Sherri Fella: Make fear, excitement your friends to help you grow
Every step is an opportunity to learn and to celebrate. It is an opportunity to fall and get back up again.
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Hate crimes law advocates not fond of bill that doesn’t specify protected classes
Indiana Forward, a group pushing for hate crimes legislation, said the law must include a comprehensive list of protected classes.
Sexual harassment proposal offers new lawmaker-intern relationship rules
The Legislative Council voted in November to recommend the Indiana General Assembly adopt the new policy, which adds a definition of sexual harassment to the ethical standards for lawmakers.
Maggie Phelps: Let’s become better-quality volunteers
People who volunteer consistently over time and commit long term are far more valuable to an organization than those who engage one time or on a short-term basis.
Tech veteran Qualls leaves Eleven Fifty Academy to launch Purpose.ly
The startup, which has been operating under the radar for several months, aims to connect companies and workers who share a common mission or purpose.
Bob Wilson: Why gender balance isn’t working (and what to do about it)
Things need to change. Women need to be where decisions are made. Why? They think differently than men.
Kristen Cooper: First-time entrepreneurs often make this costly mistake
When you take the time to understand how other people perceive a problem, you will validate some of your own assumptions and disprove others.
Westerhaus-Renfrow: Lesson from losing Amazon—attract more millennials
Indianapolis needs to attract out-of-state millennials. And this needs to happen quickly. Perhaps the best starting point for shifting workforce demographics is to look around and see which states are successfully attracting millennials.
Rising fear among Asians leads Eli Lilly to rethink employee groups
New employees at Eli Lilly and Co. get a letter encouraging them to join one of the pharmaceutical firm’s affinity groups. There’s one for African Americans, one for Latino employees—and four for Asians.
Sherri Fella: Your ‘shadow’ sets the tone for your team
Have you considered lately what kind of shadow you are casting? Is it light or dark? Broad or narrow? Consistent or erratic? Inclusive or exclusive? Perhaps you don’t even know.
Another gay Roncalli counselor alleges discrimination at school
A 39-year employee filed a discrimination charge Friday with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission against Roncalli High School.
Liz Malatestinic: How not to be ‘ghosted’ by new or potential hires
The possibility of multiple employment opportunities can certainly explain why a candidate might change his or her mind about accepting a particular job, but it doesn’t explain why that person doesn’t have the courtesy to call and explain.
Maggie Phelps: Taking moment to play is not waste of work time
Plenty of research tells us play is a beneficial, if not crucial, part of an organization’s culture.
Janitor uprising highlights tensions over outsourcing
Nearly 650 Indianapolis-area janitors represented by the Service Employees International Union work for just eight firms that clean downtown office buildings.
Michael Blickman: Beware of using artificial intelligence in hiring
A significant problem with using AI in the hiring process is the prospect that the data used by the computer is implicitly biased and that unlawful discrimination will result.
Kristen Cooper: How do venture capital tax credits help startups in Indiana?
The startup community has grown so substantially over the last 14 years, it’s probably time to increase the venture investment tax credit ceiling to about $20 million.
Charlotte Westerhaus-Renfrow: How to successfully give constructive feedback
Effective feedback is imperative to helping a workplace thrive—whether by increasing and maintaining quality performance from employees, improving flaws, helping with new skills, or creating a growth mindset in employees.
Liz Malatestinic: Think you’re great at multitasking? Think again
While we may feel better about attacking a variety of tasks, we actually lose a lot of productivity—some estimate as much as 40 percent—in the act of switching gears from one thought process to another.
Michael Blickman: The rules about employees, the workplace and social media
Employees feel more emboldened than ever to use social media to make disparaging comments about co-workers, their employers and even their customers.
Older CEOs keeping their jobs longer thanks to bull market
As the U.S. enters the ninth year of economic recovery, big company CEOs are, on average, as old as they’ve been in at least 17 years, according to a study released Wednesday.