employees view you as an employer—be a turnoff for candidates? Absolutely. In today’s incredibly competitive market for talent, making sure you...
The Wrongheadedness of Compliance Training
Collectively, there are ~60M people working in US companies with 500 or more people. Based on the 2018 ATD State of the Industry report, those companies spend $137 per employee...
3 Steps to Build a Culture of Trust
Most talent professionals will tell you that we’re in the middle of a talent shortage and it’s a growing challenge to recruit and retain a high performing workforce. The Bureau...
CA and NY Sexual Harassment Mandates Frequently Asked Questions
Employers in California and New York must now meet new sexual harassment training requirements to provide to all of their employees. Do you know how your company plans to comply?...
How to Build a Better Performance Improvement Plan (PIP) Process
Companies that make bad hires pay the price. Placing someone in a role they’re not fit for can cost your company hundreds of thousands of dollars, stemming from costs of...
Watermark’s Conference Shows How We Can Honor International Women’s Day Every Day
Last month, I had the pleasure of attending the fifth annual Watermark Conference for Women in the Silicon Valley. For those of you who aren’t familiar with the organization, Watermark’s...
9 Ways To Use California’s Gender Identity Regulations to Make Your Workplace More Inclusive
I served on California’s Fair Employment and Housing Council (previously the Fair Employment and Housing Commission) for more than seven years (appointed first by Gov. Schwarzenegger and later by Gov....
5 Ways MeToo Will Continue to Impact Global Companies in 2019
During 2018 we saw the ongoing impact of the #MeToo movement on harassment law and practice around the world. As we enter 2019, this sharp global focus on combating harassment...
Why Your Outdated Employee Relations Strategies Pose a Big Risk in 2019
In 2019, HR professionals will experience a new paradigm in employee relations and the strategies they’ve used for the last 25 years will no longer be effective; old strategies will...
‘Tis the Season for Workplace Drama...But It Doesn’t Have to Be!
December brings with it a big challenge for company leaders: how to balance spreading holiday cheer with minimizing the corporate risk that can be associated with the company holiday party....
Who Will Manage Sexual Harassment Risk in 2019—HR or Business Compliance?
About a month ago, I participated in a conference for ethics and compliance professionals— people who manage enterprise risk stemming from antitrust, intellectual property, privacy, information security, and other business...
Isn’t Training Just Teaching Employees How to Sue Me?
When I first began advocating for training all employees on sexual harassment prevention, a few companies agreed that this would be an effective way to address workplace harassment. But most...