News from WDLS Boston 2010

Some food for thoughts from high ranking panellists to ensure  engagement, productivity and innovation in a modern working environment.

• Find out what is going on in your working environment/company
• Have a diversity vision
• Be able to connect with the world
• Benchmark where you and your organization are, find out where you are going to and where we want to be
• Know what you expect from leaders and colleagues and see to it that you are on the right path, and do this on a regular basis
• Adopt a generation-wise approach by finding out how people change in your company over the years
• Find out how a good leader should look like

How inclusive is your working environment? Here are some guarding questions

• What are the critical norms a global company? How should it look at?
• How are you and your organization dealing with cultural norms? 
• How inclusive is the thinking about cultural diversity in a culturally inclusive environment?
• What tools do we offer for customer support and how does this transform into visible benefits?
• How do we treat our customers in a globalised marketplace and in different environments? 
• And with different backgrounds and cultures?

some thoughtful perceptions of diversity!

Diversity is .....

• like finding an unexpected profit, like the money you can find on the sidewalk. 
• It is a way to drive revenue and profit through identifying untapped opportunities
• having the right to be different!
• finding ways to drive innovation and profitability
• customising engagement for different employees, find the right tools, being technically competitive, creating good working environments and management development strategies.
• the making of and consideration of differences
• breaking through the glass ceiling not embracing or caressing it
• having the right to be different (Norbert Pauser, member of the Austrian delegation)

Claudia Blass WDLS-EU Assistant