Thu.Mar 07, 2024

article thumbnail

Navigating DEI Metrics: Key indicators for business success

Insperity

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) have transitioned from being programmatic solutions to essential components of a solid people strategy. Today, companies understand that fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace isn’t just a checkbox for public relations purposes; it is also smart for business. But how do you know if your DEI strategy is making a difference in your organization?

Promotion 246
article thumbnail

41 States Urge Meta to Combat Facebook and Instagram Account Takeovers

Spiceworks

More than 40 U.S. states have urged Meta Platforms to take action against hackers and scammers who hijack Instagram and Facebook accounts. Learn about the growing concern about account takeovers and their implications for cyber security. The post 41 States Urge Meta to Combat Facebook and Instagram Account Takeovers appeared first on Spiceworks.

Security 214
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Latinos in Hollywood: Amplifying voices, expanding horizons

McKensey

Improving on- and off-screen representation of Latinos, their stories, and their culture could generate billions of dollars in new revenue for the industry, according to new McKinsey research.

145
145
article thumbnail

Women’s Day 2024: Inclusion In Tech To Accelerate Progress

Spiceworks

March 8th is celebrated worldwide as International Women’s Day. This day honors the achievements of women and seeks to enlighten people about creating a gender-equal society. Here, tech leaders discuss the growing role of inclusion in breaking barriers in 2024. The post Women’s Day 2024: Inclusion In Tech To Accelerate Progress appeared first on Spiceworks.

211
211
article thumbnail

The journey toward AI-enabled railway companies

McKensey

Railway companies could use opportunities created by rapidly evolving artificial intelligence technologies as a catalyst to improve the way they plan and deliver operations.

article thumbnail

White House Backs Bipartisan Bill To Push ByteDance Into Selling TikTok

Spiceworks

U.S. lawmakers have introduced a bipartisan bill that would prevent the availability of TikTok on app stores or web hosting services unless it separates itself from parent company ByteDance. Learn more about the incident and implications of geopolitics with technology. The post White House Backs Bipartisan Bill To Push ByteDance Into Selling TikTok appeared first on Spiceworks.

article thumbnail

The Philippine economy in 2024: Stronger for longer?

McKensey

The Philippine economy was more resilient than expected in 2023—current projections indicate that it could again achieve healthy growth in 2024.

137
137

More Trending

article thumbnail

5 ways to make sure extroverts don’t dominate brainstorming sessions

Work Life

One of the downsides of traditional brainstorming sessions is that they favor extroverts. To participate, you need to interject ideas with lots of energy and enthusiasm. Nothing squashes introverts’ creativity quicker than being drowned out by the louder voices in the room. Traditional brainstorming also sets the stage for one or two people control the narrative, resulting in group think.

article thumbnail

Analyzing the CEO–CMO relationship and its effect on growth

McKensey

CEOs acknowledge the expertise and importance of chief marketing officers and their role in helping the company grow, yet there’s still a strategic disconnect in the C-suite. Here’s how to close the gap.

Sales 110
article thumbnail

How to Communicate Effectively At Work: 12 Tips

Fellow

Learning how to communicate effectively in the workplace is crucial to success. Great communication skills are one of the most sought-after leadership competencies , making them that much more important to work on. Open and effective communication is essential to any working team, so we have you covered with a complete guide to finessing your communication strategy.

article thumbnail

Salary transparency laws are most effective if they require this one thing, according to new research

Work Life

Over the last few years, states that were early adopters of pay transparency laws have served as a testing ground for advocates of the policy change, who argued that disclosing salary information would help mitigate pay inequities on the basis of race and gender. It’s already clear that these laws—which typically require employers to either post salary ranges in job listings or verbally disclose them to candidates—are empowering workers in certain states with more informatio

Salary 111
article thumbnail

HP | Poly Offices – Scotts Valley

Office Snapshots

Poly has deep roots in the Santa Cruz community, the site of their previous campus location. For the Scotts Valley project, the client wanted to continue celebrating that connection in their new space. This led to the design concept of Changing Tides, paying homage to the Santa Cruz coastline and natural beauty of where the land meets the sea. With Poly’s acquisition by HP mid-project, the team was given the additional project goals of reassuring employees and encouraging them to foster a new jo

article thumbnail

The power of pace in technology

McKensey

The CEO of Hivemind Technologies explains what steps matter in speeding software development for transformations.

