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Embracing Interculturalism: How to Build Skills for Cross-Cultural Teamwork

In our ever-connected global landscape, the ability to work effectively with individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds has become a key differentiator of professionalism and competence. To thrive in cross-cultural environments, organizations must prioritize the development of skills that enhance communication, collaboration, and understanding. This blog post explores methods for building these skills and empowering your…

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Preventing Workplace Harassment in 2023

The Changing Nature of Harassment Harassment claims look very different than they did five (5) years ago. Harassment in 2023 will primarily rely on context and the nuances of a situation to understand how the person complaining perceives the workplace situation based on their protected characteristics. Harassment these days is less about blatant overtures or…

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Why Celebrating Memorial Day Fosters DEI

Why Memorial Day is Celebrated Memorial Day began in 1868 as a tradition to honor the lives lost during the Civil War. This was the first war in US history that saw so many deaths, resulting in the need for the first national cemeteries. People of the community started to decorate the fallen soldier’s graves…

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A Simple New Trend for Workplace Respect

Amongst Emtrain clients, there’s a fan club for the Workplace Color Spectrum®.  In my first meeting with one learning & development leader, I asked if he was familiar with the Workplace Color Spectrum®. A second later he held up our infographic that he had printed and laminated. (You’re awesome, Matt!) We’re often told stories about…

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Empower Your Employees to Be an Upstander

“Go back to where you came from!” “You don’t belong here!” “Didn’t the virus start in China?” “Why Black Lives Matter? All Lives Matter, too” Some of us may have heard these words in person, read them online, watched clips on social media, or have had these words said to us. It’s triggering. The 2020…

Addressing Political Discussions at Work

We are living in unprecedented times. Politics consumes discourse, and polarization causes rifts in families and friendships. While political discussions in the workplace aren’t necessarily inappropriate, such conversations can interfere with work relationships, productivity, reputation/brand of the company, morale, and possibly even the civil rights of employees. It can also alienate customers or clients. So…

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What Does Respect for Diversity in the Workplace Mean?

In 2020, most of us will be working alongside people from different generations and different cultural backgrounds, and when it comes to creating a respectful culture, the real emerging challenge is reaching a shared understanding of what “respect” means to all of us. Our perspectives flow from our life experiences and when our life experiences…