Project Management and Workplace Respect

I'm humbled to receive a 2017 Editor's Choice Award from the PM World Journal for my article on Diversity Intelligence.

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The Gulf Business Magazine published an article I wrote titled "Workplace Happiness - Using Diversity to Create Community"

The article applies to project teams and project management environments. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Come and join me at a project management conference – NYC. Excited to be presenting at the Project Summit Business Analyst World Conference in New York City on December 6th. Hope to meet some project managers and business analysts to talk about Project Management Bullying.

It’s official – Millennials now make up the majority of the Canadian workforce. This statistic is likely popping up all over the world. 

So what does this mean for recruiters? Well, the task of sourcing and hiring millennial talent requires a drastically different approach than past generations. The reality is that Gen Y is not from another planet. They want what anybody wants in a career: security, variety, challenging work – they are just looking for it in a different way. 

This interesting article provides 3 tips to attract Millennial talent to your projects and workplace. 

What tips do you have?

Forbes recently released Fostering Innovation Through a Diverse Workforce. The paper is based on an exclusive survey of 321 executives at large global enterprises ($500 million-plus in annual revenues). All respondents had direct responsibility or oversight for their companies’ diversity and inclusion programs.g

One of the key findings is that, for global companies, diversity is no longer simply a matter of creating a heterogeneous workforce, but using that workforce to innovate and give it a competitive advantage in the marketplace. And as companies compete on a global scale, diversity and inclusion frequently have to shift, as different markets and different cultures have varied definitions of what diversity means.

What do you think?