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We at Mindhatch deeply believe that diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are essential to workplace innovation and creativity. Impactful diversity and equity work requires us to center the voices of marginalized people and make a lifelong commitment to listening, empathy, unlearning, and re-learning. In this spirit, Mindhatch posed the following questions to 5 leading diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) experts.
With National Fun at Work Day, your company has the opportunity to incorporate more play into remote work—which is essential. Here are three reasons why.
Though fostering true Diversity, Inclusion and Equity can be challenging, and each of these pillars addresses a unique yet interrelated goal, there are ways to avoid and transform policies that merely tokenize and leverage the innovative potential diversity gives your business.
An abundance mindset will make your team more collaborative and innovative by reframing challenges as opportunities and limitations as possibilities.
The constraints of our new remote-only work from home lives present some really great opportunities. To get you started, we’ve come up with several creative and effective ways to create and maintain a great company culture from a distance.
Given the stress everyone is under and the uncertainty of what lies ahead, it’s never been more important to also approach your remote meetings and collaborations from a human-centered, people-first mindset. Breaks, when strategically used and planned for in advance, can be an active space for rejuvenation and human-centered collaboration. Here are some ideas we have for how you can bring a little empathy, connectedness, and even lightheartedness to your remote team work.
Learn the Mindhatch approach to innovation to avoid falling in to the “doing more with less” trap. Follow our steps to start seeing innovation as a way of creating new value and possibilities, not merely extracting incremental value.
So, you’ve just done an improv workshop with your team and are asking yourself the million-dollar question of “Now what? How do I take this fun, seemingly one-time thing I did with my team and really make its effects last?” The good news is there is plenty you can do to continue to build and sustain an improv culture within your organization.
Without engaged employees, a company won’t be as successful as it could be. We need to break out of the default paradigms of human resources and start designing for the end-to-end employee experience. Why? Because a better employee experience leads to improved employee engagement.
We know what your boss is thinking. The idea of using improv for business sounds as outlandish as using capoeira for consulting or fencing for finance. Your company is less like “Whose Line is it Anyway?” and more like “Whose Job is on the Line Anyway?”
