I’ve had the nerve wracking experience of being interviewed on a couple of occasions for a Race for Opportunity Award. On one particular occasion, seared into my memory, I had to improvise my Director’s opening position statement as she had been delayed – a taxi accident (she and everyone involved was OK). Fortunately […]
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Over the last few months I have been collaborating with Kathryn Cave, the Editor of an on-line magazine IDG Connect for the ICT Industry. She is working on uncovering the extent of bullying in IT. This is important work and worth sharing with a wider audience. Here are some links to her […]
Without a doubt the artifacts of diversity and inclusion at work are here to stay: unconscious bias training, employee networks, the initiatives aimed at women, the awareness courses, the statistics and the measurement: the smorgasbord of imaginative ideas aimed at creating change. These are all elements which make valuing diversity a reality. What is new […]
Life’s rich tapestry, as the cliché goes, has many threads. It is sometimes good to pick up those threads and find meaning in them again, none more so than during this funeral period for Nelson Mandela. I have no photographs of me and the great man laughing together. The nearest I ever got was joining […]
During the week I was chatting to a nurse who was just back from maternity leave. Her toddler was at nursery and happy to be there, enjoying the new experience of water play and sharpening his negotiating skills over the megablocs with other determined toddlers. She was amused to receive a class progress report on […]
Michael Skapinker, commentator at the FT, credits a reader with the wittily apt ‘Catch-55’. The term sums up the dilemma faced by older workers who, with longer lives, later pensions and possibly second families need to work well into old age. The problem is, once you hit 50, employers do not want to recruit or […]
Walking along the London South Bank on Sunday evening I passed a restaurant where a group of twenty-something men were standing greeting a number of their mates. They all hugged and kissed. For a moment, on seeing the hugs and kisses, I was taken aback and then amused for reacting. But it led me to […]
I was but a small girl when Martin Luther King made his ‘I have a dream’ speech on that late August day in 1963. This morning on the Radio 4 Professor Clayborne Carson introduced a deeply moving reminiscence of those days and a roll call of civil rights champions across the last fifty years read […]
I have been interested in the advice currently being shared about ‘what to do when you are bullied’. Sadly most of it is idealised, text book advice, which does not take into account organisational real politik. The truth is that bullying is messy, highly emotional charged, multi-faceted and collusive. The only way bullies can be […]
A former colleague’s mum died recently: she was on the Liverpool Care Pathway and did not have a ‘good’ death. In her powerful article in Disability Now, From fact to fiction: the making and breaking of the Liverpool Care Pathway , Nikki Kenward in turn educates and dismays us about its misuse. She concludes with: […]
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