We know, by now, that listening capabilities and digital literacy are essential attributes to help leaders bring their employees together.
Please join in on the 2nd part of our video interview series where Sabine Weishaupt shares examples that facilitate employee growth and examples that Deutsche Telekom has been implementing to empower their employees to help them work together within teams and produce better results.
As part of PeopleSmart’s focus around Leading Into the Future, in partnership with The Business Transformation Network (The BTN), we are eager to bring you Sabine Weishaupt (Chapter Lead Future Leadership Design at Deutsche Telekom).
Sabine is passionate about empowering, encouraging and energising people to grow for success and happiness. In her current role she a team of leadership development, learning and transformation consultants spread over 7 countries and with a broad range of backgrounds from engineering to sales to HR.
Sabine joins this Leading Into The Future series, to share some of the challenges and opportunities for the hybrid leaders.
One of the first topics that Sabine mentions is the important role of certain set of skills that the digital leader needs to have, as opposed to an in-person leader. Sabine highlights the importance of listening capabilities and digital literacy as essentials attributes to help leaders bring their employees together and shares examples that facilitate employee growth.
Sabine also shares a few examples of what Deutsche Telekom has been implementing to empower their employees to help them work better within teams.
Continuing PeopleSmart’s focus on Diversity and Inclusion for the second quarter of 2021 we heard more from Charlotte Forsyth, Chief People Officer at WorldRemit.
Strength in Diversity & Inclusion with Charlotte Forsyth (Part 2) from Business Transformation Network on Vimeo.
“What leadership behaviours do employees need to see to truly believe in an inclusive culture?” Charlotte says leaders must recognize that different groups have different experiences. She has been in many meetings designed to promote women to be leaders in which the majority group, white male leaders, has been completely absent! Leaders should also recognize the differences within each group. Charlotte herself is a mum with kids but a single woman from the LGBQ community may have a very different experience. To ascertain which leadership behaviours mattered most, employees were invited to provide qualitative responses to the question “What kind of culture currently prevails and what’s needed for the future?”
“How are D&I efforts measured?” World Remit is an international organization so they use their employee data and people’s feedback from around the world to look at to what degree groups are represented well, poorly or not at all. Charlotte is proud to say that in November 2020 an inclusion survey asking the question “Am I treated with respect regardless of who I am and where I come from?” came in second highest as a global metric for World Remit.
The third question was “How has your D&I agenda evolved through 2020 and beyond?” and Charlotte’s response highlighted the increased need to address mental health and well being. The institution of a quarterly ‘Recharge’ day, launched in August 2020, has landed really well and signals to everyone at World Remit how important the company takes mental health.
At PeopleSmart ‘Strength in Diversity and Inclusion’ is more than just the ‘topic du jour’. It is one of our core values and central to the way we are constituted and how we act as an organization. With a diversity of experienced consultants spread across the globe we embrace the spectrum of genders, cultures and backgrounds. This allows us to serve our international clients in a way that suits the constituents of their various populations. Our specialist consultants bring deep experience and knowledge of Diversity and Inclusion to our clients’ need for solutions in this critical aspect of the contemporary business world.
As part of PeopleSmart’s focus on Diversity and Inclusion for the second quarter of 2021 we were eager to hear from Charlotte Forsyth, Chief People Officer at WorldRemit.
Strength in Diversity & Inclusion with Charlotte Forsyth (Part 1) from Business Transformation Network on Vimeo.
Charlotte is passionate about ‘What makes a comfortable place for someone to work in’. She believes that Diversity means nothing without Inclusion. You can look at the stats to achieve parity in how the workforce is composed but how someone feels is the true measure of Inclusion. Are people truly valued and able to bring their whole selves to work?
When Charlotte was at Facebook, to her delight she came across this definition: Diversity is when someone is invited to the party, Inclusion is being asked to dance, and Belonging is when they play your favorite song!
In this interview Charlotte answers the question “Can technology be the enabler for employees to feel comfortable discussing well being?” by giving examples of surveys that have created an ‘engagement index’ and how these data can help create ‘engagement plans’ and have prompted the piloting of an “Always On” channel for employees to confidentially share their concerns and stay connected.
She goes on to talk about the various ways employees can be empowered to establish their own support networks through resilience trainings, cookery and fitness classes, quizzes and scavenger hunts. Oh, and cocktail hours! Now Charlotte says they are looking for ways to maintain the momentum of post lockdown including creating opportunities for ‘safe space’ sharing for people of color, the disabled and other minority groups.
At PeopleSmart ‘Strength in Diversity and Inclusion’ is more than just the ‘topic du jour’. It is one of our core values and central to the way we are constituted and how we act as an organization. With a diversity of experienced consultants spread across the globe we embrace the spectrum of genders, cultures and backgrounds. This allows us to serve our international clients in a way that suits the constituents of their various populations. Our specialist consultants bring deep experience and knowledge of Diversity and Inclusion to our clients’ need for solutions in this critical aspect of the contemporary business world.
