If we want to see justice, we must accept that we can’t achieve it alone and must practice standing up for it within our own spheres of influence. In many instances, we may be laying the groundwork so that future generations can continue to build on our work. In my personal life, this has manifested in taking action at my son’s predominantly white school.
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With commuters trickling back into the office amid the realities of inflation and constantly mutating subvariants, the VUCA world presents ever more hurdles to inclusion in a transformed workplace. From simmering tensions around who has to come into the office and who gets to work remotely, to the very real anxieties concerning returning to an environment where microaggressions and harm abound for marginalized workers, it is imperative that organizations prevent an “us vs. them” mentality from taking root during what is an already stressful time. Following are a few tips for making that happen.
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With recruiting talent being a top concern among CEOs and with multicultural populations being cited as “the growth engine of the future of the United States” by Nielsen, applying a justice lens to your hiring will undoubtedly lead to a better organization. Equity is a win for all. Here, we look at three areas related to recruiting and hiring that can help increase diversity in the workplace despite these volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) times.
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This week’s feature highlights the experiences of navigating our Volatile, Uncertain, Complex, and Ambiguous world from The Winters Group’s Learning and Innovation’s newest team members, Tami Jackson and Gabrielle Gayagoy Gonzalez. Following is an excerpt from Tami and Gabby’s discussion on the different reasons that brought them to The Winters Group, plus the common takeaways that helped them transition to new roles in the middle of the pandemic.
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As we kick off Black History Month, now is a good time to lift up history in the making with President Joe Biden’s unprecedented commitment to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court. If this sounds to you like it’s been a long time coming, you wouldn’t be wrong: Of the 115 Supreme Court justices who have served since 1789, only two have been Black (both men), five have been women, and a total of 108 — roughly 94% — have been white men.
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