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Inclusion starts with empathy

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To mark National Inclusion Week 2024, Jack Mizel explores why empathy is the key foundation block to building an inclusive organisation.

Asda follows Next’s pay equity battle: The claims shaking up retail

Employment partner Jon Heuvel examines recent equal pay cases, in light of Asda recently hitting the headlines for its own.

‘Playing the race card’: What underpins a proof-seeking leader?

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The challenge of the intangible nature of diversity, equity and inclusion, and how we push past never knowing the ‘truth’.

How to address diversity, equity and inclusion backlash

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Workplace backlash to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is nothing new. But it remains an ongoing barrier to progressive organisations. Here, Professor Tom Calvard outlines two ways for HR to approach this complex challenge.

How to build an inclusive wellbeing programme

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For NIW 2024, Joanne Swann from Workplace Wellbeing Professional guides leaders ready to make meaningful impact through an inclusive wellbeing programme.

#ImpactMatters: Four top players in workplace diversity and inclusion

Many organisations struggle to deliver impact on their diversity and inclusion efforts. But not these four companies.

A pale, male – hopefully not stale – EDI tale

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Andrew Loveless provides a ‘pale, male’ (hopefully not stale) EDI leadership perspective – revisited three years on.

Whose lived experience is more important?

For National Inclusion Week 2024 (23-29 September), our leadership columnist Judith Germain examines the importance of accepting diverse lived experiences in the workplace.

Labour’s Menopause Action Plan: Why small companies should keep up or get left behind

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Under Labour’s ‘Plan to Make Work Pay’, firms with 250+ staff will soon need to produce Menopause Action Plans. But should smaller companies follow suit?

Five barriers to good listening habits

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Are you oblivious to your poor listening skills? Dani Bacon and Garin Rouch of Distinction Business Consulting share overlooked barriers to good listening habits and how to remove them.

How to foster better collaboration within teams

Great teams are the mechanism to create extraordinary value, but that potential is only realised with shared clarity on how ‘greatness’ is lived and breathed.

Will you let them fire the doorman?

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Human experiences are under threat from our obsessions with efficiency, cost, and, now, AI. As the world becomes lost in these imperatives, HR must step up and work across the boardroom to show how the doorman exists not merely to open doors, but to create value that lasts.