159. Creating the Right Culture for Inclusion

This 4-part series focuses on how we can take a genuine approach to D&I in our workplaces, and this week's focus is on how to create the right culture for inclusion. Culture can be simply described as 'how we do things around here' and can make or break someone's experience at work in seconds. An organisation may claim to be inclusive and welcome diversity, but its the everyday interactions - e.g. an eye roll, a thoughtless comment, or ignoring someone in a meeting - that makes that claim real or not. We are thrilled to be joined by HR D&I expert Kate Maddison-Greenwell who consults with organisations who want to really create a thriving and inclusive culture together. It is not just an HR thing, this is an everyone thing and Kate shares her advice on how to make work cultures more inclusive in practice. Particularly relevant for those organisations who are shifting away from 'working from home as the default' towards a more hybrid model. Inclusion is a challenge for many organisations but like all challenges, the solutions come from having good relationships and being able to communicate and work these things out out together. Kate Maddison-Greenwell runs People Efficient and their website www.peopleefficient.co.uk contains lots of resources that bring an agile approach to HR. Kate can be contacted via her LinkedIn profile LinkedIn.com/in/katemg which is where you can find her brilliant articles that we reference in this episode. Want a deeper dive? Check out our relevant episodes:Ep. 137 Keeping Well in a Corporate with guest Lindsey Thompson-WrightEp. 116 Relationships Last Longer Than EmailsEp. 102 Summer School: T is for TeamshipEp. 87 Team Resilience - Stronger Together