Author: Alexandra
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Productivity hacks for the holidays
Maintaining a routine during the holidays can be hard! Between cooking, eating turkey, and late nights with family and friends, it’s easy to let your body get off that internal clock you usually have to maintain for work and school. Here are some tips to help you stay focused and get some work done during…
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION: REWRITING THE RULES FOR MARKETING
When it comes to diversity in marketing, we’ve come a long way—but we still have a long way to go. Marketing has a unique role to play in rewriting the rules on diversity in business. Numerous studies show that diverse teams deliver superior results. For example, recent research found that inclusive teams make more effective business…
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DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION IN AVIATION
The aviation industry is a highly technical one, but as human beings, we cannot escape the fact that we are social individuals. The interaction with our colleagues is an indivisible aspect of any job, and as such, it should be treated with the importance it deserves, especially if the lives of tens or hundreds of…
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Diversity Doesn’t Stick Without Inclusion
Leaders have long recognized that a diverse workforce of women, people of color, and LGBT individuals confers a competitive edge in terms of selling products or services to diverse end users. Yet a stark gap persists between recognizing the leadership behaviors that unlock this capability and actually practicing them. Part of the problem is that…
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Campbell Soup names chief diversity and inclusion officer
Monica Diaz has been appointed to the newly created position of chief diversity and inclusion officer at the Campbell Soup Co., effective Nov. 20. In this role, Ms. Diaz will lead the company’s diversity and inclusion strategy, creating new programs and enhancing existing initiatives to “foster an inclusive culture and diverse workforce that mirrors Campbell’s…
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Thank a Woman Veteran
On Veterans Day, November 11, VA honors the 2.1 million women Veterans who have served our country and risked their lives to protect our freedoms, during times of peace and war. VA is thankful to all the generations of women Veterans who have shaped our military and served our country. America’s Women Veterans There are…
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How to Sell to Millennials? Be Radically Inclusive.
A recent executive order that suggests people who identify as transgender will not be recognized in the United States’ armed forces reminds us we cannot take tolerance and acceptance for granted. The motivations behind this type of action contrast starkly with the values of millennials — America’s largest generation according to population size. This demographic of adults ages 18…
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The Myriad Benefits of Diversity in the Workplace
In the age of technology, the world has become smaller. Smartphones and other mobile devices make it possible to interact with customers, vendors or employees on the other side of the world anytime of day or night. As businesses and individual communities have become more globalized, most companies are operating within a diverse marketplace. You…
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Campus Ethnic Diversity Methodology
College-bound students who believe that studying with people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds is important will want to consider campus ethnic diversity when choosing a school. To identify colleges where students are most likely to encounter undergraduates from racial or ethnic groups different from their own, U.S. News factors in the total proportion of minority students…
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National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day
Mentor. Teach. Inspire. This November 8 we celebrate National S.T.E.M./S.T.E.A.M. Day with a national holiday reserved to encourage kids and individuals of all ages to identify their passions in the world of Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math. With occupations related to S.T.E.M. expected to grow 70 percent faster than other occupations, S.T.E.M. /S.T.E.A.M. educators…