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🌈 As Pride Month is over, I want to reflect on the significance of this important celebration and discuss how companies can actively support the LGBTQ+ community. Pride Month serves as an opportunity for us to promote inclusivity, diversity, and acceptance within our workplaces.   It is crucial for companies to recognize the value of fostering an environment where all employees, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity, can feel safe, respected, and supported. Here are a few actionable steps that organizations can take to promote inclusivity and support their #LGBTQ+ employees throughout the year:   1️. Education and Awareness: Offer comprehensive training programs to increase awareness and understanding of LGBTQ+ issues, including pronoun usage, #allyship, and unconscious biases. This empowers employees to create a more inclusive environment and build a strong foundation of respect and empathy.    2️ Inclusive Policies and Benefits: ensure policies are inclusive. This includes non-discrimination policies, equal opportunity employment statements, and comprehensive healthcare coverage that addresses the specific needs of LGBTQ+ individuals.   3. Business Resource Groups (BRGs): These groups provide a platform for networking, mentorship, and advocacy, creating a sense of community and fostering a culture of belonging within the organization.   4️. External Engagement: Actively participate in Pride events and LGBTQ+ community initiatives. At #IBM we commit to support LGBTQ+ rights not just during #PrideMonth but throughout the year. Together, we can foster a culture of inclusivity that recognizes the inherent value of diversity and ensures that everyone can bring their whole selves to work.   #Inclusion #Diversity #Equality 🏳️🌈   Cawa Younosi Birgit Bohle Julia Bangerth Inga Dransfeld-Haase Markus Fink Dr. Rebecca Koch Sabine Kohleisen Birgit Fauser Stefanie Kurth  

During LGBTQ+ History Month, we recognize and honor the people who have been examples of strength and courage and have paved the way for today’s advances for the LGBTQ+ community. We also celebrate the LGBTQ-owned California businesses and the contributions they’ve made to their local communities and the state! Learn more about LGBTQ+ History Month and how small businesses can create inclusive workspaces using the link here: https://bit.ly/3F1rL3W #LGBTQHistoryMonth #LGBTQOwnedBusiness #EmployABILITYBusinessGrant #SmallBusiness #InclusionMatters #Celebrate #CaliforniaBusiness

This month, we stand proud and united to commemorate Pride Month, a celebration of love, diversity, acceptance, and self-expression. This is not just a time to acknowledge the struggles and victories of the LGBTQ+ community but also to reflect on the importance of creating a more inclusive and empathetic society. As we celebrate Pride, let us also remember the importance of allyship. Being an ally means supporting and standing up for the rights of those who identify as LGBTQ+. It means creating safe spaces at work and in our communities where everyone can be their authentic selves. It requires constant learning, understanding, and committing to equality and justice. This Pride month—and all year round—let's strive to spread love, promote inclusivity, and uplift each other. Because when one of us succeeds, we all do. How are you celebrating Pride month and promoting inclusivity in your community? #PrideMonth #Inclusivity #Allyship

This #PrideMonth, recruitment experts David Allen and Rose Boyer teamed up with our LGBTQ+ employee resource group Prism to compile a list of four ways you can show up as an ally at work. How are you helping foster acceptance and belonging for all in your workplace? 🌈 #LGBTQally #PrideatWork

This #PrideMonth, recruitment experts David Allen and Rose Boyer teamed up with our LGBTQ+ employee resource group Prism to compile a list of four ways you can show up as an ally at work. How are you helping foster acceptance and belonging for all in your workplace? 🌈 #LGBTQally #PrideatWork

