TJ Associates

March 2011

In This Issue
Client Testimonial
Book of the Month
Measuring and Assess Diversity and Inclusion

Client Testimonial:

 

Talent Journey custom designed our " Leveraging Difference and Building Inclusion" training program at Medtronic. The experience equipped our HR Diversity Leaders &Generalists with inside-out transformation to be Strategic Diversity and Inclusion Change Agents. The evaluations and results of the workshops were nothing short of outstanding! Talent Journey brings a combination of passion and expertise in diversity and inclusion that transform people and develops competence.

Sharon Piper Diggs
Director Talent Acquisition,

Medtronic, Inc.

Book of the Month

The Medici Effect

When the Medicis, a Florentine banking family of 15th century Italy, brought together a wide range of thinkers and artists under the patronage, they helped spark an explosion of knowledge and creativity known as the Renaissance. The author of this volume (written for a business audience) believes that it is possible to recreate this type of explosion by finding the "intersectional" ideas that cross between disciplines and cultures. By "stepping into the Intersection," entrepreneurs and others can find the innovative ideas that can lead to the "Medici Effect."

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In 2011, we commit to providing you with the same insightful and relevant leadership information as always.  We hope you noticed some changes to our usual monthly format.  We have shortened our newsletter and will provide easy-to-view articles here on the front page - with further reading available by a click.  We welcome your feedback and hope that you will continue to consider us a valuable resource for your business.  

  

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Diane Brown
Talent Journey Founder
760-471-2703 or admin@thetalentjourney.com
 
  

Greetings! 

 

This month our focus is on Diversity and Inclusion (DI). The feature & the guest article, as well as the book suggestion all speak to the fact that in a world of globalization and customization, workplace diversity and inclusion are no longer a luxury, they're an imperative! In this newsletter you will find some great ideas for implementation.

 

Featured Article

The Renaissance of Diversity and Inclusion

written by Diane Brown

What impact does increased diversity have on workforce productivity and business success? The answer to that question depends upon how well your organization leverages diversity and nurtures an environment of inclusion to ignite high performance outcomes.

Click here to read more about Diversity and Inclusion

The New Tenets of Diversity


While the concept of Diversity and Inclusion is not a new idea, Andrés T. Tapia, chief diversity officer
and emerging workforce consulting leader at Hewitt Associates, argues that in times of changing
economics DI efforts hold a new future. He foretells three new tenets for the emergent DI's best practices. These include acquiring the competence to manage
our differences, obtaining senior leadership buy-in to DI's short and long term organizational success and maximizing DI to achieve strategic advantage. 

  

Click here to read the full Tapia article

Measuring and Assessing
Diversity and Inclusion

To help identify strengths and development areas in Diversity and Inclusion, Talent Journey uses the Performance Fit assessement.  You can learn more on our website: The Talent Journey

Our Performance Fit assessment report helps your team identify ways to leaverage strengths to influence strategic change within the organization. 

Applications in Your Business

 

Diversity and Inclusion Workshop Objectives: 

  • Increase power of influence as a change agent (influencer)
  •  Break down misperceptions that inhibit information flow and informed decision-making
  • Understand that inclusion generates increased engagement and profits
  • Stimulate "inside out transformation" through renewal of mind, heart and hands
  • Enhance ability and commitment to influence DI change

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