Most people think DEI is a nice-to-have for their organizations — and they’re often one of the first programs to go in recessive periods. But DEI is not only a way to keep your best people and ideas and support your bottom-line, it’s actually non-negotiable for employees. And it influences their decisions around who they work for and the type of performance they will give while they’re there. In this episode, we’ll be talking about some of the findings from a virtual roundtable we hosted with DE...
Jun 09, 2023•15 min•Season 1Ep. 110
Regardless of where you fall on the political spectrum, activism and DEI work are actually extensions of one another. For us at #TeamIIP, we know that historically excluded or marginalized groups simply *can’t* check their identities at the door when entering a professional workplace. To those we’ve spoken with and worked alongside, DEI is not just about fighting for equal opportunities in the workplace — it's about their lives and their livelihood. But that doesn’t mean that implementing DEI po...
May 12, 2023•37 min•Season 1Ep. 109
With a recessive period upon us, we’ve witnessed a growing trend of corporate leaders (particularly in the tech industry) embracing “bossism”: a leadership style that emphasizes a top-down approach to management. Sadly, that means the first programs on the chopping block are viewed as the nice-to-haves, including the DEI initiatives that many pledged to uphold following George Floyd’s murder. It also means that the people these programs were aimed at supporting are also at risk, at a time when e...
Apr 14, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Often when we discuss supporting women in the workplace, the conversation immediately turns to maternity leave and motherhood. But more millennials and Gen Zers are choosing to be child-free by choice. This poses a challenge for employers to be more creative about how they approach supporting women’s ability to achieve and advance in the workplace — beyond simply offering maternity leave and family planning. Rather than associating women with the gender role of childbirth, we need to be more int...
Mar 24, 2023•28 min•Season 1Ep. 107
March is officially the start of International Women’s Month. But as our latest episode goes live today — do women really have something to celebrate? Considering the uphill battle women face in their personal and professional lives? And considering how gender equity in the workplace seems to be backsliding? In fact, according to LeanIn.Org & McKinsey’s 2022 Women in the Workplace Report, for every woman at the director level who gets promoted to the next level, two women directors are choos...
Mar 10, 2023•24 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Meta. Netflix. Amazon. Spotify. Google. We’ve been watching as some of the biggest names in tech have implemented mass layoffs for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic began. And while it’s easy to look at the headlines in numbers, there is a very human cost that our teams face. Both for those who are laid off and those who are left behind. In the wake of these layoffs, how do organizations maintain employee morale for those left behind? Especially when everyone’s now working in a distribu...
Feb 24, 2023•21 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Quiet quitting was the buzzword of 2022. And although 2023 has barely begun, yet another phrase has surfaced as a potential solution: quiet hiring. Essentially, quiet hiring leans more toward developing the talent already within an organization or seeking specialists in the form of external contractors — instead of hiring and training new personnel. But in the wake of many organizations restructuring, downsizing or laying off teams — what could quiet hiring actually look like for your company? C...
Feb 10, 2023•26 min•Season 1Ep. 104
Work culture used to be defined by shared physical spaces. Now it’s about the people, the ideas, shared values and the behaviors you model. Almost three years after the pandemic started, work culture continues to evolve and shift. With so much going on in the world, your team has become your constant as a proxy for the organization you work for. Which means the line between personal and professional has become increasingly blurred for a distributed workforce. For those from historically marginal...
Jan 27, 2023•20 min•Season 1Ep. 103
It’s hard to ignore the pandemic's impact on the increase of distributed workplaces, whether companies chose to institute hybrid or fully-remote work. But while remote-first workplaces have offered many benefits for both employers and employees, they've also brought challenges to teams’ connectivity, collaboration, and psychological safety. As we head into 2023, organizations now face a new challenge: with an uncertain economy and labor market, they have to set up a standard for flexible work in...
Jan 13, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 102
If 2021 was all about the Great Resignation, 2022 has been all about Quiet Quitting. While they may sound like polar opposites, they actually do have a lot in common: both movements are about expressing a desire for our workforce to be valued, heard and supported. With that in mind, what do companies need to focus on in 2023 to ensure that they continue to recruit and retain the best talent? Team IIP is also excited to announce the release of our 2023 whitepaper on the Future of Work Culture for...