article thumbnail

SUCCESS® to Host Women’s Leadership Conference and Empower Visionaries of Tomorrow

Success

DALLAS, March 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — SUCCESS ® magazine will inspire and celebrate impactful women across industries at the i-LEAD SUCCESS® Virtual Summit March 12-13, 2024. During this two-day event, SUCCESS will bolster and foster community for self-identified women to share insights and rewrite the narrative for the next generation of women’s leadership.

article thumbnail

In Defense of Open Dialogue Research

Mad in America

Editor’s note from Robert Whitaker: We recently noticed on X/Twitter the posting of an article, published in Lancet Psychiatry, that was pitched as a review of the literature regarding the effectiveness of “alternative psychosocial interventions for people with acute, non-affective psychosis?” The authors concluded that while there was abundant evidence from RCTs that antipsychotics are effective in treating “acute psychosis and reducing relapse,” and there was a much “smaller evidence bas

article thumbnail

Peach Content Offices – Ramat Gan

Office Snapshots

Nestled on the 19th floor of the Allied Tower in Ramat Gan, the sprawling offices of “Peach Content” span approximately 350 sqm. Within these dynamic walls, Peach Content, a lively and vibrant company specializing in digital platform content production, thrives with a workforce of young and creative individuals. The challenge in designing these new offices was clear—to craft a workspace that seamlessly aligns with the company’s identity and the nature of its work, while also re

article thumbnail

Will Teams Collaborate Better During a Crisis?

I/O at Work

New research finds that the COVID-19 pandemic uniquely influenced virtual teams’ ability to collaborate and reach consensus.

article thumbnail

NSI Offices – Amsterdam

Office Snapshots

NSI N.V. moved to its new office in Centerpoint II in Amsterdam South East in December 2021. The interior has been designed in collaboration with the Dutch design agency HD+VK to create a healthy and inspiring environment, fostering collaboration and interaction. The goal of the concept was to create a sustainable space that is, on the one hand, flexible enough to stay relevant in the ever-changing workplace landscape and, on the other hand, in line with the NSI mission to showcase the office of

article thumbnail

Psychedelics Doctor Admits Relationship With Former Patient Who’s Now Dead

Mad in America

From BristolLive : “A prominent psychiatrist who opened the UK’s first clinic using ketamine to treat patients here in Bristol has been suspended for 12 months after having a sexual relationship with a former private patient who has since died [by suicide]. Dr Benjamin Sessa’s fitness to practice was found to be impaired by a tribunal.

article thumbnail

Temple & Webster Offices – Sydney

Office Snapshots

Having previously occupied five separate locations, the mission for the new headquarters was to create a central hub that could support the ever-growing team into the future and cement T&W’s position as a top Australian employer and employer of choice. In line with this mission, there were three main objectives that guided every aspect of the decision-making during the project: drawing people back to the office in a post-COVID world; attracting and retaining top talent; and setting up T&

article thumbnail

How to use technology to improve any presentation

Work Life

Technological advancements are rapidly changing the way sales presentations look and sound. Newer tools of communication allow entire teams of professionals to reach farther and faster as they share their messages with listeners down the street, on the opposite coast, and across the globe. But no amount of sophisticated technology will ever supplant the necessity of creating a genuine connection with listeners.

article thumbnail

10 Trailblazing Women Paving the Way for a Better Future

Success

From clearing criminal records for second chances to supporting cancer survivors with delivered self-care goods, these 10 women are creating their own industry niches. Read on to learn more about these trailblazing women and the work they’re doing to pave the way for a better future. Sheena Meade, CEO of The Clean Slate Initiative Photo courtesy of The Clean Slate Initiative Sheena Meade “leads a national bipartisan organization to advance policy that automatically clears all eligible arre

article thumbnail

Unlocking the leadership potential of Gen Z: a guide for senior leaders

Work Life

Every week, there seems to be another piece bemoaning the “challenges” of Gen Z workers. Many senior leaders feel Gen Zers come across as more frustrating than additive: demanding, questioning, and challenging their managers with nontraditional views of work. Gen Z’s friction-causing approach earns them a lot of flak. But what senior leaders often overlook is their remarkable potential.

