diversity – Resource Library

The Return to the Office should be named the Organizational Change Management Project of the Year because everyone is trying to figure out how to get people to come back into the workplace after two years of remote work. In addition to the standard challenges of any change management effort, this one is complicated by success as a distinguishing factor: in most cases, we made it work.

Employees grumble that their employer doesn’t take enough of an interest in their career development. Meanwhile, the organization is wishing that employees would take more responsibility for their careers. Both feel as though their points are valid. How can we meet in the middle?

Organizations have a responsibility to ensure that resources and equitable processes are in place for employees to grow in their roles and learn new skills. That is a standard cost of doing business.

There’s an elephant in our conference rooms regarding race.
It has to do with the fact that we went from an era of color blindness to a moment of racial consciousness in what felt like a few sleep cycles after George Floyd’s killing. Like a dam, the buildup of events and reactions to people’s frustration with the systems that perpetuated the killings of so many Black men and women were pushed to fullness and it burst. To many of those who had not been paying attention, it felt sudden—as if a critical mass of people woke up one morning with a heightened level of racial consciousness, wanting what was necessary to incite change—politically, in day-to-day events, and in places where that change had not been asked of people before: at work.

OPM’s Chief Diversity Officers Executive Council held their first meeting on September 29th, 2022, to work on developing a strategy, a move required by the previous year’s executive order. President Biden issued the Executive Order in June of 2021, requiring Federal agencies to expand training on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We want to ensure that every federal employee receives this training.

On Tuesday, February 23, 2021, Management Concepts sponsored a panel discussion entitled, It Starts with Us: Forging the Future of Federal Leadership. The event was hosted in partnership with the Senior Executives Association, the African American Federal Executive Association, and Executive Women in Government.

Diversity is an essential characteristic for building innovative organizations and teams within those organizations. In federal government teams, innovation has always rested, in great part, on the diversity of the team fostering it.

On the third Monday of January, we are called on to remember civil rights activist and Baptist minister, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and reflect upon how, in a mere 39 years, his presence changed the world forever. His passion for equality, diversity, and education continues to resonate among us. Even in a divided America, the inspiring emotional intelligence that was conveyed through Dr. King’s speeches leaves me with a warm feeling of inclusion.

Management Concepts was a proud sponsor for the third year in a row for the 48th Federally Employed Women’s (FEW) National Training Program (NTP) held in New Orleans, Louisiana, from July 17-20, 2017. This year’s conference theme was “Investing in Our Future.”

The week was packed with practical training sessions, motivational keynote speakers, thought-provoking panels, and many opportunities to meet a diverse group of over 1,200 attendees from all over the country seeking professional development opportunities.

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