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WDN digital news is your source for articles by expert contributors and acknowledged professionals in the field of workplace inclusion, as well as curated content relevant to the benefits diversity brings to strengthening a community. Last updated 4/23/20.
Community News
Local Author Publishes New Book on How to Be an Ally to the LGBTQ+ Communities
Local Author Publishes New Book on How to Be an Ally to the LGBTQ+ Communities
Local Author Publishes New Book on How to Be an Ally to the LGBTQ+ Communities
The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is loaded with innovative and useful tools for creating LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces and advocating for change. It will surely jump-start even the most tentative ally.
Rochester Business Journal Diversity Summit
Local Author Publishes New Book on How to Be an Ally to the LGBTQ+ Communities
Local Author Publishes New Book on How to Be an Ally to the LGBTQ+ Communities
3 Online Sessions June 16, June 30, & July 14 2020
Rochester Business Journal Diversity Summit
Due to Covid-19 and social distancing requirements
this event will be an online series in three sessions.
Member News
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Appoints Jennifer Lake as CEO
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Appoints Jennifer Lake as CEO
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Appoints Jennifer Lake as CEO
The Board of Directors of Goodwill of the Finger Lakes has appointed Jennifer Lake as chief executive officer, effective immediately. She replaces Dr. A. Gidget Hopf, who is retiring after 34 years.
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Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Appoints Jennifer Lake as CEO
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Appoints Jennifer Lake as CEO
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COVID-19 Member Resources
Goodwill of the Finger Lakes Appoints Jennifer Lake as CEO
COVID-19 Member Resources
Our members have developed great resources related to COVID-19 and the workplace that we wanted to share so we have included a new section dedicated to this key information and articles. We will continue to update this page regularly, so if you have additional resources, links or articles you wish to contribute or share, please email us.
Welcome New WDN Member
Welcome New WDN Member
Welcome New WDN Member
We are pleased to welcome Paychex to the Workforce Diversity Network! Paychex serves approximately 650,000 payroll clients across more than 100 locations and pays one out of every 12 American private sector employees.
Career Opportunities
Welcome New WDN Member
Welcome New WDN Member
Check out WDN Members' individual career sites for a list of current openings.
WDN Expert Contributor Articles
Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now
Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now
Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now
By Simma Lieberman
Expert Forum Contributor
We are in the midst of a disruptive crisis no matter how “positive thinking police” try to spin it. As the Covid-19 quarantine continues with people working from home, with little or no social interaction, some of your team members may start experiencing a deeper level of anxiety. No one knows when or how it will end or what the “new normal” will look like. That anxiety due to seemingly uncertain futures and not knowing how or when the crisis will end, can cause some people to panic, lose focus about their work and disengage from the team.
Getting People Back to Making Decisions After Covid-19
Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now
Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now
By Robert Wendover
Expert Forum Contributor
The past two months have been chaotic, to say the least. We have been ripped from our routines, sent home, and told to stay off the streets until further notice. Millions have had their incomes disrupted and their daily concentration destroyed by the ongoing uncertainty. And now, after weeks of this turbulence, we will be asked to return to
the previous routine, albeit with some significant changes.
To Sing or Not to Sing
Five Ways Leaders Can Reduce Anxiety and Prevent Panic Right Now
How to End the Generation War
By Steve Hanamura
Expert Forum Contributor
Shortly after I moved to Portland in 1980 a colleague, knowing my background with high school and college choirs, invited me to join the Choral Arts Ensemble, a forty-voice group that primarily sang classical music. Oddly enough we were invited to sing back up on a number with singer/songwriter Barry Manilow during his concert here in town. When we showed up for rehearsal the producer took one look at me and walked over to our director and said, "He can't sing."
How to End the Generation War
4 Books on Diversity & Leadership by LGBT Authors
How to End the Generation War
By Simma Lieberman
Expert Forum Contributor
I’ve been facilitating cross-generational dialogues for over ten years. I started them because I was tired of one-dimensional conversations filled with bias and wrong assumptions about people who were older or younger. After the first three sessions, it was clear to me that we have a lot to learn from each other. Cross-generational mentoring became an integral part of my inclusive leadership coaching process
4 Books on Diversity & Leadership by LGBT Authors
4 Books on Diversity & Leadership by LGBT Authors
4 Books on Diversity & Leadership by LGBT Authors
By Stan Kimer
Expert Forum Contributor
Over the past few years, I have read and written reviews of a diverse set of excellent books on diversity and leadership from 4 LGBT consultants who like me as Certified LGBT Business Enterprises through the National LGBT Chamber of Commerce. The four books I will summarize and review are: Divided We Stand – Racism in America from Jamestown to Trump,; How To Be an Inclusive Leader; Belonging at Work: Everyday Actions You Can Take To Cultivate an Inclusive Organization; Beyond the Rainbow.
Our thanks to Excellus, Starbridge and RTS for hosting our November, December and January meetings!
The November meeting topic was an overview of the Racial Equity & Justice Initiative (REJI) in Rochester, presented by Sashanna Mitchell, REJI Coordinator.
The December discussion was based on Frank Staropoli’s October 2019, blog, “In Their Own Words: What It’s Like….” which featured videos by Barunde Thurston and B.K. Irons, in which they presented their very different perspectives on the Black Experience in our country.
The January meeting focused on New York State 2020 Criminal Justice Reforms and participants reviewed two summaries of the case for and against the new criminal justice reform laws in New York State and then addressed four questions about them in small discussion groups of three.
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