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Take Action Toward Changes You Want
Action is an everyday leadership practice. Yet fear, anxiety, and overwhelm often keep leaders stuck in a cycle of overanalyzing their organization’s problems at a time when when equity commitments require meaningful action. This blog post explores how to break the loop of inaction and take intentional steps toward meaningful, concrete results.
Let’s Get REAL: The Series Every Executive Leader Needs Now
REAL (Racial Equity for Adaptive Leaders) podcast series addresses the equity challenges that executive leaders face in a politically toxic time.
Staff-Led Groups Cannot Anchor Your Accountability Strategy
When creating organizational accountability for racial equity efforts, avoid over-relying on staff-led groups.
How to Think Systemically about Racial Equity with the 6P+ Framework
In partnership with Make Communities, we have developed the the 6P+ Racial Equity Framework ® to take organizations from color-blind to equity-centered using a whole-organization approach.
When DEI Becomes a Weapon
In this blog post, I share thoughts about how DEI is weaponized and the opportunity for leaders who hold racial equity as a value.
Hurry up, Already: Slow Progress in Reaching Equity Committments Diminishes Staff Morale
Racial equity work that moves too slowly will diminish staff morale. Analysis paralysis can keep the most well-intentioned leaders from advancing needed shifts in their organization’s practices, resulting in racial equity fatigue.
3 Reasons to Update Your Employee Handbook — Even With A Limited Budget
Update your employee handbooks at least once a year to refresh outdated policies and add new ones.
How to Manage Resistance to Racial Equity
The key to sustainability is for exeuctive leaders to recognize resistance to racial equity and create a plan for working through it.
Organizational Trauma Leaves Lasting Effects on Employees
The experience of trauma in the workplace can have a lasting impact on employees. It's important to recognize and address the reality of organizational trauma.
Lead equitably!
Race in the Workplace provides the resources and help you need to lead equitable organizational change. It is delivered to you weekly and is written for leaders of organizations and teams. It includes actionable tools, practical guidance, and best practices from experienced leaders who believe that racial equity matters for nonprofits, philanthropies, and businesses.