Archive for Diversity & Inclusion
StrategyDriven Podcast Video Edition 1 – What is Diversity and Inclusion?
StrategyDriven Podcasts focus on the tools and techniques executives and managers can use to improve their organization’s alignment and accountability to ultimately achieve superior results. These podcasts elaborate on the principle, best practice, and warning flag articles found on the StrategyDriven website. Episode 1 – What is Diversity and Inclusion? examines the definition of diversity [...]
Read morePeople Quit Their Boss… Not the Company!
When I give my ‘No Nonsense Retention’ speech to groups across the country, I get frustrated feedback from audience members about poor leadership hurting retention in their organization. Regardless of the level of leadership you hold in the organization, you will drive yourself crazy if you try to solve all of the location or facilities [...]
Read moreDiversity and Inclusion – Return on Investment, part 4: Litigation, Fine, and Payout Reduction
Harassment litigation represents a catastrophic failure of an organization’s diversity and inclusion program. In these circumstances, the organization not only fell short of excellent performance but realized such aberrant behavior as to be non-compliant with applicable laws. Such occurrences not only represent large one-time costs associated with reduced productivity, heightened distraction, and elevated attrition. Diversity [...]
Read moreDiversity and Inclusion – Return on Investment, part 3: Employee Productivity Enhancement
Unseen millions are lost by companies every year; the result of employees withholding the full commitment of their physical, intellectual, and emotional contributions. Surveys conducted by the Gallup Organization identified an 18 percent difference in productivity between the best and worst performing companies.1 Yet, as we shall explain, even the best performing companies have room [...]
Read moreNew Tool Release – Value of Employee Productivity
StrategyDriven contributors are pleased to announce the release of Diversity and Inclusion – Value of Employee Productivity. Loss of productivity costs resulting from acts of incivility and poor managerial behavior are staggering and yet goes largely unrecognized. There is no financial statement line item, no general ledger entry, and no budget explicitly set aside for [...]
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