Blog posts from Marion

In the last couple of decades, the workplace has become a lot safer and more intolerant to bad behavior such as discrimination, abuse, harassment etc. This is an on-going focus now in most companies. Much progress has been made, much progress is to come. 

There’s a clear case of Covid-fatigue settling amongst the workforce. The tips and best practices we learned and used during the first outbreak of Covid and confinement in March-May are no longer ‘cutting it’. They were mostly quick-fixes, designed to help us make it through a rough time, like a plaster on what turns out to be a serious infection!  Leaders now need to dig much deeper and have authentic and non-judgmental conversations with their team members in order to figure out how to keep them engaged throughout the Winter as Covid-novelty wears off and Christmas celebrations are at risk. 

The lockdown is on, in many countries around the globe. Most people who can, work from home. Most people who can, manage people who work from home!

In this time of uncertainty and mass redundancies, you’d expect everyone to hang on to their job like D. Trump to his bronzer. It is not so.

Everyone knows “the Board” or “BOD” and who they are: Professionals with great experience, wise people who’ve seen it all, business owners and leaders, industry experts with a far-reaching reputation...

Diversity in the work place means three things to most people: (1) gender, (2) ethnical background, (3) sexual orientation. The problem is that it means three things ONLY. I see diversity as a far more reaching topic.

I started being really interested in diversity when I was working in the UK, furthermore when I worked for San Francisco headquartered companies. Although I worked for very different companies, I noticed that being surrounded by people who thought in a similar way, liked the same things, had pretty much the same photos on their desks and used the same vocabulary, made me uncomfortable. Sure enough, I was surrounded by men and women, gays and straights, and people of various ethical origins, but something was not resonating.

Disabilities: Why is there so little focus on welcoming people with disabilities in the workplace? Granted, this is not about attracting a specific set of attributes (I don’t think that being in a wheelchair or being blind makes you more or less intelligent or collaborative), this is about one of the most basic duties that defines us as human beings: Care for the weaker one.