A time to celebrate with, advocate for, listen to and show absolute support of our wonderfully diverse LGBTI+ communities and reflect on how we can all be the change we want to see in the world. We've taken some decent strides towards equality in recent years. That being said, we still live in a world where Faith-based schools can LEGALLY expel and sack LGBTQ students and teachers respectively; where elite sportspeople in major codes don't feel safe being 'out'; and where sickening violence and displays of hatred can still bubble to the surface as they did just a few short months ago in Melbourne and Sydney... there is still a very long way for us to go. It is great to see all the progressive organisations here on LinkedIn making pride pledges, implementing inclusion programs, rainbowing their logos, encouraging the use of gender neutral language and respecting each other's pronouns. Descrimination in (almost...) all its forms is illegal...hopefully the Attorney General's review of Faith-based schools will bear fruit... but laws are the effect, not the cause of social change. The cause can start with a simple little thing like rainbowing your logo, engaging in a conversation and making your employees and colleagues feel comfortable to bring their whole selves to work. #diversityequityandinclusion #prideatwork #prideisnotjustforamonth

Happy Pride Month!! As a labor union that represents over 1,500 members, SLOCEA is committed to supporting & advocating for each of them, including those who are part of the LGBTQ+ community. To learn more about the labor movement’s connection to the LGBTQ+ community, check out the article on our blog written by SLOCEA labor rep, Brooke Daphne!

This #PrideMonth, recruitment experts David Allen and Rose Boyer teamed up with our LGBTQ+ employee resource group Prism to compile a list of four ways you can show up as an ally at work. How are you helping foster acceptance and belonging for all in your workplace? 🌈 #LGBTQally #PrideatWork

What do #diversity and #inclusion have to do with business? 🌈 Besides being a crucial social responsibility, inclusive workplaces benefit from a variety of viewpoints, leading to more informed decisions and a better understanding of diverse customer needs. 🎯 A bonus: When people feel included, they are more engaged, motivated, and loyal. Sounds like a win-win to me! How do you see diversity and inclusion reflected in your workplace? ✨

I love that we support and celebrate inclusiveness and diversity, but honestly, I have to speak from my perspective as a CEO. I often wonder if it's me, the person, or my mindset as a Leader and a CEO. I believe the only time we will be inclusive is when no one has to wave a flag or wear a badge or a wristband. Same for disabilities, ethnicity, or colour. People talk crap even when wanting not to... 'Oh, I don't see colour...' said a mate of mine recently. 'Well, get an eye test, pal; he is as black as the Ace of Spades, ' I replied. Oh no, that's not what I meant said he. Yes, it wasn't, but why do you even have to state that? Why does it need to be said? Just be his mate. I guess what I am trying, and probably failing and inviting a load of snowflakes to pile in, is people are people. When we get to a stage where none of this is a subject matter, that is what I call inclusive. As for diversity, well, God decided that already. What's it got to do with us? There are some things I am well known for by my friends and family. One is that I have absolutely no 'Gay-Dar'. One of my good pals from past work life is now a woman, and considering our personal backgrounds, I find it extremely difficult to get my head around but equally not at all difficult to accept. It's her life; she can do what she likes that makes her happy. I couldn't give a monkey's what she chooses to do; she's still the same person as when I first knew her, apart from the blindingly obvious and having a far less deep voice. I think the longer this need to recognise everyone with their own special symbols and the like, actually the further away we get from where people aspire to be. If someone is Gay, Bi-, Straight whatever, It doesn't occur to me at all, and I am equally not the slightest bit bothered when I become aware of it. What I care about is simple. In work, are you a good colleague, a grafter who is aware that the customer pays us all and values them? In my social life, are you good company, do we share values and interests, or are you really annoying or boring? Those things are the only things that matter, or should matter. When we can take pride in not needing symbols or events like pride flag and month then and only then in my humble opinion do I reckon we have cracked it. Until then though, Happy Pride Month to everyone who feels represented and that it gives them belief they can live happily and openly. I hope I am wrong and that actually it is empowering and breaking down barriers without what I like to call 'Idiots' who haven't got the brains they were born with being like scared rabbits towards anyone who is different from them. Until then, please call out all 'Idiots' instead of looking at your feet or looking away. Failing to discourage, by its very definition, lacks courage, and that's the only difference; people of Pride Month have had to show courage; the least you can do is make that inclusive by showing your own where they do get abused by the Idiots.