At Inclusity, we closely follow workplace trends regarding employee engagement. It’s more than just curiosity; it’s part of our mission to help organizations create environments where employees engage. Gallup shared data in January that indicates that engagement...
The turn of the calendar year often prompts organizations to pause and reflect; it’s an opportunity to assess the previous year and make conscious choices about where to go in the current year. 2023 stood out for concerns about inflation, adjustment to the “new...
It was at the Tehran Conference between the Allied forces in 1943, during one of the most pivotal moments of World War II, that British prime minister Winston Churchill famously declared, “In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a...
When Maria Arcocha White’s family emigrated to the U.S. in the early 1960s, the concepts diversity and inclusion didn’t exist. Four-year old Maria and her family fled Cuba as political refugees, arriving in Toledo, Ohio with only a few suitcases of belongings. At the...
Of all the difficult tasks that people are sometimes called upon to perform during their careers, speaking unpleasant truths to the privileged and powerful is one of the hardest. It carries with it the social stigma of being associated with an organization’s problems,...
The pursuit of higher education is one of those personal milestones, like owning a house and becoming financially independent, that has traditionally been associated with the good life in America. Over the last century, going to college essentially replaced the...
In the United States today, the idea of “famine” is something we tend to associate with fiction and the distant past, not our own lives. News stories warn us of housing troubles, poverty and homelessness, but not of nationwide food shortages that endanger human lives....
It’s a sad irony of life that many people who spend their careers making others laugh have little to laugh about themselves. In recent decades many comedians have publicly discussed their struggles with depression, but the relationship between professional humor and...
When we discuss the various kinds of adversity that our Achievers have had to overcome in their lives, we run the risk of overlooking one considerable advantage that many of them had in common: that of living in a society where individual rights were respected and...
Not all the harmful prejudices that hold us back from mutual respect and cooperation are based on visually apparent traits like race or sex. The fine gradations of polite society have given most of us an abundance of criteria that we use to judge people based on their...
Inclusity starts each inclusion training session with a “connection.” This is more than just a euphemism for those (sometimes-corny) ice breaker activities that add levity to a workshop, if little substance. Often our connection exercises ask participants to...
The turn of the 20th century was the first great era of female emancipation in the United States. For the first time in centuries, public figures encouraged women to wear clothing that facilitated movement, take healthy exercise regularly, and involve themselves in...
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