On October 25, 2007 I launched my blog, Cultural IQ. Please visit me there to offer your ideas and opinions regarding the issues of the day. My hope is that cultural trendsetters and change agents will gather there regularly to share thoughts, and offer support and resources to one another.
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Friday, October 26, 2007
What’s Hot and What’s Not
- the Diversity Trend Lines
By Linda S. Wallace
When human resource professionals gather at a diversity conference, it is a little like a swap meet where ideas are traded and challenges are explored.
The men and women on the frontlines of the movement to manage diversity and develop worker potential engaged in many crucial conversations Oct.18-20 during the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Workplace Diversity Conference titled: Leading, Changing, Transforming.
Feel good workshops are out. Opportunities for individual learning and growth are in. Shame-on-you speeches are out. Trusting cultures that welcome honest and open dialogues are in. Workshops that preach love, peace and happiness are fading from the scene. Training sessions focused on building organizational capabilities and competencies are in. Read more...
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