September
September| 2021 news & updates
The Decency Issue
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Speaker Change Alert:
We have a last minute change of speakers for our September 24th Women in Leadership presentation. And the reason for the change is a perfect example of what it takes to be a woman leader and still maintain balance in your life. Venessa Harrison, our previously planned September speaker, has an unexpected early arrival of a grandchild that conflicts with our 9-24 WIL date, so she will be speaking with our group in November instead.
Susan Hitchcock, Advisory Board TLG & Founder of Women in Leadership has graciously agreed to fill in for the 9-24 session! Another example of women supporting other women and our need to multi-task and remain flexible! Love that we can share these real life examples of women choosing their priorities and helping each other to keep that balance. That is truly what Women in Leadership does so well. Women leading in the midst of real life!
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“My Time of 100% Flexibility: Life 3.0"
Featuring: Susan Hitchcock
Women in Leadership Signature Series
Friday, September 24, 8 - 10 am, Virtual
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If you don’t have the skillset of including people, you will lose people.
The price of not doing anything is greater than anything you are ever going to get. Period. Becoming IDEA Certified is an opportunity for you to help others in your organization to start moving in the direction of engagement, and to start feeling heard, seen, and understood. The IDEA Certification will give you the ability to change the narrative - helping your colleagues, teams, and your organization foster a healthy culture of inclusiveness.
The ROI on IDEA is clear. If you’re ready to become a professionally recognized diversity, equity, and inclusion ambassador, register for the IDEA Certification today! Sign up before Friday, October 29th and get up to 25% off your enrollment.
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Dr. Cherry Collier, Ph.D., MCC., Lead instructor & DEI expert
TLG/Personality Matters Inclusion, Diversity, Equity in Action (IDEA) Certification
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Calendar: Upcoming TLG Events
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Five Random Acts of Kindness |
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Five Random Acts of Kindness
Excerpt:
"Before I watched the attached YouTube clip which suggests one great thing we can all do - simply recognizing people for their contributions first thing every morning BEFORE EMAIL (now that’s hard!!), I actually started looking around to see how I could commit a random act. "
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Give Credit Where Credit is Due - From Tino's Linked In For What It's Worth Series
Are you giving others credit where credit is due? TLG President & CEO Tino Mantella shares the importance of giving credit where credit is due, and even giving yourself LESS credit in order to give others more.
Watch the full episode of For What It’s Worth on YouTube.
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by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
Captain Abrashoff worked through the ranks of the Navy to eventually become the Commander of the USS Benfold. It wasn’t a meteoric rise and he had bumps along the way. He was very open about not being the greatest athlete, playing football for Navy and he was far from the best student at the Naval Academy.
It was clear that he was a student of leadership, spending the extra hours to observe the good and the bad. When he got his chance to take command he was ready. He took a ship and it’s crew that were ranked near the bottom and shaped them into the best. The number one lesson the Captain relays, in my opinion, is he respected his crew and he listened to them. They in turn responded by taking ownership. Respect and “decency” go hand in hand.
Tino
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Tino's Featured Product for September: |
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Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, in Action Certification |
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If you are:
· Passionate about leading change.
· Looking to help your organization foster a more diverse and inclusive workplace.
· Seeking professional recognition.
· Wanting to lead or be a part of courageous conversations.
· Desiring a deeper understanding of complex diversity topics and issues.
· Eligible for SHRM and/or ICF CCE credits.
Our six-month IDEA Certification program is for YOU. Earn professional recognition while gaining the tools to help your colleagues, team, and organization build a more inclusive and diverse workplace. Enroll today and save up to 25%!
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Decent People Make Great Leaders |
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Founder & Host Emerita Women in Leadership
Excerpt:
"When I think of (decency)... the best leader I ever worked for immediately comes to mind. Richard K. (Dick) Snelling was the Executive Vice President of Network for BellSouth Corporation. He was an officer with Southern Bell and BellSouth for many years, reported directly to the president and CEO and had responsibilities for tens of thousands of employees across 9 states." READ MORE
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Excerpt:
"First Impressions. They go a long way. In that initial meeting with another, we intuitively ask ourselves “can I trust this person?” And, can I respect this person?” This is the researched premise of Dr. Amy Cuddy in her 2015 book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges. I recently passed on a potential business engagement because I couldn’t quite answer yes to either of the questions above. "
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Bring character back to the workplace.
