Wherever you look, from Harvard research to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) articles, you’ll find articles that either address unconscious bias or diversity training doesn’t work. Yet many organizations are trying to offer half-day “unconscious bias” training to eliminate workplace bias. Why Is Diversity & Inclusion in the Workplace Important? The fact is that such training does not change for a day and a half, and even if a behaviour change is observed, it is only for a short time. Research suggests that individuals return to “normal” after a few months, days, or hours. Unconscious bias training also risks losing people because it sometimes appears that training is tailored to…
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Frequently Asked 6 Soft Skills Interview Questions and Answers
The conversational, social, and personal qualities of a person are collectively referred to as soft skills. You can describe personality attributes that you can demonstrate at work by answering interview questions on soft skills. You may better communicate to a hiring manager how you can cooperate with your coworkers to achieve goals by learning more about probable soft skills interview questions and answers. What Makes Soft Skills Training so Crucial? Because they want to recruit a candidate who can adjust to various conditions, employers probe candidates during an interview about their soft skills training . Showing off your soft talents brings to light how you conducted yourself in past employment…
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16 Best Corporate Training Program & Courses 2023
To combat the COVID-19 epidemic, it is essential to have a flexible workforce. A comprehensive approach to talent management is needed to create an agile workforce, in which firms concentrate on the development of workers’ skills via on-the-job training. Now work from home (WFH) almost over and most of the companies calling there workforce back at the office premises . so L & D Professionals , Training Managers are hunting best corporate training program service providers in the town. Because a business is only as good as its people, it is imperative that it invest in a variety of staff development initiatives. We’ll show you how corporate training has evolved…
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15 Appraisal Questions and Answers To Prepare For Performance Review 2023
Appraisal Means a lot especially after a pandemic, Do you feel the same? Appraisal Meaning Performance appraisal is a discussion between an employee and employer. It provides an opportunity for the employees to highlight their achievements throughout the past year. The employers give them feedback so that the employees may improve their performance. All the employees have the potential to prepare for improving their performance. However, all the supervisors do not have the capability to provide constructive feedback or motivate the employees. The performance reviews may make all the employees nervous. Once the employees know the answers to a few interview questions, they will be able to project themselves as…
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Conflict Too Has a Positive Spin
Conflict is neither good nor bad. However, many of us consider it negative. But if you look at it through an optimistic approach, you’ll notice that it has a positive spin. If you use it rather than diffusing it, it triggers creativity, innovation, and transformation. Keep Positive Attitude. How conflict arises? Conflict arises when people from different diversities coexist. When their way of life or thought clashes, conflict takes place. I’ll explain this with an example. For instance, you have an incredible vision and to accomplish it you need a smart team. For this, you appoint outstanding, result-driven and passionate people as a part of your team. But, eventually, all…
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5 Ways to Stay Optimistic in Pessimistic Situations
Life is a roller coaster ride and it’s obvious that every path is not smooth. Remain Optimistic in Pessimistic Situations Negative situations can come in any form and predicting their nature is impossible. However, we can train our mind to face such situations. We can prepare ourselves to combat a catastrophe or crisis in a pattern. Now, for instance, you have spent hours and hours of hard work on designing an advertising campaign and the client rejects it. Moreover, while rejecting it the client criticizes you and your working style. In such situations, staying calm and positive is difficult, we all know it, but the situation gets worse if you…
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Women in Leadership Roles
Women have always played a vital role in pushing a human race forward. Therefore, maybe even nature has given her the responsibility to bear a child and nurture her/ him to be a human being. This doesn’t mean that the women in a leadership role are restricted to just that; it means that she has invincible capabilities and phenomenal strength to lead, manage and bring prosperity. A report named “Women on board” published by the UK government, in the year 2012, says “firms with more women in their senior management outperform their male team members, giving 42% higher returns on sales, 66% higher return on invested capital and 53% higher…
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How to Reach Out to People
Connecting with someone on Facebook or Twitter is easy nowadays, but difficult in our actual day to day lives. In order to connect, you need to first reach out to people. Why? One of the reasons behind that is we generally have the ability to talk or have a conversation, however, we lack the ability and willingness to connect with people emotionally or mentally. In today’s world, having positive connections (popularly known as ‘contacts’) is necessary for growth and development. Please note, here I refer to the connections not on your LinkedIn page, but in your real life. 🙂 In order to connect, you need to first reach out to…
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WHY ORGANIZATIONS MUST EMBRACE CULTURAL CHANGES
Corporate culture is a combination of beliefs, policies, and procedures that compose a behavioral pattern which the people of the organization follow, in order to achieve business objectives. It gives an organization a personality. Every organization has a different personality and culture. Some are dynamic and flexible, open to take risks and accept changes while some are backward and rigid towards the change. Famous minds around the world support the change. John F. Kennedy once truly said, ‘Change is the law of life.’ Robert E- Quinne, the expert in positive organizational change and the author of the best-selling volume ‘Deep Change’ quoted, “Change is a reflection of inner growth and…
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How to Achieve Excellence in Your Performance
Actions can be controlled, but results cannot. Therefore, concentrating on improving your actions or performance is more important rather than focusing on the results. If you achieve excellence in your performance, success comes naturally. However, the challenge is – how to achieve excellence. Here are some rules that will help you achieve excellence inyour performance: Rule 1: Break Convenience to Achieve Excellence While hiring employees, many organizations tend to have an average approach. To elaborate this further, we’ll take an example of a call centre project. Here, an XYZ company plans to hire staff to start up a call centre unit. For this, the board comes together for a discussion…
