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STRESS
MANAGEMENT
Signs
of Stress and Imbalance
How To Break
Through Fear in Turbulent Times
What is
Stress?
Solving
Problems in a High-Stress Environment
Break
Through Self-Doubt & Fear
Let's Get
Physical
Holiday Stress Hotspots
Make
2004 your Year of Organization
Holiday Stress Hotspots
Manage
Stress by Stopping Obsessive or Unwanted Thoughts
Meditate
Stress Away
Taking Stress for a Ride
3
Strategies to Reduce Stress
Cleaning Up
Stress; Control It, Change It or Let It Go!
Substance
Abuse
The Courage
to Feel Bad
The Challenge
of Change
Tips
for Managing Holiday Madness
Modern Day Stressors: What Stress Looks Like in the 21st Century
The Life Juggle: How to Find Lifework Balance
New Year's
Resolutions
CHANGE
The Questions Leaders Should Ask Themselves
about Change
The Top Ten Ways to Manage People through
Change
Understanding Change
The Challenge of Change
RUNNING A BUSINESS
Be Heard. Be Strong. Be Effective. How to Deliver Impressive Presentations
Getting Started in the Speaking Business: Answers to Burning Questions
What Entrepreneurs Need to Know to be Successful
How to Create and Maintain Culture as You Grow
Recruitment and
Retention of Diverse Candidates
DIVERSITY
A Passion for Diversity
Traits of a Diverse Organization
Simma's Holiday Diversity Q and
A
How to Go from Eggshell Walking
to Multicultural Festivity Making
Are You Wasting Your Money on
Diversity Training?
Interview Bias: Overcoming the
Silent Forces Working Against You
How to Help LGBT Employees Help
Your Organization Grow
How to Integrate Diversity Into
Your Business Strategy
Diversity Benefits Organizations
and Communities
Diversity Fast Facts
How to Integrate Diversity
10 PC Tips for Communicating
with a Diverse Audience
Are You Truly Successful?
Interviewing Employees Who Stay
Wage and Position Disparity
Across Gender
What Every Consultant Needs to
Know About Diversity Consulting and Training
Diversity Competency Assessment
Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Candidates
Understanding Diversity Dialogues
Dialogue as a Communication Tool Amongst Diverse Groups of People
Communicating across Generations in the Workplace
Simma & Kate's Strategies for Cross-Generational Relationship Building
Valuing Diversity during the Holidays
COMMUNICATION
Understanding Dialogue: A Q&A on
the benefits of dialogue
Dialogue as a Communication Tool
Communication with Concern
Helping Others Deal with Loss
10 PC Tips for Communicating
with a Diverse Audience
Tips for Better Communication
Between Men and Women in the Workplace
Understanding Diversity
Dialogues
Dialogue as a Communication Tool
Amongst Diverse Groups of People
Simma & Kate's Strategies for
Cross-Generational Relationship Building
Web Site Tips
GENDER
COMMUNICATION
Differences in Male and Female Communication Styles
Gender Communications Differences and Strategies
Wage and Position Disparity across Gender
Tips for Better Communication between Men and Women in the Workplace
WORK/LIFE BALANCE
Life/Work
Balance in the Real World
New Year's
Resolutions: A New Approach?
Working with Loved Ones: Leverage Potential and Avoid Pitfalls
Modern Day Stressors: What Stress Looks Like in the 21st Century
The Life Juggle: How to Find Lifework Balance
RESTAURANT & HOSPITALITY
All in the Family
Are You Truly Successful?
How to Create and Maintain the Culture of Your Restaurants
Let's Get Physical
Meditate Stress Away
Taking Stress for a Ride
The Challenge of Change
3 Strategies to Reduce Stress
Cleaning Up Substance Abuse
FEAR &
SELF-DOUBT
Break Through Self-Doubt & Fear
Substance Abuse
The Courage to Feel Bad |
Recruitment and Retention of Diverse Candidates
If there is not enough diversity in your employee base or there is high
turnover with certain groups of employees, your organization will not be
able to leverage the power of diversity. Building diversity in a company
through recruiting and retention is an important step to creating an
inclusive workplace. Are your recruiting efforts doing the following?
Here are some tips to help build diversity in your organization through
recruitment:
Simma Lieberman's diversity training seminars can help your organization or company. If you are interested in hiring Simma for a diversity seminar,
click here for more information.
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Begin to recruit from middle and high schools. Attend career days and
come prepared to discuss the benefits of working for your organization
and your industry.
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Identify stereotypes of people who work in your industry and develop
strategies for changing perceptions i.e. Firefighting should only be a
male occupation.
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Use more inclusive language and visuals in rule books, orientation, and
recruiting materials.
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Create cross-cultural and cross gender mentoring programs and provide
training for mentors.
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Develop relationships with associations and organizations that are
geared toward underrepresented groups.
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Be aware of your own biases and stereotypes and their impact on the
environment.
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Create processes to make people who are different from you feel welcome
and included in your organization.
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Mentor people who are from different cultural or ethnic backgrounds or
gender from you. It will help you become more comfortable with other
people and will help your staff grow in their careers.
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Incorporate ideas from other cultures to solve problems and be more
innovative.
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Use resources that are already in place and research what other
organizations have done to be successful.
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Provide cross-cultural communication training to help staff work better
together and serve the client population more effectively.
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Survey and interview staff across demographics to determine their needs
in order to create a strategic plan for retention and increased
recruitment under represented populations.
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Examine your definition of leadership qualities to include ways in which
people who have different thought processes and communication styles can
lead. If you have been hierarchical in the past, start learning that
people with consensus styles can also be effective leaders.
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Conduct exit interviews and identify patterns and themes if they exist.
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Be willing to change to accommodate and use new ideas and creativity.
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Too many people who own or run restaurants do not know enough about
conducting interviewing potential employees. Whether you define your
restaurant as fast food, casual dining, or upscale, hiring the wrong
person for the job can be expensive. Consider the costs of advertising
for candidates, interviewing time, disrupted customer service, training,
and severance pay. Select a position in your restaurant, and estimate
how much each step of the hiring process costs in terms of time and
money. You'll see how important having an interviewing and hiring system
is.
Simma Lieberman works with people and organizations to create environments where
people can do their best work. She specializes in diversity, gender communications,
life-work balance and stress, and acquiring and retaining new customers.
You may reprint these articles free of charge, on a non-exclusive basis, provided
that Simma Lieberman's name and contact information are included. She would
love to know that you plan to use her article(s); please contact
her to let her know.
Call Simma at 510.527.0700 or Email simma@simmalieberman.com
Visit her website at www.simmalieberman.com
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