Make your female colleagues feel GREAT this International Women’s Day by sending her a card. Not any old card, but a card with clout! Make a pledge, to ensure work life is fair and equal for all. This years theme is #eachforequal. Let’s all play our part. We can actively choose to challenge stereotypes, fight bias, broaden perceptions, improve situations and celebrate women’s achievements. Below are 9 congratulatory cards you can send to the women you know. All for FREE. Each card contains an action you can start immediately. Send different cards to different women or send them ..read more

“We’re NOT looking for the best person for the job. We ARE looking for [pause] err, someone like me” A Hiring Truth A confronting comment. One you maybe thinking doesn’t apply to you – of course you want to hire the best person for the job. Yet, the odds of actually achieving this is no better than chance. Whether you’re doing it internally or outsourcing some or all of the process. It’s even got a name – The Myth of Merit. You’ll find well meaning Australian business leaders advising you to take action and no shortage of advice here and here about how to overcome it. But progres ..read more

“We’re not looking for the best person for the job. Anyone familiar will do. And for that we’ll invest tens of thousands of dollars to find and hire them” These comments might sound outlandish – no respecting employer would knowingly settle for so little from the hiring process. Yet, it’s all you can expect from the traditional recruitment process – whether you’re doing it internally or outsourcing some or all of the process. That is, a recruitment process where you advertise on the same job boards or channels. Just because you always have. Yet hope for a different result.  And whe ..read more

People’s names are one of the sweetest sounds that people hear. Best to get it right. How would you pronounce the last name Wesolowshki? Maybe Wahzuhlooski? Even Wazinski? or more accurately Wes-oh-LAU-skee? Maybe for an anglophile like me, this is a little easier ‘chess-toe-HOW-ski’ Mispronouncing, misspelling, misinterpreting or misjudging a person’s name is a surefire way to sour any relationship. Serena put up with a manager calling her Sabrina for years. She’d point out the error, the manager duly apologised, but the next time he was in town, he’d still call her Sabrina. Whilst t ..read more

Hear Yvonne Bowyer presenting the ‘Why for D&I’ at an Executive Education, University of Adelaide Open Day. The Business Case For Diversity & Inclusion, University of Adelaide ..read more

Can you hear this silent GIF? Do you hear the THUD as the transmission tower jumps the cable? It is possible to hear ‘motion’. And you can ‘hear’ with your eyes. It’s called the McGurk Effect. People hear the same sound differently when it’s dubbed with a face articulating another sound. Audio of ba ba, dubbed with a video of fa, fa, gets inferred as fa fa. What you’re seeing clashes with what you’re hearing. What you see overrides what you hear. But once we close our eyes we hear the sound that it is (try it). Ironically even when we know the illusion, it doesn’t make ..read more