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Having fun at work is okay, but playing to stereotypes - even when it’s meant as just a joke - isn’t funny. It could be perceived as ridicule, and if that happens, it could be seen as creating a hostile environment.

Creating a welcoming and supportive healthcare environment for all LGBTQ patients is a critical part of patient-centered care. Getting to know your patients, including aspects of their sexual and gender identity, behavior, and desires is key to providing quality care.

In America, individual rights are often valued over the rights of society, but what many Westerners do not realize is that more than two thirds of the world’s population comes from cultures that value collective rights over the rights of an individual.

Creating an inclusive team environment that values diversity helps you achieve your organization’s goals – both cultural and financial! Diversity awareness and inclusion means recognizing and responding to the needs of various groups within the workforce to improve working relationships.

Millennials share some characteristics that set them apart. Understanding how these core characteristics influence their behavior and who they are will help you recruit, engage, and retain this workforce.

Diversity has to do with human differences. So a lot of times when people say “diversity” they really mean is race or gender or ethnicity. Diversity is much more than that – it’s any point of difference.

It’s often easy to see other human beings as different if you look at them through the “We – Them” mindset. This depersonalizes people.

No matter what the words we say, our actual communication is influenced by our expression, gestures and tone of voice. In fact, research as shown that only a small percentage of the brain processes verbal communication.

Exclusive behaviors in the workplace are any behaviors that make an employee feel like they are not a part of the group in which they belong.

Your success is related to working effectively with your team. While new people bring unknowns, you can be a catalyst for building on team strengths.