May 13, 2021

Preventing an “Us vs Them” workspace through inclusion

20 minutes

Laura Kriska is an internationally recognized expert, with over 30 years of experience in cross-cultural relationships and providing that to help organizations bridge gaps in diverse workplaces. Early in her career, she worked for a large Japanese corporation, where she got first-hand experience in what it was like to be an outsider of what she calls a company’s “home team”. From that experience, and throughout her career, she developed strategies to help create inclusion and has written all about the “us versus them'' dynamic in her book, The Business of We. To learn more, connect with Laura, and order her book, you can find her on LinkedIn or at her website, https://www.laurakriska.com/.

Topics In This Episode

The dynamics that are created in department mandates

Unspoken relationships and how they play out in the workplace

How to identify unspoken dynamics

Making changes before it’s too late

Examples of when “us versus them” is ok in an organization

The “us versus them” self-assessment: https://www.laurakriska.com/assessment

Connect

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/laura-kriska-she-her-0a93902a

Website: https://www.laurakriska.com/

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