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The National Centre for Diversity details its mission as being “to encourage and enable organisations to adopt and develop behaviours and practices which promote inclusion, equality, diversity and achievement.”
They continue, “By understanding the different needs of your stakeholders whether they are employees or customers, or …

Anyone who read my piece a few issues ago, on quotas, will understand my position on forced discrimination and so may be able to predict my starting position, regarding preferential treatment for the prioritised funding of women-led businesses.
This does not mean that I am against …

There is much written and discussed about how creative people “become” creative. Is it nature? Is it nurture? Is it effort or genius? Well I am no psychological or behavioural specialist and I bow deferentially to their collective greater knowledge so this is a personal …

According to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
You probably already know that we change our living selves every few months or so. Every cell in our body, brain, skin, organs, and bones, is …

Networking
Definitions
making use of meetings with other people involved in the same kind of work, in order to share information, help each other etc.
Networking, as described in the above definition, requires interaction with an extended group of people and this implies those outside of your normal …

The last few months have seen a significant change in the direction of my business projects. The vast majority nowadays are working with community projects, social enterprises and socially-focused academic institutions.
In many of these projects I am discussing and developing social return on investment models. …