Inspiring people who lead with integrity move things forward, garner commitment from others, and are willing to ask the tough questions when necessary. These are the real leaders who generate and sustain cultures of character in organizations.
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TLG Co-founder and Co-Chair
Inc Magazine August 26, 2021 By Phillip Kane
Great article and one we all need to pay attention to!
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Vice President Strategic Services TLG
by Roger Martin
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Roger Martin is the former Dean of the Rotman School of Business (Toronto) and author of eleven business books. He is an expert in thinking models including Integrative Thinking and Design Thinking. His latest book was written before the COVID Pandemic and published last Fall.
The author observes that for 200 years, America’s economic growth was the envy of the world, but that changed after the 1976 Bicentennial. Since then, growth has slowed to a crawl, is more unequal, and this imbalance threatens the very future of democratic capitalism. He blames this on a way of thinking that views the economy as a machine that can be divided into parts, each part optimized, and then added back together to make an optimal whole. For example, businesses are split into functional silos, as is business education. Government is compartmentalized by department and federal, state, and municipal location.
This perfectible-machine model comes at a cost: resilience. Increased efficiency and optimization make systems less adaptable and subject to shocks, as we saw with COVID. The author argues for a new way of thinking where the economy is viewed in more natural terms, as a complex and adaptive system that balances efficiency with resilience. We need to keep in mind the whole while optimizing component parts, relentlessly tweak the system, and as things become more interconnected, install firebreaks and circuit-breakers because tightly coupled systems can fail catastrophically.
The first part of the book diagnoses the problem and the second part provides solutions, with separate chapters for business executives, politicians, educators, and citizens.
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SURVEY
What is the most important factor for employee retention?
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What is the MOST important factor for employee retention?
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Commitment to Health and Well-Being
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Remote or Hybrid Work Offered
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Commitment to Personal Development
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Decency: Thoughts from the Experts.... |
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Carolyn (Lyn) Turknett
TLG Co-founder and Co-Chair
Lyn Turknett knows decency. After all, she wrote a book about it, Decent People, Decent Company along with her husband Bob.
However, decency does not seem to mean what it used to, nor do decent acts stick out as much as they used to. In her latest article, Lyn shares with us how she defines decency, and the importance of lifting each other up.
How do you define decency?
Decency used to be defined as keeping to expected standards of morality and responsible behavior, but I think that most of us now think of it as civility, helpfulness, and a commitment to those around us. I think the term “common decency” is something we should pay attention to, because I think decency is indeed common - much more common than its opposite. We often don’t notice decent behavior - we expect it. We are currently in a time when decency seems less common, but I think it’s primarily civility in public discourse that has declined. Perhaps that’s because it’s easy to be uncivil when the person you are speaking to is not known or not in front of you. I know it’s easier to be impolite in an email than on the phone, and it’s even easier to spew incivility on social media.
Can you share an example of decency that you have recently witnessed?
I see decency all the time - multiple times a day. I was sick last week, and even though I know she has every minute scheduled, Kathy Igou brought me a huge container of homemade chicken soup. Kathy Dowling, who kept shopping at early hours during the pandemic, brought us groceries throughout the pandemic. Barbara Jacobson waters our plants without our asking when we are out of town and shares her garden bounty with everyone.
I wrote a piece a few years ago on why people won’t listen to good news. Why don’t they? Because it’s so boringly common. The news of deaths in Ida’s wake made news last week, but there were thousands of stories, most untold, of neighbors rescuing neighbors, bus drivers sticking to their routes despite the danger, and the Cajun Navy organizing to rescue those in trouble. I decided to write this piece about good news while sitting in Sunday school waiting for the class to begin. I overheard people a few rows up talking about the dearth of good news on television. I thought about the people in the room - all people who brought meals to the sick, helped feed refugees and their children, tutored children after school, and stocked the church food pantry. Their stories are simply too common.
