Career Lessons from a Toxic Work Environment
One of the biggest challenges in any career is building a constructive relationship with your supervisor.
In this blog, I share valuable lessons learned from navigating toxic work dynamics and highlight the importance of career planning and coaching to help you move forward in challenging environments.
Transform Your Career Reflection: Leverage the Power of Coaching
Along our career journey, we encounter people who shape and influence our trajectory, acting as “mirrors, windows, doors, and keys.”
This blog highlights how these individuals may show up in your journey and how, through coaching, you can leverage these insights to drive your growth.
Broken Rung: Systemic Obstacles to Career Advancement
The ‘broken rung’ in the corporate ladder is the largest barrier to the career progression of women. Women of colour are hardest hit by this systemic obstacle.
This blog highlights the issue and offers remedies to improve career advancement opportunities for women of colour.
The Power of Names: Fostering Inclusivity at Work
Creating an inclusive work environment starts with simple actions, like getting to know the people around you – beginning with their preferred names.
This blog provides 10 practical tips for fostering workplace inclusivity and respect for colleagues who have diverse names.
Breaking Barriers: All Hands on Deck for Employment Equity
While everyone deserves a fair chance to reach their full potential in their career, the playing field is not level.
There are practical approaches that we can all adopt to reduce hiring biases and ensure partiality and fairness for all.
The Hiring Bias Reset: Rolling out the Welcome Mat to Newcomers
We may appreciate the benefits of multiculturalism in our communities, but in our workplaces, hiring still tends to be biased to “sameness”.
As a leader, a reset is needed to support your team to adopt more inclusive hiring practices that level the playing field for qualified newcomers and increase your access to a larger pool of skilled talent.
The Snowball Effect: Using “Nudging” to Move Diversity & Inclusion Mountains
Having a diversity and inclusion mandate, strategies and training programs are all fantastic. But your team may need a little nudge for long lasting change.
This post suggest small actions that can have a real impact on helping to make real progress on workplace diversity, inclusion and belonging for your team.
Voices For Action Against Racism: Canadian Organizations Leading Change
In recognition of the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we’ve highlighted Four Black organizations standing up in support of anti-racism in Canada.
Survey: Black employees are twice as likely to face discrimination in the workplace*
Read about the results of Lead to Change’s 2020 Workplace Diversity & Inclusion survey.