Dec 16, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 101
The Inclusion in Progress podcast started in 2019 as a way for DEI Consultant, Kay Fabella, to share her thoughts and insights with others — and now Inclusion in Progress is now a team that spans EMEA, APAC and the Americas! This Thanksgiving weekend, Team IIP is honoring the spirit of gratitude, reflecting on the past year on how far we have come as a company, and our growth as individuals and as a team. We also want to celebrate hitting 100 podcast episodes and three years of the podcast, whic...
Nov 25, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 100
The workplace trend that has caught everyone’s attention as we move into a time of recession is called Quiet Quitting. This phenomenon has posed a problem for companies because not only are they seeing their employees demotivated to take initiative, but they are experiencing the outright resistance to take on any work that their teams feel are out of their scope of work. Research from Dr. Timothy Clark has led us here at Inclusion in Progress to believe, however, that being more intentional abou...
Nov 11, 2022•22 min•Season 1Ep. 99
Is company culture really dying? Here at Inclusion in Progress, we believe that company culture is shifting, changing and evolving into something it has never been before post-pandemic – and will continue to do so for years to come. With remote and hybrid work environments becoming more common for organizations, it can seem like organizations are struggling to establish buy-in and retain talent due to the challenges of not having everyone in the same physical environment. Thought leaders like Ma...
Oct 28, 2022•20 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Do hybrid working models actually support equity and inclusion? Have companies been more successful as a result of moving to hybrid working models? Is the push to get workers back into the office warranted? There are a lot of questions coming to the surface about what organizations should be doing in regards to their work culture and shifting employee expectations. As companies examine whether or not to go more remote, or get their people face to face again, Spotify, Dropbox and Quora are exampl...
Oct 14, 2022•17 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Today's episode is timely, because it's all about hidden biases that we might see in a fully remote work or hybrid work environment. We’re going over the things that get in the way of building positive working relationships with one another. Now this is a conversation the Inclusion in Progress team has often because we, too, have to check our own biases regularly when it comes to working with one another across EMEA, APAC and the Americas. We also know, from working with our client partners, tha...
Sep 30, 2022•23 min•Season 1Ep. 96
For today's episode, we're diving into what we've seen as the number one barrier to remote teams being truly effective: That’s risk. More specifically, risk tolerance. We've seen this on our team, and we've seen it for the client partners that we've consulted with from all over the world. With all of the challenges that companies are facing right now. It's critical that teams continue to have space to share their best ideas with one another. For a team to innovate, you need to be able to solve p...
Sep 16, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Today’s episode addresses a very important question: What does diversity and inclusion look like when it intersects with the remote work conversation for companies? This conversation has a few different components to think about, as it leads to more questions such as: is it necessary to know who a person is outside of the work environment in order to create a psychologically safe workplace? What are some of the work preferences that members of your team have, and are you willing to be accommodat...
Aug 26, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Hybrid or fully distributed teams need to work even harder to find a rhythm together than teams who share an office or coworking space. Remote teams still have to meet their objectives, , find ways to collaborate as a group, and innovate in partnership with one another. In this episode, Inclusion in Progress is going to be diving into the number one thing that remote teams need to work effectively and feel included at work. As a fully remote team that is comfortable gathering data across culture...
Aug 12, 2022•24 min•Season 1Ep. 93
The quest to create a more diverse, inclusive and accepting organization is an ongoing process that requires attention and effort daily. DEI work is also the kind of thing that requires emotional stamina, the ability to hold space while others grow around us, and also the ability to compassionately, realistically challenge our own biases in order to truly create safe environments where people can thrive and give their best at work. But all too often, the people tasked with providing psychologica...
Jun 24, 2022•31 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Shame is said to be one of the pillars of dehumanization. And yet it has been deployed in so many ways to control and move people to act, that the negative ramifications of it can be felt through generations — and also within organizations. As companies navigate multiple generations, cultures, identities and lived experiences in the workplace, it’s becoming increasingly challenging to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard, respected, represented, and ultimately cared for. But the demand to see i...
