My good friend Mike Klein and his partners are running an exciting essay contest for internal communicators called The Gorilla Games. Quirky name! Pick one of the 5 internal communication challenges and submit your entry online. You stand a chance to win a grand prize! What’s more – your idea will get the support it […]
Month: November 2018
Inclusion is a leadership prerogative; not a random act of kindness
In my earlier post, I shared a scenario of an organization attempting to get started on inclusion and diversity. Received some insightful comments from readers on what they perceived the issues on hand. Also, appropriate actions that could help James (the CEO) introduce practices related to diversity & inclusion at his organization. While many organizations today […]
Can we get an expatriate to launch our diversity & inclusion agenda?
An organization, Rasp Inc., is keen to initiate plans for making diversity & inclusion a key theme for the year. While their global headquarters has a strong practice for including minorities, there isn’t a forum to get marginalized employees to feel included.  They decide to engage an expatriate Joshua who has come over on a […]
5 Ways to Effectively Close the Loop with Your Stakeholders
Completed a campaign and moving on to the next? Did you take the time to seek feedback and share a campaign summary? If yes, you have just added more points to your credibility quotient. Closing the loop with stakeholders and actively seeking feedback can help you learn from initiatives, appreciate how they perceived your work […]
Daily Practice for Long-Term Success – What’s Your Story?
Irrespective of the role you play, every day brings new challenges and opportunities at work and beyond. Life and work can be demanding if you are drawn in different directions and there is not a rhythm to your practice – as a professional, student, entrepreneur or homemaker. In the Progress Principle, Teresa Amabile studied close to 12,000 […]