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10 Ways to Operationalize Your Diversity Process

PRISM White Paper

Little debate remains for the business case for diversity. Operating domestically or globally, all enterprises are facing changes that require innovative ways to maximize the opportunities created by the changes, while transforming the challenges into strengths that will lead to competitive advantage. The diversity process is one strategy or lever for winning in the workplace and the marketplace.
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Avoiding Pitfalls - Use a Whole System Approach

HR.com

Too often, organizations fall into the trap of searching for the solution in one piece of their process while ignoring the remaining components of the total process. Joe Santana, Director of Diversity for Siemens Corporation expands on this concept.
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From Vision to Implementation - Instituting Your Diversity Process

Institute for Diversity in Health Management

Many organizations make the case for diversity, obtain senior management support, publish their mission and vision statements and then must deliver on their diversity strategies. In this latest issue of Bridges located on pages 4 and 5, PRISM's President & CEO, Linda Stokes offers ten tips on creating a robust, successful and sustainable initiative.
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Managing Remote Cross-Cultural Teamwork

CIO Information Network

Siemens Business Service Executive and PRISM client, Joe Santana states that there are some big challenges to being part of a global partnership.
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Encouraging Work-Life Balance Can Boost Your Bottom Line

American Management Association

Siemens Business Service Executive and PRISM client, Joe Santana writes that companies who support work-life balance practices will come out on top.
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Help Your Company Regain Its Energy and Balance and Boost Your Bottom-Line

HR.com

Siemens Business Service Executive and PRISM client, Joe Santana states that organizations that adopt best practices that support maximum results through effective work-life integration and personal energy management, will possess a huge competitive advantage.
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Harnessing the Full Potential of a Diverse Workforce

TechRepublic

Companies that have managers who are equipped to successfully leverage the distinct and rich talents and skills and knowledge of all employees will not only avoid drains on profitability, they will actually attain a number of strategic benefits.
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Managing Successfully in Today's Diverse Workplace

TechRepublic

The ability to manage within the framework of a diverse workplace today is rapidly becoming as much of a key success requirement as knowing how to manage projects.
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A Process for Strategically Leveraging Diversity

Profiles in Diversity Journal

"Diversity is not a strategic process when it is a series of piecemeal activities", writes PRISM's President & CEO, Linda H. Stokes. In this article, she introduces PRISM's six-step Gap-Model approach to strategically leveraging diversity.
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Creating Compelling Conversations - Driving Diversity Changes with Manager-Led Discussions

Profiles in Diversity Journal

PRISM's President & CEO, Linda H. Stokes discusses the business case for utilizing managers and supervisors to drive diversity through the organization. She introduces a tool - the PRISM Diversity Discussion StartersTM - that provides organizations with a complete series of powerful diversity conversations that lead to changes and team actions that drive real results.
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Getting Employees On Board

Profiles in Diversity Journal 

PRISM's President & CEO, Linda H. Stokes presents her article - Getting Employees On Board. She writes that most organizations fail to provide an effective diversity communication and learning process that creates an immediate and lasting result. She further relates how PRISM combined their 4-Point Diversity Communication and Learning Model to Knowledge Map technology and created the innovative diversity communication and training tool the On Board with Diversity Knowledge MapTM.
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Measurement as a Critical Component of your Organization's Diversity Process

Institute for Diversity in Health Management

PRISM's President & CEO, Linda H. Stokes and Senior Consultant Dr. Mickey R. Dansby write about leveraging diversity through a gap analysis process.
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Piecemeal Diversity: Avoiding the Trap

Profiles in Diversity Journal

PRISM's President & CEO, Linda H. Stokes presents her - Piecemeal Diversity: Avoiding the Trap. In providing her 2001 Linkage Diversity Conference Survey results and analysis, she observes "diversity professionals from all over cite piecemeal diversity initiatives as the most frustrating impediment to aligning diversity process with their organization's business strategies".
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From the Top: Executive Sessions Offer Leaders A New Look at Their Firms

DiversityInc.com

Diversity strategies and corporate business objectives must be fully aligned for success. Putting the two together only works if the symbiosis is directed by top management. Learn what Linda H. Stokes, President & CEO did when her company polled diversity professionals at a recent national diversity conference.
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The Seven Deadly Sins in Diversity Measurement

Profiles in Diversity Journal

PRISM's Senior Consultant, Dr. Mickey Dansby presents - The Seven Deadly Sins in Diversity Measurement. "After many years of assessing and measuring diversity progress in the military and large corporations," Dr. Dansby writes, "I concluded that most diversity measurement programs are pretty much an afterthought, and consequently may not be given much thought at all".
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