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The current administration has banned critical race theory-based diversity training across federal agencies claiming education around white privilege is anti-American.
As someone who is dedicated to anti-racism work, I believe these conversations on the pervasiveness of systemic racism are necessary in order to dismantle the broken system and are central to our work as HR professionals. I fear what precedent this ban will set.
Thoughts from other HR pros?
https://www.forbes.com/sites/janicegassam/2020/09/05/trump-bans-diversity-training-claiming-its-divisive-anti-american-propaganda/
I’m job hunting in Los Angeles, looking at a variety of titles (HRBP, Sr. HRBP, Manager, Sr. Manager, Director). I have 8 YOE and my SHRM-SCP. I reached my report limit on payscale.com, so I used a variety of other sites to price the roles (BLS, salary.com, Glassdoor, LinkedIn, Robert Half). The problem I’m having is the huge inconsistencies between sources (there are $40k differences between some of the identified medians). (Continued…)
Allow people to order food and expense it
At the start of this back in March/April my company sent everyone a $25 seamless (or Uber eats, I forget which one) credit and it was a nice little surprise
My team did a 2 hour creative woodshop class, virtual, booked through a website call Offsyte! My boss also gave us $50 to buy our own alcohol and then we each took turns teaching each other how to make our favorite drink. We also just did a dumpling making class taught by fellow employees. I thought it was really great that they took the time to put the class and recipes together instead of hiring a professional to teach the class.
My employer divided our TA department into teams and we had a timed quiz/ questions about the company and each other. The top three teams got points towards our portal, that can be exchanged for gift cards.
We have Thursday am coffee sessions for half hour and each week someone has done a presentation on what they did during quarantine. What they’re reading, cooking, movies and podcast, pics of hikes or other activity. When we ran through the whole team, we moved to the next topic- what does your work space look like and share a bit of your typical day. It’s been really fun and has allowed us to get to know one another a little better.
We just did a virtual Gameshow event with Switchboard Games. They were very affordable and SO great to work with! Plus each round they divided us into teams so people were able to interact cross-departmentally! We got excellent feedback from the event and would definitely do it again!
Woe is us, real life is never coming back 🧻❄️🦠
Stay positive 👌🏻
Wine tasting, cooking class, virtual escape room, short breakout sessions in smaller groups talking about different topics (work or non work related), virtual karaoke, design thinking activity to solve someone’s problem (work or non work related), shorter meetings (20 or 45 minutes), “surprise us sessions” with one different employee preparing a session on a topic of their choice each week, virtual book club.
I think it’s important to create virtual experiences that don’t require employees to perform or compete - quizzes, dressing up, small group chats - it’s too much, no one wants to do that stuff. Make it fun, and easy to participate or engage at whatever level is comfortable for each individual. Wine tasting, cooking classes, monthly movie night, weekly dj spot- these have all worked well at my company.
We played Pictionary on Zoom and Scattergories. Both were fun but I feel like people are forced “fun” now
We hosted a timed scavenger hunt for items around the house. Had great feedback. It is not mandatory to play, and we award $25 prizes.
We also have a coffee buddies challenge where you meet randomly with a colleague then create a photoshopped doc with your picture in it on the topic/challenge (e.g. Christmas cards; shared hobbies) then the team posts it on slack channel. Most votes wins bi-weekly prize.
-Icebreaker Qs to kick off meetings
-Randomize a “get to know each other” weekly group lunch (maybe your company can throw a $20~ gift card to seamless/grub hub for participants)?
-virtual team activity (cooking class, paint & sip, online board game(s))
-weekly spotlight a team member’s quarantine side hustle or hobby...
Weekly challenges that allow people to be creative. One week it was art, another it was music, poetry, etc. Leadership encouraged people to include their families in the submissions.
Some folks are building robotic hands for charity. You build a piece then send it to the next person on your team. Once fully assembled it goes to a person in need.
We have done virtual mixology classes through unmuddledbartending.com and it was so great.
We have done trivia on kahoot that we have created, scavenger hunt, just regular happy hours, etc. Excited to see what other people have been doing.
Family feud! Every Thursday for 30 min at the end of the day. Short enough that it won’t be a huge work distraction, plus you can still get work done when your team is on a break. We have satellite town hall meetings on a biweekly basis. Max 30 min. Sometimes even 10 min.