Jun 03, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 91
Burnout becoming more common among professionals in different industries, but diversity and inclusion practitioners in particular seem to experience it at higher rates. With so many factors at play within the role of a DEI professional, it’s not surprising that so many of us doing this work feel drained, overwhelmed or even helpless sometimes. But what people may not have a clear understanding of is why diversity and inclusion practitioners experience burnout so often and so severely. On today’s...
May 20, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 90
In this episode of Inclusion in Progress, we’re dissecting what success looks like for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion as an industry. What should we be looking at as DEI facilitators, consultants and practitioners? What milestones or benchmarks should we be measured against or compared to? How can the organizations that hire us and put their trust in us to bring change to their environment obtain data or proof that what we’re doing is working? Those are just a few of the many questions we dive ...
May 06, 2022•44 min•Season 1Ep. 89
In this episode of Inclusion in Progress, we take a moment to discuss one of the forgotten and often overlooked facets of diversity and inclusion: faith. Kay takes us through her thought process and into the realm of religion and spiritual beliefs as they are—and could be— within the workplace, and where it fits into this season’s theme of psychological safety at work. Religion has been included in conversations surrounding diversity and inclusion in the past, and organizations have made many st...
Apr 15, 2022•39 min•Season 1Ep. 88
In this episode of Inclusion in Progress, we will be discussing psychological safety and what it means for you and your team in the workplace. Kay will take a deep dive into the definition of psychological safety, its significance highlighted by the pandemic, and how it helps to make your workplace a more inclusive and welcoming space for all. Psychological safety can be hugely beneficial for teams and leaders everywhere to foster in order to make your workplace more accommodating for everyone, ...
Apr 01, 2022•38 min•Season 1Ep. 87
In this episode of Inclusion in Progress, we will be exploring all the ways that we can make our workplaces truly family friendly, more accommodating and inclusive spaces for ALL caregivers. Today we will be delving into the subject of family, how the very definition of family is changing in today’s rapidly evolving world, and how that affects whether or not our employees fall under the caregiver category. We will delve deeply into why EAPs or Employee Assistance Plans need to be updated to incl...
Mar 18, 2022•27 min•Season 1Ep. 86
In honor of International Women’s Day, Kay Fabella will be hosting a variety of subject matter experts to uncover real experiences of women at work on the Inclusion in Progress podcast. Each guest will cover different topics of concern for women in the workplace: from bias towards trans women, gender equity and cultural identity, the gender pay gap, as well as miscarriage, fertility loss and menopause. This episode covers a wide range of things that women are facing every day at work, and how or...
Mar 04, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 85
Welcome back to another episode of the Inclusion in Progress Podcast with your host, Kay Fabella! Today Kay will be discussing the key points to having healthy work-life boundaries. She will be going over the five ways to create your own personal boundaries in the workplace and your everyday life that will help to ensure your well-being and your mental health, as well as your professional performance and success. Each individual has a different story, with different needs and accommodations that...
Feb 18, 2022•36 min•Season 1Ep. 84
#083 - In this episode, Kay Fabella asks: are we all suffering from ADHD in a remote world? She shares her thoughts about our current mental states due to the blurred lines between life and work since the pandemic began. Kay discusses the harmful stigma around ADHD and how it is important to design remote workplaces to support both neurotypical and neurodivergent folks to contribute their best work. Finally, Kay gives ways you can support your remote teams who are struggling with neurodivergence...
Feb 04, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 83
#082 - In this episode, Kay Fabella discusses the impact of “work from anywhere” on teams’ mental health, and what organizations should consider when fostering inclusion. Kay discusses the potential mental health considerations for employees who choose to work from anywhere in the world, as she reflects on the past eight years as a remote business owner. She offers anecdotes that highlight the challenges of isolation and relocation burnout on remote workers. Finally, Kay shares strategies compan...
Jan 21, 2022•28 min•Season 1Ep. 82
#081 - In this episode, Kay Fabella shares how to spot signs of burnout in a remote team before it happens, based on her experience as a remote worker and now running a fully remote team at Inclusion in Progress, LLC. First, Kay defines burnout and some signs to be aware of when it comes to remote workers, as well as ideas for how to broach the conversation with your teams when you suspect they’re on the verge of burnout. Finally, Kay discusses what your team culture needs to help prevent or mit...
Jan 07, 2022•26 min•Season 1Ep. 81