article thumbnail

Six lessons for incoming university presidents

McKensey

The most effective university presidents use the first six to 12 months of their tenure to renew and reinvigorate the institution. Six actions could set them up for success.

article thumbnail

UNESCO study reveals evidence of regressive stereotypes in LLMs

Workplace Insight

To coincide with International Women’s Day, a UNESCO study revealed worrying tendencies in Large Language models (LLM) to produce gender bias, as well as homophobia and racial stereotyping. Women were described as working in domestic roles far more often than men – four times as often by one model – and were frequently associated with words like “home”, “family” and “children”, while male names were linked to “business”, “executive”, “salary”, and “career”.

article thumbnail

Entrepreneur Serena Kerrigan Reveals Three Ways You Can Build Confidence… And Your Empire

Success

Milestone birthdays invite you to take stock of who you are, where you’ve been and how to best align your current actions to make your future vision a reality. While it makes sense that each new decade can bring a deepening of passions or a shift along a continuum, those in the business of social media must also contend with evolving beyond the interests that first brought them clicks.

article thumbnail

The sector responds to the Spring Budget

Workplace Insight

Yesterday’s Spring Budget included a number of announcements that affect the various people, place and technology professions in the UK. These include a cut in National Insurance, pension fund reforms, support for working parents, AI, helping people back in to work and more. You can see the Government’s own summary here. The various industry sectors have been quick to respond to the announcements.

article thumbnail

How To Record On Google Meet: A Simple Guide

Fellow

As a manager, you’re responsible for conducting productive discussions with your team to keep them aligned on goals and priorities and ensure any challenges do not block them. Whether you’re trying to facilitate better accountability on action items, create a paper trail of complex decision-making, or build a knowledge library for future training, you’ll find plenty of benefits to recording meetings.

article thumbnail

Visual Communication in the Workplace: What It’s All About?

Yarooms

Visual communication in the workplace can make the difference between a person coming in for an interview and getting lost and someone who finds their way as soon as they walk in the door. And that's not even by far the only benefit: having strong visual communication skills can help you stand out amongst a crowd of applicants and make an immediate impact on your potential employer.

article thumbnail

9 Types of Manager Meetings Every Team Needs

Fellow

As a manager, you oversee various meetings crucial for team cohesion, project advancement, and decision-making. However, many leaders struggle with efficient meeting management. In this guide, we’ll explore nine essential manager meetings to optimize your team’s time and productivity while fostering accountability. Onboarding meetings Weekly team meetings One-on-one meetings Decision-making meetings Problem-solving meetings Brainstorming meetings Project kickoff meetings Feedback and

article thumbnail

Navigating the Interplay of AI and Human Intervention in Gaming Safety

Zevo Health

In the ever-evolving landscape of technology, artificial intelligence (AI) has emerged as a game-changer in the world of data analysis and response. Though AI introduces new possibilities for innovation and improved efficiency, worries about ethical implications and safety have also surfaced. Finding the right equilibrium between AI’s capabilities and human oversight is essential for guaranteeing a protected and pleasant gaming experience for all players.

article thumbnail

Kanban Meetings: How to Run Them Successfully

Fellow

Workflow inefficiencies cut business revenues by 20 to 30 percent every year. The good news is that you can reduce these inefficiencies by organizing Kanban meetings with your team. Kanban meetings are essentially lean management made into a meeting. With our guide, learn how to maximize your team’s efforts and properly complete your projects with Kanban meetings.

article thumbnail

6 Steps To Create An Amazing Employee Recognition Strategy

Vantage Circle

An employee recognition strategy is more than just a “nice-to-have"; it's a cornerstone of organizational success. This strategy goes beyond mere acknowledgments, embedding a culture of appreciation that aligns closely with company values and objectives. In this blog, we will explore the goals, approaches, best practices, and more. We’ll also learn how to craft an effective employee recognition strategy step-by-step.

article thumbnail

It’s not just ‘woke.’ These are the most polarizing words in America

Work Life

A picture is worth a thousand words. Yet a three-letter acronym might be even more powerful—and a growing problem for business. As America’s former and current presidents careen toward a November rematch, the country’s growing division and the words being used in the political campaigns are fast becoming business reputation and risk factors.