I think the question may be - how do we lift up ordinary decency? How do we help each other realize and celebrate what remarkable, overwhelmingly kind creatures we truly are? We certainly should be telling that story to our children.
TLG Co-founder & Co-chair
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How do you define decency?
To me, a decent person is a good person; a respectable person; a person who holds himself/herself to a higher standard; and a person who does the right thing even when it may not be to his/her advantage. A decent person is also a person of unequivocal integrity and solid values.
Can you share an example of decency that you have recently witnessed?
Instead of providing a recent example, I would point to my recent article on Richard K. (Dick) Snelling, former Executive Vice President of Network for BellSouth Corporation. In over 5 decades of work experience as a leader myself, I’ve never known a better role model for what a decent person and decent leader should be. While he passed away a number of years ago, his legacy of decency and great leadership lives on. In February 2006 at Turknett’s Leadership Character Awards program, Dick Snelling was honored with the only posthumous award ever presented.
Founder & Host Emerita Women in Leadership
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How do you define decency?
An action or gesture that honors or defends another person, and particularly when they are feeling defeated, belittled, or marginalized.
Can you share an example of decency that you have recently witnessed?
A gentleman in an airport terminal stood up for another man who was being berated for not wearing his mask (it looked like he had just finished eating). The man being berated was clearly shaken up, and this gentleman politely but firmly stood by this man and said to the berating person that he was “now out of line, and being rude. His behavior was not appropriate or helpful.” The berating person left in a huff, and the gentleman simply stood by the man (who had put on his mask) and asked if he was now OK; patted him on the shoulder and walked away.
Senior Consultant TLG
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How do you define decency?
One way to describe decency is where HUMILITY intersects with INTEGRITY. When someone is demonstrating decency, they are putting others before themselves while also acting in an honest and moral way. When a leader is operating out of authenticity and integrity and willing to put someone else’s needs in front of theirs, effective servant leadership and decency is able to thrive.
Can you share an example of decency that you have recently witnessed?
Not long ago, a member of my team discovered that we were using software for which the licensing terms had expired, and the company who owns the software wasn’t aware. Covering this licensing gap would be expensive and would prevent her team from doing a key project they wanted to do. Putting both the company’s and the software vendor’s needs in front of hers, she did the decent thing by getting the licensing paid for and cancelling the other project.
Senior Consultant TLG
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How do you define decency?
Decency involves behaving according to responsible and respectful standards of conduct. Decency can be a duty -- an expectation or obligation. Simple examples would be showing up on time for the meeting, giving others a chance to talk by listening well or avoiding gossip. Decency can also be a virtue, going beyond expectations. For example, without being asked, providing a meeting summary by email. Appreciating others and sharing positive feedback.
Leaders should strive to be decent in obligatory ways, right in tune with expectations of business and society. But a burden of ethical leadership also includes finding ways to be decent and virtuous. Doing so helps set an ethical "tone at the top."
Can you share an example of decency that you have recently witnessed?
Recent examples of virtuous leadership to me are companies like Nike or Bojangles, who have gone above and beyond by offering time off for employees to take care of their emotional needs. These are quite stressful times in our country. Virtuous decency like that inspires me, and probably those employees, to keep up the good fight.
Senior Consultant TLG
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How do you define decency?
Decency – doing the right thing - reveals itself in small ways. Pew, Gallup and other researchers have seen a steady decline in trust since surveys began in the 1970’s. Today, less than a third of Americans agree that ‘most people can be trusted’, the lowest level ever recorded. Successive generations are less trusting. Adults 65 and older are twice more likely to trust others than young adults 18 to 29 years old. Fewer than half of Americans know their neighbors and 28% don’t know any of their names.
Trust can be rebuilt through small, decent acts, by giving others the benefit of the doubt, and by helping neighbors, and strangers, too.
Can you share an example of decency that you have recently witnessed?
