Creating an inclusive work environment starts with simple actions, like getting to know the people around you – beginning with their preferred names.

This blog provides 10 practical tips for fostering workplace inclusivity and respect for colleagues who have diverse names.

While everyone deserves a fair chance to reach their full potential in their career, the playing field is not level.

There are practical approaches that we can all adopt to reduce hiring biases and ensure partiality and fairness for all.

We may appreciate the benefits of multiculturalism in our communities, but in our workplaces, hiring still tends to be biased to “sameness”.

As a leader, a reset is needed to support your team to adopt more inclusive hiring practices that level the playing field for qualified newcomers and increase your access to a larger pool of skilled talent.

Having a diversity and inclusion mandate, strategies and training programs are all fantastic. But your team may need a little nudge for long lasting change. 

This post suggest small actions that can have a real impact on helping to make real progress on workplace diversity, inclusion and belonging for your team.

In recognition of the UN’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, we’ve highlighted Four Black organizations standing up in support of anti-racism in Canada.