Having a decent product or service might have been enough to attract workers or customers and keep them in your court in the old days. Those days, however, are fading fast. On top of great services and products, people also demand that businesses keep their ethical bar high and connect with a real sense of individual and social purpose. It’s this exceptional moral operation that sets companies apart when products and services blur in appearance, quantity, or quality, and that marketers have to maintain as a core principle for building relationships, selling well, and contributing to growth.
Word of mouth works, but lies are no good
Each week, Karen Catlin shares five simple actions to create a more inclusive workplace and be a better ally.
1. Review resumes in the morning
Using data from a large recruitment platform, researchers at ETH Zurich analyzed how recruiters selected candidates. They found that unconscious racial bias was more pronounced by the end of the workday when recruiters were tired or wanted to leave work.
Wow.
So, in addition to other approaches you may already be taking to combat bias during the recruitment process, consider reviewing resumes in the morning when you and your recruiting team are fresh.
Looking for more ideas to be more inclusive during the hiring process? …
All developers need to “kinden” up
Years ago, I was working on a project with a tight deadline. And as so many of these projects are, it was underfunded and understaffed. The developers were working crazy hours to deliver on time. I remember going home from work to have dinner in front of my laptop, working late into the night, then getting up early to go to work again.
One morning I came into the office to find one of my female colleagues, let’s call her Jane, reduced to tears. She told me;
“It’s Rich,*he just doesn’t care. I have been working so hard and I…
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Java is one of the best and most popularly used programming languages and is going to be. The reason for Java’s popularity is its functionalities and approach that enables the developers to create a simple factorial program and even heavy code projects. It offers the most flexible ways to app development and this makes it one of the most used programming languages. But having said that, whenever a programmer works with Java, he might need certain tools that can help in maintaining the workflow looking…
Each week, Karen Catlin shares five simple actions to create a more inclusive workplace and be a better ally.
1. Avoid last-minute schedule changes
July is Disability Pride Month, and I’m starting today’s newsletter with a suggestion that I recently learned: Avoid making last-minute changes to schedules. As Laurie Henneborn wrote in the Harvard Business Review, “advance planning is often key to an employee with a disability’s successful navigation of daily life and work.” Too many last-minute schedule changes can cause harm to a disabled person (as well as to single parents and many others).
India’s Lemon Tree Hotels recommends exactly this in training on how to work with colleagues with disabilities. Employees must also take an introductory sign language course so they can…
The year is 2021, folks, and the world is getting smarter with smartphones. This calls for more and more apps for your target audience to interact with.
They(mobile apps) need to be robust, dynamic, and efficient, which calls for the comparison of the year: Flutter vs. React Native vs. Kotlin.
If you plan to build web apps, here’s React vs. Angular vs. Vue to help you choose the right one.
After all, this daunting task of putting the tick mark on any one of them needs to be answered. …
Virtually all managers use performance reviews with their team members, given that the assessments can help workers use their talents well and know where they can grow. But accomplishment reviews have their perks, too, and should be a regular part of your arsenal.
What is an accomplishment review?
An accomplishment review is a formal or informal one-on-one assessment where you focus on what someone on your team has achieved within a given time period. The accomplishments you highlight can be strictly task-based, but you also can highlight other areas, such as the development of new positive relationships.
The point of an accomplishment review is to
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In two weeks, I publish a book based on a concept I came up with five years in the making. As that date with destiny inches ever closer, I wanted to take the time to introduce the foundational mindset that has brought me to this point.
The catalyst for the book’s genesis stemmed from a period of self-indulged reflection, thinking back on the key moments of my young adult life that would propel me from an identity-seeking college student to a self-made author, artist, and entrepreneur by the age of 25. …
Each week, Karen Catlin shares five simple actions to create a more inclusive workplace and be a better ally.
1. Don’t require employees to use personal credit cards
In a recent Washington Post article titled I’m tired of being asked to front thousands in business expenses on my personal credit card, an anonymous reader explained:
“I’m a Black man with not the greatest credit score, living on a tight budget, and although my boss is an ally who tries to drive diversity and inclusion, it feels like a ‘White privilege’ issue that he assumes I somehow have liquidity to cover these purchases.”
In response to the article, journalist stacy-marie ishmael tweeted:
“my personal finances are extremely broken in part because i worked at tech and media companies that…
Whether small, medium or large enterprises, all businesses are making successful leaps by building state-of-the-art mobile apps for their business to increase their profit margins and enhance their customer base.
Building an app for your business could certainly be a lucrative idea, but then, as they say, one size doesn’t fit all! How do you assess the need for an app in that case? What questions do you need to answer before you set your foot ahead?
Increasingly, we are accessing the web using smartphones and tablets, with consumers now averaging 4.2 hours per day in apps from 2019.
The…
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