Sat.Jun 05, 2021

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Safe Space #8 – what can a manager do about racism at work?

The Management Centre

Welcome to the Safe Space – where managers can share their issues, and gain advice from top learning & development consultants. Here at =mc we encourage every participant we meet on our programmes to get in touch if they have specific issues they want to follow up on. From this we hear some common problems, issues, challenges, and worries. In this regular feature we share some of those challenges, and our advice, for dealing with them.

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Consulting 301

Alan Weiss

There’s a lot of truth in the consulting advice, “If it hurts when you do that, stop doing that. That will be $50,000.” (The last part is my own value-based addition.). Here’s a current version: “Any strategy you had in place pre-pandemic is no longer even vaguely relevant. I’ll help you develop a new one. That will be $100,000.” Rinse and repeat.

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The benefit of the doubt

Seth Godin Blog

It’s priceless. When we’re used to it, when it comes along as a result of nothing we did to earn it, we take it for granted. But when you don’t have it, it makes everything more difficult. The benefit of the doubt is what happens when instead of being skeptical, we’re inclined to believe. It’s when instead of defaulting to ignoring a stranger, we seek to engage with them.

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