A friend of mine lives in New Jersey, which was hard hit by the remnants of Hurricane Ida. Within two hours, his street turned into a river and the basement of his apartment building flooded. He noticed a family stranded outside their car in front of his building and did the decent thing. He invited them to wait out the storm in his apartment, lent them some dry clothes, and they ended up staying the night.
VP Strategic Services, TLG
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Resilience Training for Nurses |
Nurses sacrifice so much on a daily basis in order to take care of the patients they serve. Isn't it time we help them to take care of themselves?
Introducing our new self-directed course: Resilience Training for Nurses. This online program, comprised of thirteen highly interactive learning modules, gives nurses the tools to be the best that they can be in both their personal and professional lives. Visit our website to learn more:
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Bounce Back Resilience Program |
Ready to bounce back from burnout, stress, or anxiety? Our in-depth three-session workshop on resilience, led by Resilience Master Viktoria Abelson, will give you an actionable, proven resilience toolkit that will not only help you build your resilience muscle, but help you maintain it in 2021 and beyond. The next workshop begins on October 19th. Register now! |
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Barrier Busters: Women of Character Podcast |
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Bridging the Racial Gap - An Important Conversation About Race
Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum, President Emerita of Spelman College, Best-Selling Author, Clinical Psychologist, Speaker, Lecturer, and Nationally Recognized Expert on the Psychology of Race.
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President Emerita, Spelman College and NY Times Best Selling Author of “Why Do All the Black Kids Sit Together in the Cafeteria, and Other Conversations About Race,” Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum generously shares her expertise on racial identity and the critical importance of holding conversations about race in a racially sensitive context.
Do not miss her decades-long research, wisdom, and teaching on how to bridge the racial gap in this country beginning with our children.
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"My Time of 100% Flexibility: Life 3.0"
Featuring Susan Hitchcock
Women in Leadership Signature Series
Friday, September 24th 8 - 10 am Virtual
.At the end of 2020, Susan exited TLG after almost 3 decades (Life & Career 2.0), preceded by 25 years in corporate leadership (Life & Career 1.0). Moving on to Life 3.0 (Life Beyond Career), Susan has a fresh perspective to share: reflections, renewal, and new ventures. While continuing to lead and serve in the community at large, Susan focuses on her lifelong passion for women’s advancement, leadership, and her support for Agnes Scott, including the Athletic Advisory Council, Outstanding Alumnae Awards Committee Co-Chair & Class Fund Co-Chair (former Alumnae Board President and Trustee). Rumor has it Susan is working on a new writing project, a 2021 version of her “SHEroes Profiles.”
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Host:
Senior TLG Consultant & Women in Leadership Host
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Speaker:
TLG Advisory Board & WIL Founder.
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Introducing NEW Feature: SHEroes |
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Susan Hitchcock Presents... |
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Introducing the Age of SHEroes, founded by Susan Hitchcock, TLG Advisory Board Member & Founder of Women in Leadership. In this series, Susan interviews high-profile women who have inspired and awed generations through their contributions to women's progress and society at large. This time, Susan interviewed Paige Alexander, CEO of the Carter Center in Atlanta. Read on as Paige shares stories of amazing early life experiences, career lessons, insights, and her big hairy audacious goals.
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Leadership in the Moment, with Tim Huff
Featuring Richard Hicks, CEO, Inspiredu
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What does it mean to lead with purpose? In the latest episode of Leadership in the Moment, Senior Consultant Tim Huff welcomes Richard Hicks, CEO, Inspiredu, for a powerful discussion on how to live out purpose-driven leadership and how to align your decisions with that purpose.
Watch the full episode on YouTube!
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Coming in September 2021
TLG Booth & Panel Presentation at SOAHR SHRM-Atlanta
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TLG Panel Topic:
DEI- Fostering Courageous Conversations for Lasting Change in the Workplace
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Mark this date for TLG's LIVE (yes!! in person) session
Tuesday September 28, 2021
at the Cobb Galleria, 2pm-3pm
Ball Room E
TLG Booth #
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