“Schadenfreude: When the Banana Peel Is on Someone Else’s Floor and What Psychological Safety Has to Do with It”
Some time ago, I was looking for material to prepare a talk on the topic of being colleagues and psychological safety, and I came across this term, schadenfreude, which struck me, on the one hand because, with some embarrassment, I recognized some situations I had experienced in the past, and on the other because the […]
Ethnic differences: the case of a sensitive conversation
Conversation about ethnic differences is never easy within a group. On the other hand, after the #blacklivesmatter movement, having these kinds of conversations and acting on them has become a necessity and a starting point for creating organisational environments in which fairness and belonging can acquire concrete meaning, beyond declarations of intent and hashtags on […]
Promoting inclusive leadership from recruitment onwards
Many organisations have been committed for years to promoting a culture of inclusiveness, which guarantees all people equality of treatment, rights and opportunities to belong. But how can we increase the chances that, from the moment they join the company, new people will be aligned with and contribute to this commitment? This is the question […]
Othering
This morning while reading the newspaper I was struck by a piece of news. A family in Palermo had agreed to take in refugees from the Ukraine, especially students of economics and medicine. When the refugees arrived, the family realised that the refugees from Ukraine were two Nigerian students studying in Kiev, who were fleeing […]
“Manterrupting’ – do we really still need to talk about it?
Manterrupting is a phenomenon that has been described and publicised for many years now. It has been explored, ridiculed, caricatured, dissected and analysed for many years. Just by searching for the hashtag on social networks, hundreds of examples, researches, articles illustrating it come up… so why talk about it again? Marianne is a young executive […]
Unconscious Bias and the performance management and development process
This week for our blogpost on bias we are not going to talk about a single bias but, as we have already done on climate change, we will take a cluster of biases, in particular some of those that impact performance management. Innovations in this area have been taking place regularly in recent years, in […]
